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bdlabs · 4th March 2008

I recently got an Onyx 1640 with the FW option card. The board is fine, and the preamps sound great as advertised. But the FW card is another story. Physically it looks cheap... but the worst part is the driver it ships with. Awful noises from clock sync issues, ASIO drop outs, you name. Completely unusable for recording. So I got the CEntrance Ideal Driver and that helped somewhat. I could get the Onyx to record and playback without too many glitches.... but I had to push out the latency a lot. And everytime I started up the computer I had to do a special reset command to the Onyx. So I just sent the whole thing back to Mackie and I'm gonna get the 1200F... hopefully that goes better.
I also use a Digi 002 and that has always been stable for me.

4th March 2008	#52
bdlabs Gear interested Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Boston, MA Posts: 13	Onyx FW unreliable I recently got an Onyx 1640 with the FW option card. The board is fine, and the preamps sound great as advertised. But the FW card is another story. Physically it looks cheap... but the worst part is the driver it ships with. Awful noises from clock sync issues, ASIO drop outs, you name. Completely unusable for recording. So I got the CEntrance Ideal Driver and that helped somewhat. I could get the Onyx to record and playback without too many glitches.... but I had to push out the latency a lot. And everytime I started up the computer I had to do a special reset command to the Onyx. So I just sent the whole thing back to Mackie and I'm gonna get the 1200F... hopefully that goes better. I also use a Digi 002 and that has always been stable for me.