[Mijoo08]

Hi
I started out with 2 Firestudios because at the time (Dec.2007) Presonus' manual said you could daisy-chain 2 units together via Firewire. False.
Couldn't lightpipe em' together, either. Maybe with the newer drivers.
TechSupport told me my computer was bad, that I couldn't possibly run 16 tracks on a laptop, let alone with Windows Media Edition. False.
Jon helped me clear my registry and re-try doing forward and backward firmware updates.
I never lived through ADAT, and the manual also says that when you are working 24-bit 48KHz that you hook up one optical cable, but you have to use 2, because one carries the signal and the other the timing. You can't use any of the channels from the extra unit. No one in a year at Presonus told me to be sure to do that, which meant I had traded a Firestudio for a Digimax FS, and couldn't record a single track with the Digimax for close to a year. Curious.
I admit to being relatively new to all this, but I can sure read directions and tell when they aren't working. I tried another optical cable to see if it was bad, didn't work, so I plugged the old one into the loop and "boom", it synched right up.
I've been on the phone with Presonus tech support about 64-bit drivers for 16 months+. I know others have, too, for 18 months or more. I've posted to get advice on their forum when things weren't working, and most of it didn't work or was unnecessary.
It took close to 3 1/2 months to get the "plug-in suite" registered and functioning.
They included Cubase LE with a free Faderport, which is awesome!
But Guess What?
The Faderport is "worth $150", but the Faderport only works with the next level of Cubase on up, starting at an upgrade price of $200!
I notice that focusrite has 2 comparable units, which I am going to check into, because they look like they may be more along the line of what I need.
Focusrite has improved the routing in their units and they are offering something similar for a lower price. Little-bit less heavy duty.
BUT the main thing is they are offering 64-bit drivers for XP and Vista.
Is Windows off to another OS yet? I haven't even been able to keep up. But i"m having a 64-bit tower built, and I'm sick of waiting 16+ months.
Any recommendations, drawbacks, plusses to the Saffire Pro 40 and the Liquid Saffire 56?
Oh, yeah, and by the way, when I went back to the Presonus forum today, apparently I've been erased as a person in their database. My posts are still there under my same name as here. But I don't exist anymore to them.
Peace. Jw