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Old 4th August 2012   #1
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from Presonus to M-Audio Profire 610 ?

I currently use Presonus StudioLive 16.4.2 (I use it for live shows and since it is also an audio interface I use it in the studio).

Since M-Audio Profire 610 is such a low latency, (and Presonus such a high latency) I'm thinking of getting Profire610 (or maybe 2626 or even mbox 3), the latency is very close to RME but profire is about 7 times cheaper.

I mostly use VSTi, but I record live instruments and vocals sometimes, are the preamps really much worse than presonus?

I might get a good preamp to avoid m-audio's pres.

I used to own M-audio 1010lt, and the drivers was very bad, the latency was alright if I remember correctly but the it had drop outs, sometimes I had to restart cubase to get it working, my friend still uses 1010lt and has same problems, so I'm a bit worried about m-audio's drivers. are the drivers stable now? (I'm very happy with presonus driver stability
but not latency)
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I think the latency has more to do with your computer than the interface. I've use a profire 610 for a few years, when I was on a G5 with plenty of cpu/hard drive space it was great; now on a macbook the latency is so bad I can't record anything without having the input channel on mute.
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I think the latency has more to do with your computer than the interface. I've use a profire 610 for a few years, when I was on a G5 with plenty of cpu/hard drive space it was great; now on a macbook the latency is so bad I can't record anything without having the input channel on mute.
I'm gonna use it 98% of the time on win7 64bit; Asus p6t; i7-920; 8gb ram.

I'm still gonna use MacBookPro with StudioLive for recording Live Events
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How much difference is there in preamps between presonus studiolive and Profire 610?
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I'm kind of confused. In what way are you experiencing latency? And how would going from a studiolive to the profire help? That's a big jump from big to small. I own the same mixing board, and use a dual core macbook pro with 4 gigs of ram and I experience no latency really, even recording all inputs. I bought it for the sole purpose of recording live shows and I used it for album based "studio" projects without complaints.
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How much difference is there in preamps between presonus studiolive and Profire 610?
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Are you saying that part of your tracks are presonus or 610 pres or lines .. Be complete with your post dammit
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Profire 610 arrived today, oh boy, m-audio still havent learned how to write software. I spent half a day just installing the driver, and the driver thar worked is the one fir win7 sp1, and my system is pre-sp1

The worst of all is that its not possible to change buffer when cubase or protools is open..

Who works at m-audio? Those that dropped out of college?
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The worst of all is that its not possible to change buffer when cubase or protools is open..
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I haven't trusted MAudio drivers since bad experiences with the MobilePre, and then Firewire410. (410 was much better than MobilePre, but still occasional weird issues).

Echo Audiofire was the right choice for me. These are some seriously stable drivers..... excellent conversion for the price. Only second to RME. I wouldn't put MAudio and RME in the same sentence... that's blasphemy.
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Well, without any prejudices, my Profire' OS X drivers are fine and stable.
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That's it, I've had enough with these cheap sound cards,
especially with the worst of all: M-Audio.

Ordered RME BabyFace (Blue). Should be here next week.
will see if it is really as good as advertised and reviewed.
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Rme babyface arrived today. This soundcard is just awesome! Stable drivers, clear converters, low-latency. Mixer is nice.

If i'd compare rme to m-audio, m-audio profire 610 should cost $20. Rme babyface deserves to cost whats it is priced at now if not higher.

The only other thing left to test in babyface is rme's claimed low jitter clock sync
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