Mackie ONYX FireWire I/O Card

Mackie ONYX FireWire I/O Card

by Mackie
5.0
Price:  $499.99 Buy from Amazon.com
 

Product Description

The Onyx FireWire I/O Card is a true first. This 24-bit/96k card bridges the gap between Mackie's flagship Onyx analog mixers and a Mac or PC, giving musicians and engineers a great-sounding and very efficient way to go from analog to digital--without the need for separate converter boxes or interfaces. User-installable 24-bit/96kHz FireWire I/O Card for Mackie's flagship Onyx Series analog mixers Allows streaming of 12 or 16 independent channels of audio, plus a stereo mix, directly from mixer to Mac or PC Monitors two channels of audio from computer via mixer's Control Room/Phones section Allows "daisy chaining" two mixers together, providing additional channels of audio into computer FireWire technology provides monitoring of audio software and plug-ins with no noticeable latency Turns any Onyx mixer into a great-sounding, very convenient audio interface to the digital world Works with any Windows XP ASIO/WDM host (Cubase, Sonar, Live, Tracktion, etc.) or any Mac OS X.3 Core Audio host (Logic, Digital Performer, Cubase, Tracktion, etc.) Includes full version of Tracktion Audio and MIDI Production Software      

Reviews

5.0 Works Great
I recently bought a Mackie ONYX FireWire I/O Card and Mackie Onyx 1220 12-Channel Mixer. They replaced my DMAN 2044 interfaces I was using. (I had 3 cards for 12-in, but they did not sync up very well and had a high noise floor....) The mixer has nice transparent preamps. I am using a Behringer board for the other 8 preamps (not very portable at the moment). The firewire card works great - I can record all 12 inputs with minimal latency and no dropouts/static, my dynamic range has increased considerably. I am running it all on an underpowered computer (K6 900MHz) and it works great. Setup was simple - the autorun.exe (on the install cd) did not want to run, but you can install the drivers by going into the driver folder and running setup.exe. I have not had any problems with the software/drivers, I am even using a fairly cheap CompUSA firewire card.

I recommend this mixer/firewire combo for any project studio and with additional mic preamps it would be great for mobile recording.

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