[RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?

[Chris Belle]

yeh patrick your right, you can route firewire to your aux sends and also 
your sub mixes on the 1640i and some on the lesser units too but you only 
get two comming back.

I too use more than one sound card, I have a delta44 and the realtek all 
tied to the mackie, and also a dedicated speech synth, the mackie has a nice 
feature on one of it's returns for monitoring that doesn't get sent to the 
main mix so it's great to run speech through the board, still send 6 mixes 
to my guys in the studio feedinga headphone amp, and they don't have to hear 
a thing without wasting an aux send.

YOu can press the firewire button and use all 6 of your aux sends to power 
effects inside the daw like you would external effect boxes, but your inputs 
are all parse out how ever you set the board up, you have 16, so if you use 
your subs on firewire you take up 5 through 9 and if you use your firewire 
for powering effects you take up 9 through 14.

So it depends on how you want to configure it, but this is all done with a 
button press.

Absolutely no menus.

I might wish for the talk back to have a foot switch, and to be able to 
descretely assign only a single aux send or sub mix to firewire at once 
instead of athe whole group, but hey, compromises have to be made for this 
price point, for 15 hundred, you get a hell of a lot of board.

I wish I could get my hands on a presonus studio live like Patric has and 
see the diferences in operation.

Patrick, what do you mean the presonus has more i/o, do you mean the onboard 
effects, or can you do more firewire routing with alternate does it have 
more aux sends than 6 or more sub mixes than 4 because that's what the 
mackie has?


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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Patrick Perdue" <patrick at pdaudio.net>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at reaaccess.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: [RWP] New audio gear any thoughts?


>I have a Presonus StudioLive 16.4.2, which offers a little more in terms of 
>I/O from and to firewire than does the Mackie Onyx 1640I, and still find 
>myself using another dedicated audio interface for things, in my case, the 
>Focusrite Saffire Pro14, mostly for it's clean playback and SP/dif input 
>capability. I want to occasionally run things digitally, and my Presonus 
>board has no such inputs.
>
> I think even if I had a 1640I, I'd still keep another interface around. 
> Those Mackies are nice boards. The biggest difference between anything 
> smaller than the 1640I is the number of channels and buses. None of the 
> smaller boards have the fun channel returns found in the 1640I. I wish the 
> 1220I did, at least. Oh well.
>
>
> On 11/8/2012 10:01 AM, Kerry Hoath wrote:
>> I'm considering one of the Mackie 8 or 12 channel mixers the 820i or the
>> 1220i.
>>
>> The 1640I is like $2000 and i'm not sure if I need something that 
>> complex.
>> I want to record singing with a backing track, and change levels for
>> music and voice. I could apply affects but probably better to apply them
>> in software later the price jump from the 1220 to the 1640i is rather
>> large.
>> I'm also looking at getting an interface for the pc, probably the tascam
>> as it seems rather analog and behaves well.
>> The presonus audiobox seems cool but if Ihave a 8-12 channel mixer
>> there's no point having all that i/o on the audio box?
>>
>> Steff was always battling with volumes on ventrillo although that might
>> be Ventrillo's fault.
>>
>> regards, Kerry.
>>
>> On 5/11/2012 10:41 PM, Chris Belle wrote:
>>> Carey, if you want the best experience with an accessible interface,
>>> then my recommendation is with any of the mackie onyx i series mixers.
>>>
>>> the little 820i clocks in at 4 hundred dollars, but there are no
>>> menus, and you get a lot of i-o and routing hands on.
>>>
>>
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