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2008/11/01 16:31:00 (permalink)

Need help deciding

I'm getting ready to expand to a larger DAW interface and i have it down to 2 choices. The first one is an alesis io-26 with 8 mic inputs. I already have an io-14 with only 4 mic inputs, i play drums and have expanded past what 4 inputs will cover. The other one is the. M-Audio ProFire 2626. I will be using it between a desktop running xp and a laptop running vista premium. I have heard the profire has vista problems, has this been fixed or updated. I'm kind of leaning towards the profire but if there is problems with vista i will have no problem going with the alesis.

Or if you can suggest anything within that price range as well that will be great.

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    RE: Need help deciding 2008/11/01 17:34:57 (permalink)
    My suggestion would be to a look at the Motu 8pre. Motu has known good Vista drivers and is expandable via the adat I/O for to upto 16 inputs. I think its far better than both of the ones your contemplating.

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    RE: Need help deciding 2008/11/02 02:35:23 (permalink)
    I also found it on zzsounds and they will let you make payments after shipping....this is good news!!

     
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    Re: RE: Need help deciding 2010/10/10 11:43:44 (permalink)
    Old post i know but no reason starting another one.

    I still have the io-26 and it has been good to me and i don't want to get rid of it.I have finally decided on the firestudio tube. I'm using ASIO drivers and know you can not run two interfaces with it but if i switch to ASIO for all or WDM is it possible to use both of them together. The firestudio tube is just enough(10 pre's) for me but i would like to be able to have the extra 8 from the Alesis just in case.

    Can this be done???

     
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    Re: RE: Need help deciding 2010/10/11 11:34:24 (permalink)
    It can be done using WDM drivers but I would expect lots of glitches.
    If your interfaces support ADAT or S/PIDIF, that would be the way to do it.

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    Re: RE: Need help deciding 2010/10/11 14:22:15 (permalink)
    ghostnotes - you posted the same question on the Sonar forum and I answered you there with my thoughts on it.  I agree with sonico here, with a little caveat:  you can also do it with WORDCLOCK if you have 2 devices, regardless of the type/mfg, etc if they both have wordclock inputs and you have a wordclock to drive them.

    but without ADAT or wordclock (or SPDIF, but that's only 2 channels) you can't sync them together.  and it's not just a matter of lining them up - they will drift over time and become further apart the longer the recording - starting out together.  so you can't just "line them up" because they're going to give you different lengths.

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