Mackie tries it again...

frank - what do you mean?  are you saying the previous onyx stuff was crap?  (serious question)

One million variations of the same preamps and electrical parts.

Taco Bell

you'd think they wouldn't let their name get tarnished.  they should have farmed out the stuff they couldn't do in-house well, like drivers and A/D conversion.  the rest of it should have been a piece of cake for them.

Beagle


you'd think they wouldn't let their name get tarnished.  they should have farmed out the stuff they couldn't do in-house well, like drivers and A/D conversion.  the rest of it should have been a piece of cake for them.

They tried both and failed. They tried in-house then let someone else do it, then brought it back in house.  They just can't seem to keep focused. It also takes a huge commitment and years of work to become one of the known good brands and I don't think they have the resources or time to do that now... it's just too late.  They would never sell enough interfaces to keep that kind of development staff.

Audio interfaces live a die by driver support and even if you make the coolest hardware in the world it won't help. The best idea they ever had was making the computer interface separate from the mixer so it could be replaced. But to date there hasn't been an upgrade or second generation of those cards. Can you imagine a USB3 card for the Onyx mixers with Lynx converters ? or your choice of lower cost converters.  It's a cool thought but it's one of those things that just won't ever happen.

Mackie has some good stuff, the studio monitors are a good example but they have many more misses then hits. That company will go down in history as having a chance to have it all and blew it.

mike_mccue


WHAT????? No USB 3.0????

It hardly matters, they can't even get firewire right. Unless USB3 is way easier they will not be able to figure it out.

My Onyx 1640 still works great. Gets used all the time.  I guess I'm one of the lucky ones.  I've been useing it with two versions of sonar with the same driver off mackie's web site that I downloaded when I bought it.   :)   I like my Onyx mixer enough to buy another one.   I have a Alesis HD24 so I'm thinking about getting a 24channel Onyx  to use with my HD24.   Do you guys think the Onyx mixer in it's self is crap ?  I can get a killer price on a new one right now.

Tim

I'm happy with my Onyx satellite...but I was fortunate to get 3rd party drivers for it while they were still available.

 
Wow. I never heard of the 3rd party drivers that you say were available for the Satellite. I also have the Satelite, but I gave up on using it as a audio interface because the drivers just didn't help the unit operate good enough for me.
 
Man I would be very grateful if you could send me the 3rd party driver package you are referring to. My email is thomasabarnes(at)yahoo(dot)com.:)

Hi Ron:

I see. Thanks for the reply.

I have a 1640 Onyx fire wire board as well, and it works great with Sonar and will Logic on the Mac platform. In fact I am in the process of listing it for sale and upgrading to the new Onyx-i series, to get some of the new features.

TB

I have an onyx board without the fw   Great board. Great pres and eq.