My little Behringer mixer died after only a few years of service. 
So as I would never buy that brand again I'm looking at the Alen & Heath Zed line up. 
They all seem to come with a USB interface built in.

 What I find not appealing is there are no drivers available on the web site? 
They come packaged with Sonar LE so one would assume they will work with Sonar. 

?Question?  is any body else using one of these mixers as an audio interface without issues? 

I would only use it for live recording of audio. I would not bother using it as my DAW, I know better than that. 

I have used a ZED-R16 for 3 years and love it.  The interface is firewire not USB.  It also works as a MIDI controller also via firewire.  It acts as my sound card for all applications and can record up to 16 channels of separate audio to Sonar.

Yes I'm aware of the one Firewire product they make that actually has drivers. That was the only "driver" on the support web site. That's an interesting product but not what I need. I need small and simple. 

I found out the USB models uses Windows Legacy drivers which we all know will not work properly with Sonar. Funny they include Sonar with the mixer.  

I guess it will record directly into Wave Lab which is useful. And I could use it to play my backing tracks from the laptop instead of using the cheesy mini jack cable. 

+loads on the ZED-R16. The USB are just stereo pair in/out but that is reflected in the price difference.

Those Mixers are only 16bit that's what bothers me

What's the real life lowest round trip latency that you can get on a ZED mixer?

It seems, to me, like an excellent form factor.

Can you run a 64bit sample buffer or maybe smaller while tracking all of the inputs at 24 bit depth?


best regards,
mike

David4455


Those Mixers are only 16bit that's what bothers me

My ZED_R16 is 24 bit to 96kHZ.  I use 48 kHz.

David4455


Those Mixers are only 16bit that's what bothers me

The ZED-R16 is a completely different beast to the rest of the ZED range, but that is reflected in the price.

There I changed the thread title to USB ZED drivers. 

So far no body has any experience with these USB boards. Oh well, that's a sign in it's self. I'm looking a little closer at the Mackie and Yamaha's as at least I know those brands last a little more than 4 years. 
I have little experience with A&H, for all I know they are made in the same factory as Behringer....

I took the little Behringer apart last night to see if I could replace the faders...No way, the boards are not what you call repairable.  

I would never put A&H and Behringer in the same class but that's a whole new thread.  Good luck with the interface.