what's up with hw driver developement ?
Hi guys,
I am thinking that it might be the time to change and renew part of my studio hw. I am now using a digital mixer (beringher ddx3216) as the center of it. I plug eveything there : The adat out of my pc, mic's, my CD player, POD, sansamp, synths, modules, intruments in general, etc.
I may like to move to a mixerless aproach, with a firewire hw solution with DSP that provides a 8/10/12/16 inputs and a software mixer that will allow me to send monitor mixes, patch an internal effect or insert an external reverb, etc. You get the idea, don't you ?
Ok, now... MOST of the reports and reviews I've read about this type of HW (Focusrite, mackie onyx, Alesis Multimix, Yamaha N12, TcElectronic's Studio Konnekt, Motu...) say the drivers are crap, or that the driver developement is slow, untrustable, uncertain or that they just don't work with sonar... What's going on ? I want to choose a product but they all have bad reviews !!!! Are all these devices too "new" ?