Audio Interface: Mackie Onyx 1640 with Firewire - How good is it?

Hey,
I was about to buy a RME Fireface 800 as my Audio Interface, but then checking the Mackie HR824 Monitors (first i wanted to buy the Genelec 8030) i discovered the Onyx 1640 with Firewire, which of course is not a new product.
So, the dealer told me that the PreAmps and quality overall of the Onyx1640 is almost the same to the RME Fireface800, being the Fireface slightly superior.
Now the great thing is that IF the Onyx is that good, i could shot 2 ducks with the same bullet because with that Mixer/AudioInterface, besides using it for recordings, I could rehearsal with my band as well in my "studio"... and even record some jam sessions.
BUT the question is, how good is the Onys 1640 really in comparison to the e.g. RME Fireface 800 ??
Has anybody experience with the Onyx ?
For recording I would set a MindPrint MKII between the AudioInterface and Mic for voices.
Thanks in advance for your opinion/advice!
Cheers!

Now the great thing is that IF the Onyx is that good,
i could shot 2 ducks with the same bullet because
with that Mixer/AudioInterface, besides using it for
recordings, I could rehearsal with my band as well
in my "studio"... and even record some jam sessions.
in advance for your opinion/advice!
Cheers!
I cannot comment on the Onyx though I just wanted to let
you know that the FF800 can be used as a stand alone unit
and does not need a computer. You could set up a preset
to do any configuation you need for any situation. I have mine
in a mounted in a portable rack case. Of course paired with
MacBook Pro you would be a formidable portable solution.

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May I draw your attention to the fact that I didn't took any action to mend anything (except permission repair). So what has happened, I ask myself? Has the ML OS the power to heal itself? I'm truly puzzled.
Until further notice: on this MacPro, this Mbox 2 Pro is supported by ML and LX!
BTW, if you care to choose MOTU hardware to work on, you will not regret it I'm sure. They have never ever left me standing in the cold, driver-wise or support-wise! Two things I can not say about Apogee, Avid/Digi and some more starting with the letter A ……
Good luck!

Is there an audio interface for Imac with Leopard???

Hi Guys,
Im new here. Just got my IMac 24" 2.8ghz 10.5.1 Leopard last week. I love everything about it but Im having a real hard time finding an audio interface to use with Garageband. I tried the M-Audio Firewire Solo...found out quick it is not compatible. So I figure what the ** i'll downgrade and go with the M-Audio Mobilepre USB audio interface...usb, no fuss no muss right...WRONG! It doesnt work either! I tried downloading the most current driver from M-audio's website but still no go. I guess Leopard and intel machines are hard to please. Also the audio interface has to have phantom power to run a condensor mic. So my questions to you guys is this:
1. Are there any other audio interface options out there with phantom power for $200 or less that will run with my Imac ?
2. If not, why in the ** would Apple design a machine with Garageband then not set it up to accept any reasonably priced audio interface currently on the market? Tell me Im just uninformed...say it isnt so!
Sorry if it sounds like Im aggravated...I am! I had hoped to get some recording time in this weekend but its looking doubtful now.
I did post this in the Garageband discussion as well...thanks.
Any help with the mobile preamp, other interface recommendations, etc. are greatly appreciated!
Paul

Dr. Pee wrote:
Any help with the mobile preamp, other interface recommendations
Could you be a little more specific about what you mean
by "not compatible" -- is it a lack of Leopard drivers,
or what?
I haven't fiddled with GarageBand, but I have been using
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work OK. (My beta-release ov audacity has some stability
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mid December, if I remember correctly.
Although firewire is probably technically superior, I
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reports of flakey operation with iMac firewire drivers.
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drawback is that it's USB 1.1 -- so, there are some
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versus data rate and resolution.
I've listed a few other USB options worth exploring
below -- I believe they all have phantom power:
[E-Mu 0404 USB|http://www.emu.com/products/product.asp?category=610&subcategory=611&produc t=15185]
[Edirol UA-25|http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=704&ParentI d=114]
[Line6 TonePort UX2|http://line6.com/toneportux2>
I'm not sure what the situation is WRT Leopard-compatible
drivers for any of the above -- you'll have to check the
manufacturers' web sites.
Check amazon.com and MusiciansFriend.com for prices; also,
be sure to check the customer comments on MusiciansFriend.
They're often very thorough and informative -- typically
much better than Amazon's.
...rock on!
Looby

Audio Interface with Seamless IMac Compatiblity?

Dear List,
I thought I submitted this question before but I couldn't find it in my stuff, and can't find exactly the same question in here by searching so here goes and sorry if it's repetitive.
I currently use an M-Audio, Fastrack Ultra as my interface, and it causes my IMac to kernel crash fairly frequently, despite the fact that I'm using all their suggested work arounds. I just looked on their website, and there's no new driver updates, as they have been working on trying to fix that issue. Thus, I'm going to give up on it and I want an audio interface that works seamlessly with IMacs. I would like to stay in the 400-600 dollar range.
The tech specs for my IMac and Logic Studio are below:
IMac 21.5inch Mid 2011
Processor: 2.7 GHz, Intel Core I5
Memory: 4GB 1333 MHz DDR3
Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6770M 512 MB
Software: Mac OS X Lion, Version 10.7.4 (11E53)
VERSION OF LOGIC PRO
9.1.7 (1700.57) 32 bit
Thanks in advance
Joyce

If you can stretch your budget (quite a bit actually, but you can find deals on the net) I can't recommend the RME Fireface 800 models enough. Lots of I/O, never EVER had a crash, and the drivers and tools are rock solid. RME also makes a FF400 which has less I/O, but also costs less. The sound is steller, and it has no discernable noise. These are Firewire interfaces, but they just camme out with one that also talks USB.
Pete

Mixer + Audio Interface Combination best for Logic?

I have struggled for the last year with a totally unreliable and unfixable Mackie Onyx 1220 with built in sound card ( which is completely dodgy and keeps disconnecting itself from my Mac. It is definitely not a Logic issue).
There was a thread about a mixerless set up here on the forum a while back which persuaded me to try an expensive MOTU interface but I didnt get on with it and sold it for this current package.
My question is: do any of you have a strong suggestion for make of mixer + audio interface.
I have a small studio for overdubs and need at least 4 mic inputs in the mixer and then a few channels for midi modules/keyboards etc
I was looking at the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 +... what mixer?
Thanks for your input
Music Spirit

For impartial product advice see... the website of the manufacturer?
The best interface is the interface operated by the best engineer.
So you'll have to become the best engineer first.
http://mhsecure.com/metric_halo/

Best Audio Interface for Macbook Pro

Hey I'm looking into getting a new Macbook and wondering what the best option for portable audio interfaces is... I know RME has a PCI card that might be able to work... I'd like to avoid using the firewire bus because I'd like to use FW drives fairly intensively for audio playback. But from what I have seen, it seems like the Express 34 audio interface is a rarity, with FW being the most common interface type.
I'm not interested in comments from users who only know and use one interface...but prefer rather comments from people who have compared or researched multiple choices.
Thank!

your question is easy to get lots of responses, but difficult to come up with any truths... mainly because much of this question is very very qualitatively different for different people.
where to start with some of the questions...
do you need low latency - do multi-track recordings, or simply audio down in independent takes?
how many channels do you need to record at any 1 time?
here are some of the items that i have been looking at, personally...
Grace Design Lunatec V3 - with toslink optical digital option.
http://www.gracedesign.com/products/V3/lunatecV3.htm
can be battery powered. great preamps and A/D converter. no integrated monitoring option. only does 2 channels. the MBP has an optical digital input, so the optional optical output model could be hooked up directly to the MBP without any intermediate interface
Apogee Mini-Me USB option
http://www.apogeedigital.com/products/miniseries.php
can be battery powered. great preamps and A/D converter. integrated monitoring option. only does 2 channels and up to 48KHz sampling rate. built in compression / limiting can be useful to some, but not others.
Apogee also has the firewire option card coming up and the reason that I suggested the Mini-Me with USB option vs. FW, is that you could also get a Mini-DAC equipped with FW and then when you need to, can plug the digital output of the Mini-Me into the Mini-DAC and use the FW interface (with up to 96k up / 192k down) to the computer... so would basically have the choice of USB or FW with this combo.
obviously the above options are very limited and hardly qualify as "interfaces" in the traditional sense, unless you have very minimal I/O requirements, but my application requires only 2 channels and battery power for me is a must.
my idea of portable might also be different than yours. that expresscard solution looks good if you can afford it.

Problem running a FW 400 audio interface at same time as FW 800 drives

I recently installed snow leopard (10.6.2) on a macbook pro 2.4 core duo. I have a couple firewire 800 drives connected. I ran into problems when I hooked up my audio interface to the firewire 400 port. I have the same problem with 2 different audio interfaces - Presonus Firebox and M-Audio Firewire Solo. Basically they refuse to work unless i unplug the firewire 800 drives. I found this information on M-Audio's website:
"Computers that have both a FireWire 400 and a FireWire 800 port may be sharing the same FireWire bus internally. When using both, the 400 and the 800 port at the same time, you may experience problems like audio drop outs or loss of connection to the M-Audio FireWire interface. There's a variety of possible reasons for this including but not limited to bandwidth limitations, clocking issues (400/800) and bus master problems with the devices connected to both ports. M-Audio recommends using the M-Audio FireWire audio interface on the computers original FireWire port while adding a separate FireWire interface card (with a Texas Instruments chipset) to the system (PCI, PCIe, ExpressCard, or PCMCIA). Connect any third party FireWire 800 devices to the added FireWire interface card. If your computer does not have expansion slots for a separate FireWire interface card there are 2 possible alternatives: If your external hard drive has FW400 connectivity, you can daisy chain the hard drive to the 2nd FireWire port* (if available) on your M-Audio Device. If your external hard drive has USB 2.0 connectivity, you can connect the hard drive to a USB 2.0 port on the computer"
This is exactly my problem. The audio interfaces work fine when hooked up to FW 400 port as long as no FW 800 devices are connected. It appears that my only solution is to buy a secondary FW interface card. However, I would like to know if there is a fix on the Apple side of this.
(note: I did not have this issue on my G5 running OS 10.4x, which is what I was on before I switched to this new laptop setup - the laptop is a 2007)
Anyone else have this issue, or know about a fix for it from Apple?

Thanks for that info, but that is not the problem. Obviously the first thing I did was check the FW cables and connections and shut down my computer and rebooted. And like I said, the FW 800 drives work fine when no FW 400 device is connected, and the FW 400 audio interface works fine when no FW 800 devices are connected.
The problem is that when the FW 800 drives are connected AND the FW 400 audio interface is also connected on the same bus (as this is a laptop there is only one bus with both 400 and 800 ports). The drives still seem to work fine, but the audio interface does not work. It's connection lights flash and will not hold a connection or process sound (there is either no sound, or clicks and dropouts). The flashing lights indicated a failed clock sync. M-Audio is aware of this issue as is apparent from my quote on the original post, but the only work around seems to add a secondary FW bus via an adapter card.
This problems seems to be a MAC issue with FW 400 and 800 and the internal clock sync.

Recommendations for intel compatible midi and audio interfaces?

Right now I'm looking for recommendations on a small and cheap midi interface that already has Universal drivers.
Also, what audio interfaces are people using with intel macs? Who has drivers ready besides MOTU?

I've got an m-audio firewire 410, which is supposed to be a compatable interface, but the midi doesn't seem to work at all and the headphone cue only works when you monitor the aux sends.
-Know that even if you get one of the compatible interfaces, you may have to wait for a driver update before it functions at 100%.
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.5) Intel Core Duo 2.0 GHz | 2.0 GB ram

R24 (Audio Interface) on LP9-Latency vs Distorted Input

Hi All,
I just hooked up my R24 on Logic Pro 9 as Audio Interface & Surface Controller. No matter how I try to play around the I/O Buffer Size, sound just not right!
I/O Buffer Size from 32samples to 256samples - Sound (Guitar) is just perfect, BUT, It was high latency!
I/O Buffer Size from 512samples to 1024samples - Do not have Latency issue BUT sound was distorted (like low power)!
What's wrong with my setting? Thanks for your precious opinions, appreciate!

I agree about the Saffire. It is an amzing interface!
The other way that I used to get around latency is this...
1/ Direct monitor on the card. That is, set your USB/Input balance on the Mbox
2/ In logic record enable a track. Set up a send to a reverb bus, and set it to 'pre fader'
3/ Turn your fader right down to kill the direct signal.
You will have your system latency on your reverb but hey... it's reverb. If your latency isn't TOO big this should be acceptable.
But trust me, you'd get amazing results from the Saffire! The EQ and Compression strip on the inputs (optional) sound great. I loved mine, going to buy it back!
D

Unable to Capture HDTV with Firewire

I would like to use the Firewire out capability of my LG HDTV and record video into the computer.
I've connected the G5 and tried using iRecord 0.4 and VirtualDVHS. The TV recognizes the 1394 connection and will often tell me it is transfering data, but no application has received any video. The time counter will increment, but the destination file stays at zero size.
I've downloaded FireWireSDK21 and looked over the applications and some of the source code. Wow, there is a lot to learn to figure out what is going on here.
I've wondered if buying QuickTime Pro will help, I only hesitate to do this because in the past, as soon as I buy Pro, a new QuickTime comes out and I have to do it agian. I'll buy it if it will help. So, Will it help to have QuickTime Pro?
I am also looking at some of AVCVideo applications in the SDK and wonder of these might be closer to what I want to work with. So, With Firewire, how specific are devices, i.e. do I want the G5 to look like a DVR or something else?
Finally, iMovie seems to expect to see a camera and the video from the TV does not seem to look like a camera (iMovie tells me no camera is connected). Is there a plug in or tool to trick iMovie or add capability to it to act as a DVR? I've downloaded FireWireSDK21 and looked over the applications and some of the source code. Wow, there is a lot to learn to figure out what is going on here.
Thanks! This was posted in another forum for a few weeks with no repsonses, this is the last chance.

Vidi didn't work.
The TV Firewire and Vidi had no compatible modes.
I suspect that iRecord and VirtualDVHS offer the same capability. There is some setting on the Firewire stream that is compatible with none of these programs. Still looking for a solution.
Thanks.

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