Originally posted by Looney4Clooney
the nazis would just be rolling in their grave if they saw how german's conducted their business these days.
I bet the founding fathers would feel the same about the current state of the US.
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Originally posted by cryophonik
Nice Geoff! I'm thinking that I might need to replace my MOTU 828mkII within the next year and I've been eyeing that Focusrite for a while. I'll be interested in hearing how it works out for you.
So far so good. There's a slight issue with the FX connection glitching out for a second every hour or so, but I have no idea whether that's my computer or the interface. My old PCI FW card worked fine with the MR816 and the Powercore though.
The preamps are good, perhaps not quite as good as the MR816x, but certainly good enough for the money. I've had a brief play with the liquid channels as well and so far I'm impressed.
The Mix Control software is mostly unintuitive, but for me that kind of thing is fire and forget.
Expandability and connectivity are pretty good, although no better than most of the other 8 channel interfaces. I will be looking for some optical expansion with something like the ADA8000 as well.
was thinking of picking one of those up for bass duties - whats it like to use ???
I haven't delved too deep yet as I only got them today.
They sound fantastic of course. The UI is a little annoying, although it's relatively logically laid out. I've used a Blofeld before so I'm familiar with the matrix editing, it's still sad that there isn't more dedicated control though.
One thing to get used to is the volume variation when you use the filter and resonance knobs. I guess this is dialled out a lot in software, but requires levelling out when you're recording live audio.
For bass it's awesome, and of course it's completely alias free.
Edit - By the way, there is a 3rd party software editor for them believe it or not!
Originally posted by tehlord
I haven't delved too deep yet as I only got them today.
They sound fantastic of course. The UI is a little annoying, although it's relatively logically laid out. I've used a Blofeld before so I'm familiar with the matrix editing, it's still sad that there isn't more dedicated control though.
One thing to get used to is the volume variation when you use the filter and resonance knobs. I guess this is dialled out a lot in software, but requires levelling out when you're recording live audio.
For bass it's awesome, and of course it's completely alias free.
Edit - By the way, there is a 3rd party software editor for them believe it or not!
cool man thanks - the editing will probably put me off one - especially if its like the Blofeld, just hated programming that :-/
it is a pretty simple synth to edit. I mean there isn't that much you can do. It just sounds great. And it is rack mountable. That is the problem with everything new comming out. THey are made for hipsters to bring to their dj gigs and have next to their laptops to look legit.
and Hidden Cleaner and YemuZip are a good way to not pissoff PC users you might collaborate with
there's also a NTFS plugin where you can mount windows formatted devices with full write capabilities but it's slow as shit
also im not sure if they are still putting this on the system disks but if you install 'X11' and download 'Winehelper' you can open up a lot of .exe files
Last edited by meriter on Jul-09-2013 at 01:20
Jul-09-2013 01:12
Richard Butler
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: Apr 2009
Location: London
Geoff I once owned an AN1X - awesome thing to fuk about with and had a unique sound. Awkward to edit but it didn't bother me.
Jul-10-2013 11:11
DJ RANN
Supreme tranceaddict
Registered: May 2001
Location: Hollywood....
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Originally posted by meriter
If you're a new mac user couple things to reccomened
and Hidden Cleaner and YemuZip are a good way to not pissoff PC users you might collaborate with
there's also a NTFS plugin where you can mount windows formatted devices with full write capabilities but it's slow as shit
also im not sure if they are still putting this on the system disks but if you install 'X11' and download 'Winehelper' you can open up a lot of .exe files
Forgot about Onyx - thanks!
What the point of pathfinder? The search bar literally finds everything I need in a second.
And when you say open exe files, you mean they'll execute?
Oh and just to add to that, you're better off having shared drives to be used on mac and PC as fat32. Both can use them, and the speed of that NTFS mounter makes you want to pull your balls off with a mangle.
Originally posted by DJ RANN
Forgot about Onyx - thanks!
What the point of pathfinder? The search bar literally finds everything I need in a second.
Pathfinder is awesome.. I didn't realize how crippled the finder really was until I started using it. Just for instance do a search for one of your audio units. Nothing coming up? That's cause the finder doesn't search through any of the system directories. Filter your search results by size in finder... no dice. Just a couple examples. It's a total replacement for finder with a massive and customizable feature-set. So much better for anything relating to file management. There are review videos and stuff if you want to know more I'm feeling kinda lazy right now, but yeah definitely worth trying out if you want to speed up and streamline your workflow
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And when you say open exe files, you mean they'll execute?
Yeah. I mean don't try to load up Skryim or whatever but it works great for the little things
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Oh and just to add to that, you're better off having shared drives to be used on mac and PC as fat32. Both can use them, and the speed of that NTFS mounter makes you want to pull your balls off with a mangle.
agreed but realistically, say Bob PC User brings over his already formatted drive and you guys want to transfer files, it's really the best way. If you buy a new drive with the intent of it being a shared drive then yeah
Jul-11-2013 06:18
cryophonik
Boom shanka
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Elk Grove, CA USA
For those of you who thought you'd never see me using a Mac/Logic.
