When I search on Presonus, I don't find too much. Everyone here using other products? How does Presonus rate in general?
I was browsing Craiglist and found someone selling a Presonus Firestation locally. I thought score, but after searching online it looked like Presonus released that in 2004 and have abandoned support for it already. So that concerns me.
My goal... I'd like to get a midi interface for my drums. I have a PC and it has a firewire card. This particular PC has been updated to Vista. I have a laptop I could use running XP.
I would eventually like to do multiple tracks although i don't see myself recording more than 2 to 4 inputs at one time. More likely one or two at a time.
I read a bunch on Tweak Headz guide, that's where I got turned on to the Presonus Firebox as an option.
http://www.tweakheadz.com/rigs.htm -- note Rig #1
Searching around it looks like Presonus has a product called AudioBox coming out? Guitar Center says it will be available end of this month--May 31st.
Am I going down the right path? Presonus okay? Looks like the AudioBox is USB and half the price. Anyone else care to help with the comparisons? Both look 24bit. I would think USB would be advantageous and have more support than FireWire. I bought a FireWire card with my PC but that was several OS versions ago and I've never used it and not sure it's working under Vista now.
Presonus AudioBox
Presonus FireBox
Looks like the Firebox has 4 inputs and 6 outputs? Looks like Audiobox has just 2 mics and Midi as input. So recording an electric guitar wouldn't be possible?
Any comments on Guitar Center Studio packages?
I was browsing Craiglist and found someone selling a Presonus Firestation locally. I thought score, but after searching online it looked like Presonus released that in 2004 and have abandoned support for it already. So that concerns me.
My goal... I'd like to get a midi interface for my drums. I have a PC and it has a firewire card. This particular PC has been updated to Vista. I have a laptop I could use running XP.
I would eventually like to do multiple tracks although i don't see myself recording more than 2 to 4 inputs at one time. More likely one or two at a time.
I read a bunch on Tweak Headz guide, that's where I got turned on to the Presonus Firebox as an option.
http://www.tweakheadz.com/rigs.htm -- note Rig #1
Searching around it looks like Presonus has a product called AudioBox coming out? Guitar Center says it will be available end of this month--May 31st.
Am I going down the right path? Presonus okay? Looks like the AudioBox is USB and half the price. Anyone else care to help with the comparisons? Both look 24bit. I would think USB would be advantageous and have more support than FireWire. I bought a FireWire card with my PC but that was several OS versions ago and I've never used it and not sure it's working under Vista now.
Presonus AudioBox
Presonus FireBox
Looks like the Firebox has 4 inputs and 6 outputs? Looks like Audiobox has just 2 mics and Midi as input. So recording an electric guitar wouldn't be possible?
Any comments on Guitar Center Studio packages?
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