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I found myself having to now buy a new motherboard and RAM to make this thing run with
Windows 7 x64 but still - it sounds phenomenal!

hellz yeah man! tube preamps?

Its an audio interface - ie. great soundcard (best I've had so far) with the needed ins from my monitors ( 2 x Yamaha HS80Ms + 1 HS10W). Just in hearing the difference in audio quality output this should solve a lot of <500Hz mixing issues that I was having.

yes, it definitely is. i use the profire 2626 myself.

I'm partial to Apogee, myself.

Congrats, though! Those things are nice. I've looked at some of their larger interfaces, but ultimately went with the Apogee Duet when I'm performing live or doing field recording. I have a Presonus Firepod for my Synclavier and the rest of my rig (8 inputs from the front panel). FP adds a little coloration to the sound, but I actually like it. The Focussrite toys have some really impressive processors in their interfaces. So I have to admit I'm 33.3% jealous.

I looked into the One a few months back but found out that they only support Apple anymore . Its a shame, I hear their stuff is tops.

Argh!! ! Curses Steve Jobs!! ! I didn't know that.

You can't go wrong with Focusrite, though. Or PT with an M-Box. Personally, though, if I had money to burn I'd go with anything with a Sharc in it.

I hear lots of good things about Motu as well, unfortunately I wasn't really fixed to spend quite that much money yet (well - unwittingly I still did; with the new motherboard, CPU, RAM, video card, power supply, etc. I'm looking at $550.00 I just spent at New Egg - fortunately that's still more broad-based than just music use). I think the Pro 14 should be enough to nail my mixes better. Previously I've been using the Mbox 2 as an interface which, sadly, Windows will not by any means take as an overall soundcard (so - useable in Pro Tools, useless in Ableton and Reason), I actually had to jerry-rigg two quarter inch jacks from the out of that into my Creative Labs Audigy 4, that could have played a fair part in the frustrations I've had for the past year or so.

That and, actually, curse Microsoft. Apogee stopped covering them mainly because Microsoft would not stay with them or work with them to keep things up to date, I'm guessing they have a habit of really shoving these types of companies off, not returning their phone calls, and when they've had enough they've had enough.

Meh. Personally, I wouldn't waste my time with Audigy. They have never impressed me. Although, I will say this for Creative: I still have my year '99 eMachines with FM soundcard. I wish I had enough tech savvy to program the darned thing, as it seems only slightly less inaccessible than a vintage DX7. I'm decent at DX progging--enough to wonder why Yamaha bothered with 32 algorithms. There are only just so many different ways you can reinvent the wheel. The Synclav is way cooler, anyway--not because of superior FM implementation, but for the wavetabley kinds of things it will do that you can't do on the DX7.

I drool at PT hardware. I made the choice to go with Logic, so it doesn't matter which interface I use. If I want superior recording, I'll use the Duet, which is Apple's answer to the MBox, anyway and sounds amazing. If I could afford the Symphony, then I'd probably just buy PT anyway!

Got any recordings up anywhere with the FR? I'd love to hear a good demo from a "real" user rather than the more obviously "commercial" cleaned-up for advertising demos you usually find on the web.

Incidentally--not meaning to hijack your thread, but I posted an audio-only youtube link in the "Showcase Thread." You can get a good earful of extreme high-end FM synthesis! I'm going through an ambient/space phase right now, hopefully warming up to doing some substantial serious work later on. I'll post the link here to save some time, but I'll forgo embedding the video:

http://www.wrongplanet.net/posts20846-start495.html

Unfortunately my new computer still hasn't come yet. It looks like UPS will not deliver on weekends so the received in on Friday and will sit on it till Monday afternoon. I have martial arts four nights during the weekdays so I may not even have installed till after I get back from the Klaxons concert on Friday in Colombus.

So far it sounds amazing, I'm sure with better preamps (not jerry-rigged over bad extensions), I already have several completed songs that are more recent that I haven't posted to Soundcloud. The main reason being - ever since the middle of last year Soundcloud slurps, gargles, and belches on a lot of my tracks. Keeping everything always at 44.1Khz has helped with some of the quantization problems (their mp3 coded is extremely thin and even if you give them a 128 kbps mp3 they still transcode it their way) but still - I get some horse chomping back, what really angers me is its on the tunes and ideas that I'm actually most proud of, my best tracks I haven't been able to post. I'm thinking this might get better with the Saffire or, I'll just be posting it somewhere else altogether different since they've really gone south in terms of service.


Slick, I'll take a look once the company leaves.