Alesis Multimix 8 Fw, Working with a Alesis Multimix 8 FW and macbook 2.4(white) Options

[kactus]

Hello,

I've been working with a M-Audio FW410 for the past 4 years, with no problems, live and studio, using max/msp, logic pro, peak and protools m-powerd on 2 computers: an old powerbook G4/867 and a slight newer Imac G5/1.8.

The FW410 is ok, nothing to write home about, but it works in every condition, be it recording from phantom powerd mics live, or tracking 8 to 16 track music studio project or video soundtrack...

I bought one of the last (at least here, where I live, in Lisbon, Portugal) surviving 2.4 white macbooks with FIREWIRE!!!. Going from a G4 Titanium, is quite a leap, he's really fast with just 2GB of ram, that shares with the graphic board, running 10.5.6...

I'm seeking advise or experiences on the Alesis Multimix 8 FW mixer, it's a small analog mixer with a multichannel firewire interface built-in and is incredibly cheap. I keep on reading on the web, lots of problems with this mixer on the PC side, usually driver related, or the lack of 6 pin FW connections on PC's laptops... but almost none on the mac side.
Does it work ok, for multitracking? Bus powered? are the pre's clean enough? i know they are not prestine...
I know there are much better mixers/FW interfaces, Mackie, M-Audio, but they cost much more and are big to carry around on a bagpack, besides it can act as a small analog mixer for laptop work in the field where is going to work most of the time...


Please some help is needed,

Thank you for your patience,
CS

Ce message a été modifié par kactus - mer. 17 déc. 2008, 19:29.

[mortalengines]

I really liked my Onyx. I wound up selling it after I upgraded to Leopard. It wouldn't work properly after that. I DID download a patch just prior to selling the unit to make sure it worked and it does. Of course at that point I had bought an Apogee Duet and was very happy with it. I just didn't need that many inputs. 99.9% of what I do is by myself and I don't need more than 2 inputs. I would recommend the Onyx as it was rock solid up until I upgraded. It will probably work with whatever OS you have now but, you may want to go to the Mackie site and double check your compatibility. I understand that Korg is coming out with something soon as well but, I would wait until that is out for at least 6 months (maybe longer) before seriously considering buying it....you buy that kind of stuff too soon and you wind up being a guinea pig for the developers.....let somebody else work out their bugs for them.


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