Event Ezbus $100 Rebate, Only through January 31st! Options

[Levon River]

Event Technology is offering a mail-in $100 rebate on any EZBus purchased prior to December 31st. Since most places sell it for around $599.00, that brings the net price for the little powerhouse down to just under $500.00 if you want one and can act fast--and can find any.

I realize the time is short for this notice, but since, as usual, Event Technology's Marketing Director (if they even have one) appears to be working overtime to keep this machine out of the hands of potential customers, I just found out about this myself and I thought I ought to post it if only on a better-late-than-never basis.

For those who don't know, the machine is an audio interface, a standalone digital mixer, a 2 I/O MIDI interface, and a control surface for music software, all rolled into one compact package, with an amazing array of configurable bussing/routing options built in. It provides two channels of audio I/O to the computer via USB out of the box, and there is an optional PCI card (the EZ8) that provides multiple I/O with the standard digital I/O formats. There is no OS X driver for that card at the moment, but MacMusic's own venerable buserror was working on one the last I heard, so hope blooms eternal.

I personally don't know of any similar bang-for-the-buck item, so with this incentive and some Christmas money, I broke down and ordered one. I'll come back with war stories and show you my scars after it arrives.

[BusError]

We discussed royalties; but *I* am not interested. I'm a developer, not an accountant. My work is premium, delivered on time with documentation, and thats it. I don't see why I should bear some of the risk of how they sell their products with no control over that processus (and no WILL to get any kind of control on that either): it's not my buisiness. I do sharewares; but in that case *I* control that processus so theres only me to blame if it doesn't work.

And all that Apple-pushing-it's-products is a bit paranoid. And why is there drivers for those cards is because they were probably written by apple people close to the coreaudio team, that helps a lot to have the guy who wrote the API sitting in the next cube.