kactus

Phonic Helixboard 12 Mixer

Hi all,

Back on the same subject (after a few months and other thread), hope this time is the answer to my needs: small analog mixer with FW interface...

The subject now is a Phonic Helixboard 12, Dice II FW controller, does anyone here had some experience with it?

On reviews on the net it works well, it's small (almost), smaller than the above mentioned contenders, mackies, m-audio and yamaha...

What you all think, any opinions or experiences would be apreciated...

Link for the the subject:
http://www.phonic.com/index.php?product_id...target=products

Thanks,
K

Alesis Multimix 8 Fw

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

ADAM Monitors

Hello,

Does anyone already tested the "The Artist"(aka The Apple) active monitors from Adams?

The budget choice is between the Genelec 8020A and the Adams "The Artist".

It will be used in home studio enviroment for recording and mixing experimental music (Max/MSP stuff),
powerbook G4/867 + M-Audio 410 and a mackie 1202.

I have a pair of passive KRK Rockit, which i am very fond, but I keep on hearing good stuff about Adams, and so I tested a Adams passive pair that sounded great, massive sound for such a small monitor, an acoustic jazz trio seemed like they were playing in the room, with lots of space and detail...

best,
CS

Logic Express Error Timeout Or Timer Inactive

Hello,

I am a bit desperate,

After working with Logic express 7 for almost a month, it crashed one time, when I was updating the system (from 10.3.7 to 10.3.. Now every time I open logic, comes a dialog box saying: "error Timeout or timer inactive, check other application using timer or MIDI (Code 0)", exit as option, and after 2 or 3 times clicking "exit", a final box appears: "Mac OX MIDI services not available". Logic doesn´t obey to the play command, and I check the Audio Midi Setup, and the Midi configuration doesn´t show and when I try to activate it, crashes.

Does anyone has a clue?

Thanks,

Firewire 410 And Pismo

Hi all,

Hope you can help me.

I´ve tried several times to run a M-audio Firewire 410 interface on a pismo 500mhz with macOS 9.2.2, and I get a cyclic noise when playing back sounds whatever the aplication is, (logic 4.8, Peak 2.6, spark 1.5 or Max/MSP 4). The noise looks like a amplitude problem but repeats itself with a 2 or 3 second interval.
I tried several latency buffers from 32 to 1024 samples with several sampling rates like 44.1, 48 or 96 in both 16 and 24 bit word, without any result and not avoiding the noise...

Does anyone have a similar problem? Any clues?

The same interface runs quite invisible on a powerbook g4/867...

M-audio can not check the problem...

thanks in advance,
kactus