Presonus Firebox users?

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:21 am

Hey all, our Motu 828mkII is having issues at the moment (been great for 3-4 years, but now on the way out) and I'm looking at replacing it for live use with a Firebox because they look solid, are small and cheap enough to replace if it gets damaged from gigging.

So my question is has anyone got one of these that they use on a mac, possibly with Live 6? Any thoughts, comments? I know Pighood has one and likes it.

GeneralBigbag · Post by **GeneralBigbag** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:46 pm

I'm not using it with a mac, but the build is solid (although I'd be careful banging around the knobs), it's extremely small, the sound quality is decent for the price, and I've had no problems using it as a midi interface with Ableton or Cubase.... unless the mac drivers suck, it will probably do you for most things.

divineaudio · Post by **divineaudio** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 5:01 am

GeneralBigbag wrote:I'm not using it with a mac, but the build is solid (although I'd be careful banging around the knobs), it's extremely small, the sound quality is decent for the price, and I've had no problems using it as a midi interface with Ableton or Cubase.... unless the mac drivers suck, it will probably do you for most things.

ditto.

what's that mac tag line... oh yeah - it just works.

Post by **Stab Frenzy** » Wed Oct 10, 2007 7:44 am

divineaudio wrote:
GeneralBigbag wrote:I'm not using it with a mac, but the build is solid (although I'd be careful banging around the knobs), it's extremely small, the sound quality is decent for the price, and I've had no problems using it as a midi interface with Ableton or Cubase.... unless the mac drivers suck, it will probably do you for most things.
ditto.

what's that mac tag line... oh yeah - it just works.

?? I'm already using a mac, I don't get what you mean. Do you use one with a mac?

There a plenty of badly written mac drivers out there, just look at M-Audio, theirs are shockingly unstable.

divineaudio · Post by **divineaudio** » Thu Oct 11, 2007 4:13 pm

hrm...maybe i should have added a smiley to convey some dry humor.

the firebox we have in the studio has been used with 2 different pc's and a macbook (which currently resides in my drummer's studio) for both live performance and multitracking purposes. recently we have been working with live 6, cubase and sonar and never once have we had any issues with it.
so, in borrowing the mac slogan, it just works.