[ddots-l] Re: M-audio fast track pro
- From: "Brandon Keith" <brandonboy13@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 16:19:27 -0700
Very interesting.
I have playback on my M-Audio just fine, but when I plug in my myk and record,
it's scratchy and not very good.
With my vista, the same thing, great for playback and recording, but it would
just randomly stop working after a while.
Is this the Audio Interface you're talking about?
http://www.mackie.com/products/onyxiseries/
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From: Bryan Smart
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 4:08 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: M-audio fast track pro
Yes. M-Audio used to be well known for rock solid drivers. Strangely enough,
they're now notorious for terrible drivers.
M-Audio is no longer a company. M-Audio was purchased a few years back by Avid.
Avid now uses M-Audio as a trade name for multimedia products that they make
for low-cost consumer applications. That's why older M-Audio product seem quite
a bit more premium than the million varieties of cheaply built plastic junk
that they sell now. Unfortunately, even the older gear needs newer drivers to
work with newer versions of Windows. Avid doesn't seem to feel that it is a
priority to support gear that they no longer sell. Besides, they aren't worried
about M-Audio's professional reputation, since pros wouldn't buy any of their
current gear. They only care that casual purchasers at local computer stores
will recognize the M-Audio name, and will make their $150 impulse purchase of a
M-Audio plastic thing over their competitor's $150 plastic thing. M-Audio was
good competition for Avid, anyway, so killing off M-Audio's better product
lines and eating through their reputation only helps them out.
Sorry to say that there aren't hardly any good, inexpensive, and accessible
interfaces out now. The great buy, for quality and accessibility, at the
moment, are the Mackie Onyx mixers. The 820I is $400, and certainly isn't
little/portable, though. It would be fine at home, but not for carrying around
with a laptop. Maybe one of the Edirol interfaces would work for dirt cheap
($100), but be prepared to go through a bit of accessibility frustration.
Bryan
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Paul Leishman
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 2010 10:45 AM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: M-audio fast track pro
The fasttrack pro works very well with windows XP if you load up the
included drivers. However, with vista is is rubbish. I suspect their new update
drivers are rubbish for windos 7 as well.
--- On Tue, 2/11/10, Nickus de Vos <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
From: Nickus de Vos <bigboy529@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ddots-l] M-audio fast track pro
To: "Dancing dots" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tuesday, 2 November, 2010, 14:31
Hi all i want to get myself a small sound card and i'm looking at the
fast track pro, does anyone have one or does anyone have a opinion on it, i
don't want to buy something that's not going to work for me.
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