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PreSonus Inspire 1394

FireWire audio interface from PreSonus

petissuisse petissuisse
Published on 10/10/07 at 07:39
The price and the fact that you can plug in two instruments have motivated my choice. I do not need a hardware pro and I want to record a symphony orchestra. I play alone with my guitar. The card connects with firewire, which it seems is better than USB, but I never had the opportunity to compare. Cubase LE and other apps come with. Rve in the bote, whatever. My config: Dell rcent (bought in June 2007), 1 GB of RAM. All in order to make music. We're talking about the expected performance that exactly match what looks a musician who plays alone or with a small group and not want to take the head. Small BMOL because of a lot of laptops it will buy a card to be able to connect. And it's not free ...

UTILIZATION

Obviously this card has major compatibility problems with Windows. It suffices to count the people who have had a problem in the previous ones opinion. in my case, it never really worked. Dja during installation, the driver does DTECT sometimes not. When we finally arrived to install it, it tries to open the "Control Panel". But it crashes. In this case it is necessary to reboot the pc, otherwise it starts rowing. So one point for the implementation because I russian run twice (in three months, but we must say that I spend my time).

GETTING STARTED

Russian so I run twice. Well.
The very first time I run cubase (included). No sound DTECT to save. APRS search for an hour in the manual, in the Control Panel, j'arrte. Really no way to save.
The march deuxime time she and I start cubase I get even record something! It may be noted here that I have not done anything DIFFERENT from all other times, which makes me think that the problem does not come from me ... Well, to make it work when I uninstall and reinstall of same drivers, but never mind, I usually now. All these motions do I take a break. Thirty minutes later, I return. And everything is blocked again. Back box departure. I though I prcise sr branch leaves everything open and during that time ... So stability is not really his forte, we can say ...

By the way, another problem that I represented: the "control panel" (a window on the screen), a TRS may sound nice as IDE, also lots of people say (yes I had the opportunity of a lot of fluff user forums these days ...). But those who actually do the recording will have noticed that cubase and co. dja is full of windows open, one would be happy to rgler stuff without having to open one more. Worse, when you open the control panel to adjust the volume, for example, stops the playback. Very practical ...

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it?
I train with a few months.
DCID I go back to the seller. He tried to reinstall everything on my laptop, to do everything as it should (you never know, I know may not be all tips). And has not work as planned (although a little relieved when j'tais same ...). He tries a different card they have in stock (yes, the same MODEL!). And yet it works ... He tries to mine on the PC of the store. has not work ... He tries to them on their pc. has not work ...

These two cards are not in the same manufacturing SERIES, since I bought mine long ago. This is not a default one-time manufacturing.

What is the particular feature you like best and least?
I learned a lot by reading forums and faq. Except I have not see the intrt.

Have you tried many other models before acqurir?
No no, it's true.

How do you report qualitprix?
If worked, it would be correct. But not work ...

Exprience with, you will do again this choice?
Yes, but by trying it first with the seller, because I dare esprer MODELS some work ...
Although they have released a MODEL slightly more expensive (but not too) o apparently rglages faade can be done and not just via the control panel. I would opt for it now.

The minimum score was annoys me because these people selling stuff that does not always work.