The guys at Guitar Center told me it was compatible with any Windows XP system. They obviously don’t know what the heck they are talking about.

Well, Windows XP certainly works with the Presonus Firestudio, but if they didn’t mention chipsets, they are either incompetent or deceitful.

Brandon

I have frequent bluescreen sysaudio.sys and 1394 errors. Presonus has some of the worst customer service of any company I have ever dealt with. On multiple occasions I was on hold for 30 minutes only to get a recording asking me to leave a message. Some guy named Frazier was helping me, if you call it that. He never returned emails or phone calls. When he finally did, he informed me that my nforce4 motherboard was incompatible, but nothing else. He sent me to the presonus forums, which are a cluster.

Unfortunately, I can’t take the product back to GC because the 30 day window has expired. Looks like I am going to have to sell it on ebay. I will never buy another product from Presonus again.

anyways…

I’m looking into the firestudio as well as m-audio and motu competetors… however i’m really lost when I read about the misleading information virtual v.s. simultaneous inputs.

I looking to use a new penryn core 2 duo 2.4ghz macbook pro, I will be using the audio interface as part of a setup to do live shows with both live instruments mic’d people and acoustics and electronic stuff both lined in and straight from the computer… i’ll be working mainly in ableton live and eventually max/msp to handle my AWS duties.

I’m looking for something that can handle as many high quality line in’s as possible, and at least enough mic inputs to mic a live drum set and maybe one or two vocals (if needed i could convert xlr’s to 1/2″)…

I’d also like to have the head phone mix option like yourself because i’ll be kinda of an improv composer as well as the sound man for the band and i’d like to be able to send out different information to the different members… also any features that would take away strain on the computer itself (processing power that is), since its already going to be both mixing the live show as well as arranging additional loops, live efx, live keyboard etc.

Any suggestions on brand, model, or possible deals/referbs
anything to get me started down the recording path quicker!

We recently invested in the presonus firestudio project and have both been pleasently surprised at the level or quality we are able to get out of it.

We did have and issue because although we have gotten a new dual core computer to use for the studio, it did not have a firewire port.
at first we used his ancient soundblaster card but we kept having issue after issue with electrical noise and the interface just not even powering on.
we have since switched to the Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS card with the built in port and not a single issue has held us back. Higly reccomeneded, even if your not recording with an interface. the quality of the signal even at analog cant really be beat(except by newer ones of course)