mixer & soundcard advice

[Jay Pace]

hihi

Was planning on buying a mackie onyx with firewire.... but the firewire support card has 18 INs and only 2 OUTs.

Which means that you can't send stuff from your computer to the mixer and assign it to a channel. This isn't much good to me, as thats what I wanted it for.

There are plenty of 10x10 soundcards out there, my plan is to get a firewire 10x10 and route channels out of my computer into the mixer so I can mix them there and use hardware outbound gear (sherman etc) and hardware EQ.

Does anyone have any pointers on soundcards? Needs to be USB/firewire, I've found these two likely looking candidates:

http://www.turnkey.co.uk/product/motu-828-mk2-usb-audio-interface/
http://www.turnkey.co.uk/product/edirol-ua101-usb-audio-interface/

Grateful if someone could sense check what I'm proposing to do...

And then grateful if somone could recommend a soundcard. From everything I've heard MOTU is the shizzle and I doubt I'd ever need an upgrade. Only concerns are its slighty impractical size for portability, and the price isn't ideal, but then nothing is in this space it seems.

Cheers peeps

jp

[massplanck]

hihi

http://www.turnkey.co.uk/product/edirol-ua101-usb-audio-interface/



Sorry J. I'm gonna pitch in with my own question here
wow the Edirol is a good price. I am about to buy a new soundcard myself and was looking at the MOTU ultralight which has less ins & out but is much more expensive. Only thing is that this is USB 2 and the MOTU is firewire. Can anyone tell me the pros and cons of USB2.0 vs Firewire soundcards

[Jay Pace]

Got the same question, the MOTU comes in both USB2 & Firewire and the only difference I can see is the firewire version costs £150 more than the USB2

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[BloodStar]

personally, i wouldnt choose the Edirol one. It doesnt have Software mixer + the converters are not the best. MOTU is better choice tho.

[massplanck]

what about this jay http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_multimix_16_firewire.htm

[TechMouse]

what about this jay http://www.thomann.de/gb/alesis_multimix_16_firewire.htm
18 in / 2 out.

Jay wants more than 2 out - he wants to route multiple channels in his sequencer to multiple channels on the mixer.

Unless you can get a decent integrated solution I'd suggest that getting a multiple-out soundcard and routing everything through the mixer is just asking for a headache.

If it was me I'd just get a shit hot controller and mix in the box.

[Jay Pace]

Want to use outboard stuff - compressors, synths, effects etc. Need some sort of external mixer to do that, plus I like recording real world noises.
Onyx looks the shizzle.