thinking of replacing my Delta66 with this. the Delta66 Omni I/O box has a short or something in it. everytime I adjust the monitor pot it crackles and hisses like a bitch. I have tried to fix it by pulling off the pot and blowing canned air in and putting some small amount of oil on the steel part to sort it, but it didn't work. I also really hate the Omni I/O box - it confuses the living shit out of me and every time I go to record I'm incessantly f**king with it trying to get a signal in (there are toggles and switches all over it to route things around both on the box and in software control panel). I just want something simple and good with ASIO and MIDI.
my guitar and mic are all I need as I never even bother with the XP-60 soundsource anymore since I cannot find a reliable way to interact with it (sounddiver that I bought long ago is a humongous pile of dung, as is midiquest, and all the small time roland tools like changeit, tonebank, jvperf99 jvedit99, etc (of which i've regged them all over the years). I guess if I could sort out how to get any of the deep editors to work while my host was running (midiquest was supposed to be able to using midiyoke but I never got that working -- supposed to actually integrate with cakewalk patch lists and never got that working either). sorry for that tangent.
anyway, guitar will go direct in and condenser mic also as this thing has preamps i guess and phantom power which i need. the outputs will support the monitors i have already...
just wonder if anyone has heard anything bad about this? are there intrinsic problems with firewire interfaces on PC? i have an adaptec duoconnect usb2.0/firewire interface card in my box that works ok with all the usb 2.0 stuff i've tried and the 1394 stuff with a camera i borrowed from my friend worked equally well.
this fireone comes with live6 lite which i could later upgrade to full if i wanted (and may do that depending on how i find live6 lite), so that's a bonus. seems like a nice piece of hardware and tascam is a pretty good reputable name. i have a us-428 (i dont use it anymore because it's too big and i dont need all the old stuff i had plugged in etc) that i didn't have any problems with.
the unit will hopefully sit to the left of my keyboard (i have a big keyboard drawer that should accommodate it) and so i could then get nice transport buttons, custom buttons, and that hip jog/shuttle wheel.
before i had looked at a alphatrack and a presonus faderport, but they dont also have sound interface on them so that would require another purchase to get away from my delta66 and into a similar audio interface.
right now midi is running through my sblive in my computer (because the xp-60 has no usb stuff and i find the sblive midi to be very reliable) but if i could get this fireone i could plug the xp-60 into that instead and ditch the sblive and reclaim another interrupt, remove some kruft from the box.
so any advice/comments/feedback on this Tascam FireOne would be great. if you know of any alternatives that fulfill the same needs (audio interface, midi interface, mic pres, guitar direct in, phantom power, transport control and a jogwheel) i'm all ears.
thanks in advance. you guys are my buddies and i know you wont let me make stupid mistakes.
For interfaces these days I'm using a Terratec
