Early last year I went 10 rounds with Presonus in an attempt to attach a 22VSL to my computer. Although I was finally able to get it to work, I kept getting the dreaded BSOD on my computer. Final verdict from Presonus and my computer guy... my bios was too out-of-date and terribly not up-to-snuff.
Cut to now...
New computer, modern bios, disk drive/ssd combo... still trying to hook up the Presonus 22VSL... poking USB ports all over the computer... installing/uninstalling drivers... serious waste of my time.
Anybody else have issues with Presonus hardware? My 2nd choice for an interface was something in the Focusrite Scarlett series. Is Focusrite's hardware and software any easier to deal with?
Recommendations are welcome because I'm ready and able to cut my losses and get something that freakin' works!
Should I Just Throw in the Towel...
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Karl the Hermit Karl the Hermit https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=203618
- KVRist
- 105 posts since 21 Mar, 2009 from West Pennsyltucky, USA
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- KVRAF
- 16827 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Both Focusrite and Presonus pop up regulary in threads about interfaces with troubles getting it stable or even working at all.
Good drivers are hard to write. RME cannot be beaten at that. So there seems to be a correllation with price. Although I have good experiences with ESI, so go figure...
Do some research and dig up old threads here I'd say.
Good drivers are hard to write. RME cannot be beaten at that. So there seems to be a correllation with price. Although I have good experiences with ESI, so go figure...
Do some research and dig up old threads here I'd say.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240 - KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
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machinesworking machinesworking https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=8505 - KVRAF
- 8028 posts since 15 Aug, 2003 from seattle
NI have discontinued driver and OS for plenty of audio hardware devices they make. I'm not trying to dog you personally, you're simply one of the lucky ones, I own Kore and Rig kontrol 3, both have faulty drivers at this point and you're luck might run out as well. Notice none of their audio drivers have been updated in two years...thecontrolcentre wrote:I've had good experience with my NI interface. Its worked fine for over 10 years, with three different laptops. NI keep updating the drivers as new OS versions appear.
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... her-files/
If you're looking for long term reliability in terms of drivers I would say the only company with a worse reputation that I've used personally is M-Audio.
RME on the other hand have never had audio issues; in the 13 years I've owned the Fireface not a blip.
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- KVRAF
- 2627 posts since 16 Jan, 2013
My Audio Kontrol 1 is sitting in a drawer because the Mac drivers haven't worked properly in years. I replaced it with a Scarlett which has worked fine but on the Mac side there are no drivers needed for it as it's class-compliant.
I won't buy anything USB audio/MIDI these days unless it's class-compliant. Unfortunately Windows is still lagging behind in adding support for class-compliant USB audio and MIDI as far as I know. You'd think with all the updates they put out for Windows 10 they could finally just add it in.
I won't buy anything USB audio/MIDI these days unless it's class-compliant. Unfortunately Windows is still lagging behind in adding support for class-compliant USB audio and MIDI as far as I know. You'd think with all the updates they put out for Windows 10 they could finally just add it in.
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thecontrolcentre thecontrolcentre https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=76240
- KVRAF
- 37262 posts since 27 Jul, 2005 from Scottish Borders
Audio Kontrol driver was updated last month ...machinesworking wrote:NI have discontinued driver and OS for plenty of audio hardware devices they make. I'm not trying to dog you personally, you're simply one of the lucky ones, I own Kore and Rig kontrol 3, both have faulty drivers at this point and you're luck might run out as well. Notice none of their audio drivers have been updated in two years...thecontrolcentre wrote:I've had good experience with my NI interface. Its worked fine for over 10 years, with three different laptops. NI keep updating the drivers as new OS versions appear.
https://www.native-instruments.com/en/s ... her-files/
If you're looking for long term reliability in terms of drivers I would say the only company with a worse reputation that I've used personally is M-Audio.
RME on the other hand have never had audio issues; in the 13 years I've owned the Fireface not a blip.
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Karl the Hermit Karl the Hermit https://www.kvraudio.com/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&u=203618
- KVRist
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- 105 posts since 21 Mar, 2009 from West Pennsyltucky, USA
Sorry... I looked at the mods list and there's a bunch of them... which one should I ask?bungle wrote:Wrong forum, you will get more responses if you ask a mod to move it to hardware or computer set up.
Strangely enough, I own an old M-Audio Delta 44 I bought new about 13 years ago... it's been swapped in and out of 4 different computers and it still works just fine. The only reason I'm not still using it is because the A/D converters are so out of date. It's a card with a break-out box. When I shopped for a new interface last year, I was dismayed to see there aren't many of them around anymore... everything's USB now it seems...machinesworking wrote: If you're looking for long term reliability in terms of drivers I would say the only company with a worse reputation that I've used personally is M-Audio.
RME on the other hand have never had audio issues; in the 13 years I've owned the Fireface not a blip.
I shopped some interfaces earlier today and love the RME and MOTU stuff, but not the prices. At this point, with all of the crap I went through last year with Presonus, and all I'm going through now, I'm at wits end... all I wanna do is make music!
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- KVRAF
- 4265 posts since 21 Oct, 2001 from my bolthole in the south pacific
There used to be saying in sigs on forums like this "Buy once, cry once." Pony up for the high quality/reliable unit and just make make music. RME all the way on that score. They are still supporting products from last century.