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dandeurloo
April 30th, 2008, 04:18 PM
Anyone know anything about this? http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/ProFire2626-main.html
I hear you can get 26 I/O out of LE instead of the 18 you are suppose to be locked to.
Audio~Geek
April 30th, 2008, 04:56 PM
Youd have to use Pro Tools M-Powered.
And if you read the fine print its limited to 18 I/O in PT.
Audio~Geek
April 30th, 2008, 04:57 PM
The Fine Print:
Pro Tools M-Powered Compatible
The ProFire 2626 is an extremely powerful interface for Pro Tools M-Powered. Flexible I/O, top-quality sound and low latency round out an incredible recording environment that is file-compatible with many other pro and project studios around the world.*
**Compatible with Pro Tools M-Powered 7.4 with downloadable update. Please visit m-audio.com for update availability. 96kHz and 18 x 18 I/O maximum with Pro Tools M-Powered.
dandeurloo
April 30th, 2008, 09:37 PM
A friend who I am 50 / 50 on for what he says, has another friend who has it and they say they can use all 26? Maybe i can get him to buy it and then I can test it. i just thought it would be worth asking around about.
clicktrack
April 30th, 2008, 10:36 PM
A friend who I am 50 / 50 on for what he says, has another friend who has it and they say they can use all 26? Maybe i can get him to buy it and then I can test it. i just thought it would be worth asking around about.
So lets see...you're 50/50 on your friend's word.
Assuming that you apply the same factor to his friend who is the actual horse's mouth, then that leaves you with a 25% confidence factor in this information being any use whatsoever.
Yeah...given those trust factors, asking around is a good bet.
I'd say talk to your local retailer in allowing you take out a unit for demo for a short period of time, plug it in, and test it out as much as you can. This'll beat any word of mouth.
Although I don't know this piece of kit at all, most of devices in this price range tend to have at least one "gotcha" with the number of I/Os that you can actually use simultaneously.
Cheers
Audio~Geek
May 1st, 2008, 06:36 AM
PT LE and M-Powered are both limited to 18 I/O. Period. Full-Stop.
Its bullshit completely.
It is still a better option than anything in the current LE line.
These damn things still aren't available in Canada.
Oh yeah, I'm a Digidesign/M-Audio dealer btw.
JariNi
May 1st, 2008, 01:30 PM
Except there was a version of LE which allowed to use all available inputs. Digidesign quickly "fixed" this bug. There are a few happy 32in/32out LE users. This may cause confusion, because "official" inputs are limited to 18. I wish digidesign would give us more...
Tim Halligan
May 1st, 2008, 02:45 PM
I wish digidesign would give us more...
They do.
It's called HD.
You pay extra for that too...
Remember...those guys are in business first and foremost to make a profit. Any help for users is purely coincidental.
Cheers,
Tim
stiff
May 2nd, 2008, 09:03 AM
Its bullshit completely.
That's what I told most Digidesign and M-Audio people I met at Musikmesse. Digidesign seemed concerned with it, M-Audio didn't.
CaptainHook
May 2nd, 2008, 09:27 AM
I don't see why people complain about digidesign's business.
There are plenty of other options. No one's forcing you to
use it. And if you do then you go into it knowing if you want
HD features, you pay HD prices.
They don't hide this info from you.
JariNi
May 2nd, 2008, 12:24 PM
They do.
It's called HD.
You pay extra for that too...
Cheers,
Tim
Oh, I guess I better start saving money then... :grin:
Bob Olhsson
May 2nd, 2008, 05:43 PM
It's utterly trivial to record more than 18 tracks at once into Reaper and then open it up for overdubs, editing and mixing in PT-le. It's not as elegant as using software without that limitation but its a hell of a lot cheaper than any alternative I'm aware of.
RWC
May 4th, 2008, 11:06 PM
I dumped steinberg for reaper earlier this year. It's an excellent program to work with.
I may replace logic 8 at work with reaper soon considering how fast it's developing, how little memory/CPU it uses, and how annoying a lot of small logic 8 bugs are so far..
pipelineaudio
May 7th, 2008, 05:23 AM
It's utterly trivial to record more than 18 tracks at once into Reaper and then open it up for overdubs, editing and mixing in PT-le. It's not as elegant as using software without that limitation but its a hell of a lot cheaper than any alternative I'm aware of.
Might want to do the editing in reaper too, as you can see the contents of events as you move them, something that always kept me from using our PT systems
Bob Olhsson
May 7th, 2008, 01:54 PM
PT's long suit is overdubbing and moving projects between different systems. Converting 20-30 .wav files of the same length into a PT session only takes seconds. After you've started editing and overdubbing, conversion becomes a pain.
pipelineaudio
May 7th, 2008, 06:14 PM
Yeah, it depends how you are doing it. If you do all the overdubs and a lot of the edits as you record in reaper, then hit File\Consolidate\export you will have seamless wave (or any other supported format) files from start to finish in just a few clicks which you can then drop in PT