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Yes. I just wanted to do a little monday nag and nag about this Firewire 1814 soundcard I have. I just recently bought this new imac and it's been little bit hard to be up to date with it because of all the new bugs she has. I haven't been able to plug my soundcard in since I bought it and it's getting frustrating. Today I downloaded the new upgrade posted on the m-audio website as a beta version. I hoped so much it would work but when i pushed the button there was still not sound, ohh not bad, I mean I've never heard sound anyway but now I get a light on it...great...

Anyone sharing the same problem here or am I the only one nagging?

I bless you hound...

m-audio makes junk and paper weights.

(yeah I know that was helpful)

im sure m-audio stuff work for a lot of people. But not me lost my faith in them when my fast track pro went tits up

ever since m-audio got bought by avid they've turned into prosumer garbage
with one purpose in mind.

funnel customers on to digidesign hardware and pro-tools.


they still make ok midi gear, but the audio gear is laughable.

I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT PCI sound card which works fine. This could be due to the fact that the Delta 1010 product line pre-dates Avid's acquisition of M-Audio.

I also have plug-ins/VSTi's which are distributed by M-Audio: iZotope Ozone 3 and GForce M-Tron, respectively. Those are functional, too.

Can't comment on other M-Audio hardware without direct personal experience.

gomi wrote:ever since m-audio got bought by avid they've turned into prosumer garbage
with one purpose in mind.

funnel customers on to digidesign hardware and pro-tools.


they still make ok midi gear, but the audio gear is laughable.

I'm not following this.

"prosumer"? - you don't get any lower in the food chain than M Audio, if they're 'prosumer', then who's consumer? that only leaves Creative Labs at the very bottom of the food chain.

so, as a gear whore I get dissatisfied with my piece of M Audio gear and that will make me want digidesign and Pro Tools? what? that makes no sense. as a matter of fact I went to Live and an Edirol sound card without ever consider digidesign or pro tools.

their midi gear sucks too. the only M Audio I have is the midisport 8x8s midi merge box, when it worked it would still lock up and have to be left off overnight to fix. lately it just won't work.

Recently Aquired the Axiom 61 MIDI controller, i think its amazing, seems very robust regardless of what other people say about it.
True enough, the inital setup was a bitch, took two days to figure out what the hell was wrong with it.
No support from M-Audio at all when i emailed them.

And i have never used any other M-Audio hardware, and dont intend to after everything ive heard about them.
M-Audio really is just publicity for ProTools.

Steer clear i think.

Deano

Ajbbklyn wrote:I have an M-Audio Delta 1010LT PCI sound card which works fine. This could be due to the fact that the Delta 1010 product line pre-dates Avid's acquisition of M-Audio

same.
I have a delta1010, pre avid.
and it is still rocking.


i had some firewire garbage of theirs and it was total crap.

Tone Deft wrote:
funnel customers on to digidesign hardware and pro-tools.

i'll just shut up now, because i'd rather not get into a discussion with you.
because you are ALWAYS RIGHT.

gomi wrote:

Tone Deft wrote:
funnel customers on to digidesign hardware and pro-tools.

i'll just shut up now, because i'd rather not get into a discussion with you.
because you are ALWAYS RIGHT.

if most posters wrote that I'd blow it off, but you've gotten on me about how great you are in PMs. if it was an overstatement, simple enough, I dig that you're not just some kid launching clips. I'm simply asking someone who might know what they're talking about.

I'm always right? I often admit I'm wrong, can you? or am I missing something?

Happy Monday.

djfm wrote:im sure m-audio stuff work for a lot of people. But not me lost my faith in them when my fast track pro went tits up

mine was crap out of the box, bought novation upon returning to the store.

I've had a FW410 for 3 years or more... it worked "fine" all the time... but the quality built was just crap, from month 5 it started to crackle... the sound was not that great, volume=sh*t... not really clear at all, n ot bad, but for the money I think it was fine...
Now I have RME FF 400, that's an audio interface!

Won't ever buy another M-audio product (and anyway, you get what you paid for... preffer to save some more money and get serious things instead of toys)

No help here nither, eh? Sorry...

Good luck!

omg

I have an M-Audio Firewire Audiophile for about 3 years now. Great little soundcard for the price. My M-Audio Axiom 49 has also been solid.

Most of their stuff has continued to improve IMO.

I have a Delta1010 and it's ok.
I have an e-keystation 49e something like that ... it's great. Simple keyboard layout with pitch and tone wheels. Three buttons. Works like a charm after pluggin it in.

They both do what it says on the box.
I wouldn't trust them with anything firewire, though.

about the funneling to ProTools: It worked with me; I purchased Pro-Tools M-Powered because of the Delta. I just got a good deal. It works.

OP, there's a lot of fishes in the audio interface fish tank; If I were you I would try to sell this one, hope it finds another suitable host. Cut your losses now. Time's too precious.

best of luck.