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1. #Phonic helix board 18 usb install
2. #Phonic helix board 18 usb drivers
3. #Phonic helix board 18 usb driver
4. #Phonic helix board 18 usb portable

Yes, the firewire signal is totally independant of everything else. Sometimes you just need a mixer to do a little outside job where total pristine quality doesn't really matter.

#Phonic helix board 18 usb portable

Now, when you consider that supposedly you can send a total of 18 independant signals to 18 tracks on your DAW (and I've successfully done half of these) with this board, that's a pretty good back for the buck when you consider the price of the board.Īnd, if you happen to need a utility mixer for some portable job in the meantime, you get the board with the deal. I's a whole seperate process that just uses the MIC pres of each channel to transfer a digital signal to the DAW software on the computer that's unmolested by any of the other processes. Therefore, volume sliders, EQ settings, Digital Effects, AUX sends have nothing to do with the firewire signal. But, Keep in mind that a firewire signal is only passing through the gain knob of each channel. There are lots of better boards out there. I hear a lot of bashing of Phonic on the forum pages and it is true, it's not the sharpest tool in the shed when it come to PA equipment. So far I've had no problems streaming up to 9 tracks of audio to either of the multitrack software progs that I use. Same thing with my Toshiba laptop that is also P4 with 1 gig of RAM.

#Phonic helix board 18 usb drivers

I took it out of the box when I got it, loaded up the drivers in my P4 2.80ghz desktop with 1 gig of RAM and had no glitches with windows xp at all. I use the Phonic Helix 18 Firewire board and have had no problems with it, as far as using it as a firewire interface. They are telling me that the firewire drivers for the latest stuff like Presonus firepod etc are very stable, but I know they'd say anything to make their commission. I don't really want to trust what the salesmen in the music stores are telling me. As you say, google it up, you might find it surprising.Įven more interesting to me is that firewire 800 while faster than firewire 400, it's not twice as fast, I think the bench testing results I saw were like 20-30% faster. Under bench testing firewire outperforms it by about 2 to 1.

It's misleading, USB uses much more overhead than Firewire. I finally found a few threads on the Phonic stuff, it pretty much scared me off, looks like you were right about that too.īy the way, don't be fooled by the USB 2.0 480mbps vs the Firewire 400mpbs rating. Just too expensive if I go with quality gear. I'm giving up on the mixer/audio interface idea. I erred on the Alesis board, you are right it's 24/48. I like the idea of the Tascam and Mackie stuff being expandable and not a dead end one piece of gear and your done.

#Phonic helix board 18 usb driver

Or at least they are offering driver updates on a regular basis to keep them current, and justify their prices. So far the Tascam and Mackie stuff seem to be the most reliable at this point. That info I just got out of their add in Future Music magazine. You wont see me jumping on the firewire bandwagon.ĪS for the Alesis gear, I am not sure were you got the spec but their new firewire stuff will do 24/48. But that may change, but not soon enough for me.

#Phonic helix board 18 usb install

I dont have to worry about them crashing my recording software, or just plain pukeing their guts out when I install something or update something.Īs well USB 2.0 is a bit faster then firewire, more stable/reliable. Well, my PCI interfaces run very stable, extremely low latency. A couple of mags that did short briefs on it were Electronic Musician, and Computer Music. Google it up and you should get to some of the sites with reviews.