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presonus faderport

neptoon

neptoon

Jul 25, 2000
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anyone tried one of these guys out? i'm buying a new house and i'm going to have an enourmous space to set up a small home studio...thing is, i know nothing of recording other than playing when the engineer says go :D this looked like a cool little unit, and i was wondering if anyone has checked it out...i'm also looking at the presonus 1394 inspire as an interface...i'll be using sonar (not sure which revision) producer edition...i also don't have a computer yet, so this will be from the ground up...the reason for building my set up is this: i've got two bands in the seattle area, and i'm in the memphis area now (navy)...i would be getting tracks from the engineer in seattle, putting them on my computer, recording bass and sending it back...anyone else in this situation? i also think the m-audio projectmix is really cool, but i'm not sure i need that much interface for just doing a bass track or two here and there...also, i have no clue about going back and forth between sonar and pro-tools...yeah, i'm all jacked up...what do you think of this faderport? cool or crap?




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#3
yeah, it's a controller for the virtual stuff on your screen, but you don't have to use a mouse or keyboard to do all of your start, stop, punch in, punch out functions...that's why i'm attracted to it and the projectmix...playing around with a mouse and keyboard are just so irritating
 
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neptoon said:
anyone tried one of these guys out? i'm buying a new house and i'm going to have an enourmous space to set up a small home studio...thing is, i know nothing of recording other than playing when the engineer says go :D this looked like a cool little unit, and i was wondering if anyone has checked it out...i'm also looking at the presonus 1394 inspire as an interface...i'll be using sonar (not sure which revision) producer edition...i also don't have a computer yet, so this will be from the ground up...the reason for building my set up is this: i've got two bands in the seattle area, and i'm in the memphis area now (navy)...i would be getting tracks from the engineer in seattle, putting them on my computer, recording bass and sending it back...anyone else in this situation? i also think the m-audio projectmix is really cool, but i'm not sure i need that much interface for just doing a bass track or two here and there...also, i have no clue about going back and forth between sonar and pro-tools...yeah, i'm all jacked up...what do you think of this faderport? cool or crap?




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PreSonus makes some great stuff. I highly recommend the Firebox, but I do have a question.

You mention Pro Tools. Is there a reason that you are not looking into a Pro Tools LE solution? If you are on the same software as the guys you are working with you can just pull up the entire session file, and not have to worry about importing and exporting files between two formats. An MBox2Mini comes with the Pro Tools LE software and the interface for about the same price as the Firebox. The MBox2Pro gives you more I/O and connects via Firewire. If you don't already own Sonar, the Mbox2Pro would be less expensive than the FireBox + Sonar6Pro, but more expensive than the FireBox + Sonar6Stu solution.

The FaderPort will work fine with either program, but if you are not really mixing, you probably would not need the Faderport.

Just something to consider.
Dan
 
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neptoon said:
he's using sonar...but i think it's sonar 5 producer edition...hence looking at sonar interfaces :D
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The PreSonus faderport is a great little unit, although it feels a little flimsy (what do you expect at that price?) If you need the controls, get it. If you don't, don't. PreSonus gear works with all major DAWs, btw, not just Sonar.

Make sure that you get at least Sonar 5 PE if the engineer is using it. Better yet, get Sonar 6 PE. Sonar 5 PE has issues recognizing 32-bit drivers in 64-bit mode. Of course, either works in 32-bit mode anyway, so it may not come up for you. Point being, Sonar 4 won't read a Sonar 5 project file.

Any version of Sonar past version 3 will export to OMF format, which most ProTools setups will read, as well. It's been a little buggy in my experience, though, so be careful. Exporting your bass track to .wav and sending that is always a safe bet.

BTW, the only reason I don't own a Faderport is that I want more than one fader at a time. Until I can afford a quality fader bank with automation, I'm sticking to my non-automated Tascam.
 

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