whats your biggest purchase disapointment?

[TrevCircleStudios]

Digidesign converters. I switched 'em out for Lynx Aurora. Awesome for the price point!

[terminal3]

Originally Posted by TrevCircleStudios

Digidesign converters. I switched 'em out for Lynx Aurora. Awesome for the price point!

8 or 16?

Those are on my list big time... even sans PTHD, they look like pretty sweet boxes...

[sphelan]

New PC running Vista. Wish I had continued saving for a MAC!!!

[TrevCircleStudios]

8 or 16?

16. Awesome value. They stand up well to much more expensive converters.

[sureno]

CME UF8, went all the way to the birmingham branch from west london because it was the only store who had it, brought it back in the smallest convertable you could imagine so had half of it hanging out the window and when i got home found the support for it was utter S@@T drivers useless and maps buggy, utter poop imo

[FrankGIK]

Nuemann TLM-103...horrid-sounding mic. Lost a blind shootout to a $200 cheapo Chinese condenser.

On the low-ish end of things, the Focusrite Voicemaster Pro...sounded terrible on absolutely everything I tried it on.

Frank

[conor_j]

Originally Posted by sphelan

New PC running Vista. Wish I had continued saving for a MAC!!!

Slowly starting to think the same myself, live & learn

[sphelan]

Yeah, but mistakes like this are expensive...and not only financially!!

[terminal3]

Originally Posted by FrankGIK

Nuemann TLM-103...horrid-sounding mic. Lost a blind shootout to a $200 cheapo Chinese condenser.

Man, we MUST be brothers or somethin'.

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by waxxy

whats the one thing you thought you really needed for your studio you bought it then wished youd saved the money and bought something else?

EMU1820M

Fantastic sound but...the drivers were simply terrible. It had all sorts of crackling issues in Sonar and the set up was far from easy.

Glad to see the back of it when I sold it.

Cubase SX3. Terrible experience. Constantly disappearing off the screen, very buggy.

FWIW on the same hardware I had no such problems with other music software packages.

Cubase 4 however was a very different experience. Stable, elegant...very impressed. Maybe Steinberg have sorted things out now.

[mutilatedlip]

Not so much a mistake, but I built a new computer and switched to Vista 64 Bit with a big lump of RAM and I love it completely.

However, my Virus Ti is yet to have drivers that are compatible. I'm gutted, and I really can't be arsed with dual booting, so it's a waiting game and I only have half a synth.

My own fault, admittedly!

I too switched to Cubase 4, and I find it an incredibly powerful piece of software.

[Monarch]

Originally Posted by mutilatedlip

Not so much a mistake, but I built a new computer and switched to Vista 64 Bit with a big lump of RAM and I love it completely.

However, my Virus Ti is yet to have drivers that are compatible. I'm gutted, and I really can't be arsed with dual booting, so it's a waiting game and I only have half a synth.

My own fault, admittedly!

I too switched to Cubase 4, and I find it an incredibly powerful piece of software.

Funny you should mention Vista 64...

I could almost mention Sonar 7 in the regret category but only for the x64 version. As soon as I loaded up Sonar (on a quad with 8GB of ram) my entire PC started crawling. I was absolutely stunned. It was slower than Vista x86!

I just could not begin to guess why such a powerful machine was struggling. Drivers? Sonar? Memory? I was pretty desparate but starting to suspect it was indeed Sonar as everything else on x64 Vista simply flew.

After going through a very frustrating time indeed trying to narrow the problem down it turned out that Sonar's Bit Bridge was hammering my PC.

It would appear my CPU was hit hardest as 8GB of ram can be accessed by Sonar and Vista (up to 128GB each) but Bit Bridge has to be used for x86 VST's like RMX and that just completely slowed down Sonar. The more VST's / VSTi's used the slower Sonar gets.

Anyway I then had to strip out all the VST's + VSTi's in a current Album project (about 20 songs) it took absolutely ages.

Once I had done that and could not see a *Bitbridge 32* or similar indicator in the task manager then Sonar really started to fly. Thankfully Sonar has quite a few native x64 plugs but...I think there are some plugs that are just not x64 native yet in Sonar.

Session drummer 2
VC-64
DSP -FX (about 3 or 4 plugs)
Perfect space (Reverb)

There are others as well I think.

Hopefully Sonar 8 will address some if not all of these issues. I would probably have kept Cubase but there was just too much duplication with Sonar. Might have another look in future though.

[e-vinyl]

behringer b-control deejay had to sell it a month later as the store did not accept it

[waxxy]

i just bought the onyx satellite ..what a pile of cack this thing is,,,for one theres little to no controlable interface on your pc you only have a choice of playback/record quality and a very bad latency option.so not much use.

you try and record at 96khz and you get lots of hiss so useless.

when you try and use it with your daw i can get a maximum of 3 vst instruments or fx and 4 audio channels running at the sametime and my computer begins to slow down..keyboard/mouse become sluggish.any more and my pc locks up and restarts it self.

i bought this because of all the glowing reviews it recieved in mags like future music and i needed a really good quality input to my daw and this seemed perfect for the money but now i wished id saved my money for something else.

[FrankGIK]

I just thought of another one: Mackie's digital mixer. What was that thing called? God it was horrible. I guess it sounded okay, but man...it was the hardest, most confusing console I have ever used in my life. To get everything into a "compact" (read: ugly, bulky and heavy) frame they put a fader and like one knob on every channel, plus a teeny tiny little LCD display over in the master section, so everything did like 8 things. You had to pass through layer upon layer of stuff to do *anything*.

We sold it on ebay a month later.

Frank