Presonus Inspire 1394

Does anybody have any experience with this soundcard interface? I'm looking for the absolutely cheapest thing to record to my computet with. My uncle turned me on to this as he has a ton of experience with this stuff, but I just wanted to check here to see if anyone has used it. Thx.
# 1
I haven't used the Inspire, but I do have the PreSonus FireBox, and it works great! My only suggestion is to use TRS/Ballanced cables wherever possible, as the unit isn't grounded, and regular cables can cause a little bit of unwanted noise (doesn't show up in the recording though).
# 2
Hey prsplaya,I have a firebox,but can't get it to record well for the life of me.Ive used various programs including sonar 4,but crackles pops and audio failures plague me like a revelation angel.
Ive lowered/raised latency to little effect,adjusted the "cpu speed" everywhere from low to high and nothing seems to be cutting it...
Is it possible my motherboards audio or my creative soundblaster could be mucking it up?I have a very capable computer...not really sure what to do.
Any help or advice would be great.
As for the inspire,it looks to be a solid interface.
Ive lowered/raised latency to little effect,adjusted the "cpu speed" everywhere from low to high and nothing seems to be cutting it...
Is it possible my motherboards audio or my creative soundblaster could be mucking it up?I have a very capable computer...not really sure what to do.
Any help or advice would be great.
As for the inspire,it looks to be a solid interface.
Try once,fail twice...
# 3
I'm not sure what to tell you. I was having problems with dropouts and the audio "skiping" (best way I can put it) while recording, but then I started messing with the settings (don't remember which) and it works fine now. I'm recording at 44.1khz, which I think helped a bit. I also went through and made sure nothing was running in the background that didn't need to be. There are also a few more things you can do that they talk about on the presonus site. I'd suggest checking it out.
# 4

Hmmmmmmm, check out www.musicxp.net for ways to optimise your pc for home recording.
Also, make sure you have all of the critical updates for you computer from www.microsoft.com
Also, go to the presonous website and download the updated drivers if any...
I was having huge problems with my pc recently until I decided to reformat the drive. Now it runs better than ever! It was a major pain because I had to lose some software that I no longer had the licence keys for but if all else fails this could really improve your system.
Latency problems are mostly due to either RAM (how much do you have?), an old motherboard or chipset, a slow processor and/or software/hardware conflicts. You want the buffer size to be as low as possible and so the latency is as close to zero as possible. Give us some more details on your hardware (get it from System in the Control Panel).
Also, make sure you have all of the critical updates for you computer from www.microsoft.com
Also, go to the presonous website and download the updated drivers if any...
I was having huge problems with my pc recently until I decided to reformat the drive. Now it runs better than ever! It was a major pain because I had to lose some software that I no longer had the licence keys for but if all else fails this could really improve your system.
Latency problems are mostly due to either RAM (how much do you have?), an old motherboard or chipset, a slow processor and/or software/hardware conflicts. You want the buffer size to be as low as possible and so the latency is as close to zero as possible. Give us some more details on your hardware (get it from System in the Control Panel).
# 5
My pc is as follows...
amd 3200+
Abit kn8 mobo
creative audigy zs
1 Gig of ram
nvidia 7800gt
external hardware....Firebox,roland monitors,sony headphones(good ones)
software...sonar 4 pe,audacity,reaper,reason 3.0
amd 3200+
Abit kn8 mobo
creative audigy zs
1 Gig of ram
nvidia 7800gt
external hardware....Firebox,roland monitors,sony headphones(good ones)
software...sonar 4 pe,audacity,reaper,reason 3.0
Try once,fail twice...
# 6
Not sure what to tell you. I'm running mine with a laptop. specs:
HP Pavilion laptop
AMD Turion64 2.00 GHz processor
1GB RAM
128MB ATI video card
80GB Hard Drive
Sonar 4 PE w/ a butt load of plugins
recording at 24-bit / 44.1KHz CPU setting to Low, Latency set to it's highest setting (25ms I think), since how I record has no effect on latency.
HP Pavilion laptop
AMD Turion64 2.00 GHz processor
1GB RAM
128MB ATI video card
80GB Hard Drive
Sonar 4 PE w/ a butt load of plugins
recording at 24-bit / 44.1KHz CPU setting to Low, Latency set to it's highest setting (25ms I think), since how I record has no effect on latency.
# 7

Unless you have software confilcts or some out of date drivers I think your problem could be the creative labs soundcard... they are great for games and listening to music but are not made for recording. Even the flagship E-MU cards have had bad reports on latency and pops and crackles... is your creative labs card not supposed to dissabled if you are using another sound device? I had problems with the onboard soundmax until I disabled it and changed all sound functions over the my outboard gear. Start-Control Panel-Sounds and Audio Devices-Hardware
Make a note of any changes you make, I have no experience with Firebox so if the problems aren't solved you can always go back to the previous settings.
also, make sure you download the updated drivers for all of your gear, even souncards get driver updates and bug fixes on a regular basis.
The tweaks at www.musicxp.net are the best changes you can do to your settings, as advised by the official Cubase site. let us know if you have any luck.
Make a note of any changes you make, I have no experience with Firebox so if the problems aren't solved you can always go back to the previous settings.
also, make sure you download the updated drivers for all of your gear, even souncards get driver updates and bug fixes on a regular basis.
The tweaks at www.musicxp.net are the best changes you can do to your settings, as advised by the official Cubase site. let us know if you have any luck.
# 8
theoretically speaking, you can run as many soundcards as you like, as they all have separate drivers and separate resources assigned.
in practice, however, many of the system resources are shared and drivers have common files.
removing anything onboard and any other soundcards you're not using is a must for performance, and may be the solution if it isn't working at all....
Disable the onboard and the audigy....
That said, my PC sometimes get so twisted that a format of the disk and start again approach is the only thing that gets it going... :rolleyes: That could be your ultimate solution - and rebuild it without the additional soundcards.....
in practice, however, many of the system resources are shared and drivers have common files.
removing anything onboard and any other soundcards you're not using is a must for performance, and may be the solution if it isn't working at all....
Disable the onboard and the audigy....
That said, my PC sometimes get so twisted that a format of the disk and start again approach is the only thing that gets it going... :rolleyes: That could be your ultimate solution - and rebuild it without the additional soundcards.....
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# 9