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Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 Firewire Audio Interface  -  FOC SAFFPRO40 LIST
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Jarry Dee from Michigan
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? this Pro 40 feels as good as the Liquid saffire 56, I own both! Very solid!! Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? I love everything about this unit, the one thing I would change is I would have inputs one and two on the back of the unit! I dont care for having cables running around the front of my desk! Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Very easy to use, the Mix control software can be confusing if you want to do crazy routing but for normal use the default preset wqorks great! Value Was this item an overall good value? Well considering this is pretty much the same as the liquid saffire 56 minus the 2 liquid channels and a few other options and..I paid a grand for the 56....this thing is well worth the money! Appearance Appearance Looks great, i AM NOT THE TYPE THAT REALLY CARES ABOUT LOOKS, THE SOUND IS WHAT MATTERS!!
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Valet from Las Vegas
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? The Pro 40 is very well built. Knobs feel great, sound is great. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Number of outputs, Perfect for mixing. If I had a choice I would add another light pipe I/O Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Very easy to use, The video explains everything you need to know to get up and running Value Was this item an overall good value? Bought this interface Dec 2010 and haven't use anything else since. It's what I've been looking for, it works with all of my recording softwhare. Amazing sound quality. Very easy to use. And it comes with some very cool plug-ins. Appearance Appearance Lights up my Rack.
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Mike O'Hara from Lehighton, PA, USA
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? I've only had a few weeks with mine, but every indication is this product is extremely solid. The pots seem very tight, the exterior finish of the product is high grade, and all pre seems to respond flawlessly. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? The best features of this unit are the quality of the mic pres (for the this price range), the stability of the drivers in Windows 7, 64 and the infinite signal routing possibilites the device has. If I would recommend a change, I might suggest the Focusrite revise the software mix control to provide a simplified/basic routing setup, and then the option for an advanced routing(current state) in another tab. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? The product setup is a breeze. The only tricky part of this device is that all of the routing options for the signal can over complicate the set up of the device within your DAW. While working in PT 9.02, It was more challenging than normal to mute unwanted signal while recording (input monitoring off). The product makes it very easy to get high quality, big house productions on a portable set up. Value Was this item an overall good value? Overall, the product presents the very best value in it's class. I replaced my PreSonus Firestudio Project with this device, and I couldn't be more satisfied at this point. Appearance Appearance The box presents a study exterior, with a high quality professional exterior finish.
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Jaroslav A Benes from Phoenixville PA USA
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? The Pro 40 is made well and deisgned well. You have A complete 5 stage led read out for each channel which for the money coupled with the pre-amps is tremendous. Also i like that the rack ears have covers so if you don't want to rack mount the piece it still looks nice. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? The preamps are clean. The level meters for each channel are clear and accurate. The connections are all neutrik type connectors so you can plug XLR or TRS into the Pro40. Big plus on that. The staggered up and down channel knobs is a little strange but it works. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? This is were I felt it could use help. Hardware wise the Pro40 is a champ. Software wise, trying to route and communicate effortlessly with my M-audio projectmix was sucky. I got it to work but not without little help from focusrite. Thats the only downfall to this product and sadly i feel many other standalone interfaces when trying to integrate into your system. Value Was this item an overall good value? Excellent value. Price was right. I almost bought the Presonus 8 channel equivalent and had all kinds of sync problems and the pre-amps sounded too unnatural so i sent that back and purchased this. It was well worth the change of heart and the money. Appearance Appearance I love the blue. The level meters look great. The knobs feel good. Its doesnt feel ceaply made. Its not the most beautiful out there. There are other interfaces with prettier appearances but your purchasing this for its sound quality so to me esthetics were least important. That being said I must say it looks great in low light with the meters going off.
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Shawn Holyfield from 8619 Delamere Lane, Charlotte NC 28269
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Seems to be well made I only had it for an week but all the caponents are solid Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? I love the mixer and 2 headphone mixes separate from the main outputs and you still have 8 direct outs which works perfect with my 8 buss mixer Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? I am running Windows 7 64 and Sonar8.5 I couldn't get it to find the Firewire until I installed an firewire PCI card it wouldn't recognize the Firewire on the motherboard ...but it works great now no issues..It only took a few of minutes to get comfortable with the unit and software Value Was this item an overall good value? Yes a GREAT value for all you get with unit ...I may buy another Appearance Appearance looks great
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M Bean from Salem, Oregon USA
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? The pots & jacks are smooth, the whole construction feels very solid. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? The monitoring software is amazing. The flexibility of routing & the # of unique mixes you can send to the # of outputs is incredible, The pre-amps are top notch, as low of self noise as you could imagine humanly possible. No coloring of the source at all. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Fantastic on all counts. The monitor mix program took a little while to get the hang of. I think its mainly because it takes a bit to realize just how much its capable of. Having only one day with it before tracking a band probably didn't help much either. It is quite a testement to Focusrite's design that I could get through two sessions at all considering, & it went very well. Value Was this item an overall good value? Absolutely. I can't beleive they can give you something so capable for so little. I will probably get another to have more inputs and a back-up. Appearance Appearance Not my main concern, I'va always been a "function before fashion" kinda guy, but its sure nice on occasions such as this when you get both. Very presentable.
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Chris Abt from Secane, PA
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Great preamps, lots of i/o Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? The routing is a learning experience, but once you get the hang of it, BAMMM. You can do anything! Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? A learning curve indeed with the routing using the software. Value Was this item an overall good value? OMG. Value is amazing. Swapped a 828Mk3 for this. Saved $300, and AMS price matched another price so I got more off the final price! Appearance Appearance Pretty
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The Truth from Los Angeles, California
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Metal chassis and yes it is well made and yes it is dependable. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Best features? Somewhat ease of use and if I were to add any features to this unit, focusrite would havr to pay me first. Nothing in life is free. Lol Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Eaase of use was somewhat. I tried to change the outputs for say a set of outher speakers but did not happen. Yes I read the book... Value Was this item an overall good value? Value? It is a good value especially what you pay for it BUT... I feel if a company sells a product be it in the States or otherwise you should a telephone number for support. Are you seriouss? The only way to contact them is through email and at first they werer good at getting back but became worst from than on. That is one of the reasons I no longer have it. If you are in the entertainment industry you should not have too wait a couple of days or weeks to hear from anybody you but products from. I do not know what is worst, a company with no telephone number or talking to some jerk in tech support with a attitude who charges you to have a conversation with them. They may be the industry standard but that is another product for another story. This is just my honest thoughts on this product and until they can get telephone support I will not buy any of their products. That is why I gave the company more than the product a low value score but since the product represents the company. Appearance Appearance I do like the sexy black look.
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Blake Duncan from Lagrange, GA
Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Metal chassis, connections seem solid and I like the dual XLR/1/4" line input jacks. Barring falling in a large body of water, it would seem to function 100% for a long time. Features What do you consider to be the best features of this product? What features would you add to this product if you could? Upgraded from the Saffire 10 i/o which had numerous latency issues. Dual XLR/1/4" Line jacks - 2 on the front and 6 on the back. LED input level meter on the front and two separate monitor outputs. I can't think of any additions I would make to the unit. The Saffire software interface is very detailed and nice controls for every aspect of the module. I gave it four stars because I couldn't get the Pace VST Plugin Authorisation to work! The site "asked" for the serial number which is located on the bottom of the unit but the field length would accommodate all but two of the characters and then told me it was invalid. I finally had to uninstall the software/reinstall and move the Saffire VST plugin folder out of the VST Plugins... little bit of a pain but it worked. Ease of Use How easy is this product to use? How easy is the product to use with other products? Did it take long for you to learn to use this product? Was the manual helpful? How playable do you consider this product to be? Pretty Easy in Windows XP - failed for Windows 7 - don't ask my opinion of Vista (YUCK!) I had it out of the box, connected, drivers in and recording through it in about 45 min - 15 min of that was trying to configure it in Windows 7, the drivers are not Windows 7 friendly - hopefully that will change after October! Value Was this item an overall good value? For what it is, what it does and the stuff that comes with it - I would say good value. Appearance Appearance All black chassis, faceplate black with bright LEDs and the LED input level meter... dang sharp. Looks better (in my opinion) than the Saffire 10 i/o.
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