It's been a while since the first Onyx mixers with the FireWire option first came out, and now Mackie carries on with the Onyx 820i, which comes with Pro Tools M-Powered 8. Hmmso what does M-Audio think about that? So I just pulled my Onyx 820i out of service and am replacing it with a Mackie VLZ3 series mixer and a balanced sound card in my machine. It's a shame, because the Onyx is powerful board, but the level issue is a real pain and makes quite a mockery of one of this mixer's key features: Integrated Firewire and routing to/from it.
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