Firestudio Project

[josemitre@yahoo.com]

I'm trying to decide what to get here, I'm looking at the chart with all the features and what not and i'm really attracted to the price of the FIRESTUDIO PROJECT which according to the chart will be daisy chain-able to itself at least "coming soon" I'm thinking that I'm going to get it and in a long while when i need more inputs I will buy another one. Is there anyone here that really thinks that the FIRESTUDIO PROJECT will never be daisy-chainable to itself? I'm currently a Mackie user, and I didn't like the way that they released drivers which created unwanted quirks, but reading all the posts, i'm starting to become fearful of presonus as well. All opinions welcome, thank you.

[piersonm]

Daisy chaining has been "coming soon" for quite sometime with the rest of the products. As far as the FSP goes, it just came out not too long ago, so it is VERY hard to know when the "coming soon" will become "now here". My advice, if you want more than 8 channels at a time to record with, go with the regular FS and add a Digimax when your ready for the leap. Youll spend more, but youll also get more (quality, monitor options and total of more tracks)
my2sense

[vcovco]

As far as I've been told, the next release of driver should have the daisy chaining feature. We've been told end of the year as far as the release date for firestudio project. Seems like Presonus is working hard on both the firestudio 2626 and project drivers.

The bottom line is you'll have to take a leap of faith with ANY firewire interface you buy. I read the Mackie forums and was THIS close to returning my firestudio project to buy an onyx 400f, but in the end, I liked the price point, I love the fact that it has 8 usable pre's compared to the Onyx with only 2 pre's at $200 more, and it works well on my system...it ended up keeping me ;)

Simply don't buy from anyplace that does not have a no-hassle return policy and try it out for yourself. Although the project and 2626 are 2 totally different products, they both use the DICE-II and Jet-PLL chipsets and share many driver similarities and quirks from the parent company tc technologies who designed these chips.

Judging by the angry firestudio users running the previous driver and from what I see in the "version 3" driver that shipped with the Project (seems on par with the version 3 sdk offered by tc technologies,) things have improved.

Hopefully things will get even better in the next release...