PreSonus FireStudio Reviews

[mfassett]

Quality: 8


Reliability: 6


Overall Rating: 7
This is just sort of an update to my earlier review.

I replaced it with a Layla 3G which is great. I could never actually bring myself to sell the Firestudio for the prices at which it was going for on Ebay. After letting it sit in the box in the garage for nearly a year, I thought I'd try something.

I took it out, hooked it up via ADAT out and WC to the Layla, plugged in the firewire cable, installed the latest drivers, and went into the control panel and routed the analog inputs to ADAT 1-8 and saved that to a preset. Tried it, and yep - it's now basically a DigimaxFS. The routing is stored while powered off, even if you don't have the firewire cable plugged in. Only thing is that you have to plug in via firewire to set the sample rate.

Upshot is that I saved a couple hundred by doing this instead of selling it on ebay and buying the DigimaxFS which was my original plan.