theonly thing i can see it doesnt have is hi-z (instrument) inputs so your son could plug his guitar/bass directly in to the board, but that can be solved by either buying an SM-57 microphone and/or DI-box (silent recording) :-)Ī similar and cheaper tascam mixer/firewire interfaceĪctually the most rad add-on rather than a DI-box is the line 6 pod, for $200 it's maybe the most popular (because it's really good) guitar processor effect today, and it can run straight into the alesis or other mixing board since it can convert the impedance of the signal from hi-z to line level. i havent tested the mastercontrol but the feature set is really really really compelling (btw, i think tascam even has one too in a similar feature set). doing these things with a mouse/keyboard really is not the best way to learn, and if you want the same thing in protools you're talking about > $2,500, or buying a mackie device to go with the presonus is also a few grand.
Mbox 2 pro incleded driver#
While about 88 of users of Avid Mbox 2 Pro Driver x86 come from the United States. Using mbox 2 with ableton Posted, When i just asiio to plug and play it says i have a corrupt audio driver and it crashes ableton when i try and select the.
Mbox 2 pro incleded how to#
However, I cant figure out how to configure Sonar so it recognizes the MBox as an audio input, for audio. Cubase 5 and Standalone ASIO choices, ASIO Direct X Full Duplex Drive Digigesign Eleven ASIO Generic Low Latency ASIO Driver Mbox 2 Pro In the 32bit environment with 8.0.3 Mbox 2 Pro worked. Sonar recognizes the MBox as a midi port, and it works perfectly for MIDI tracks. Im currently working with Sonar 3, but Im a newbie. the mixing board is designed to connect to the computer DAW software to let you move things without your mouse, which is awesome. The software installer includes 13 files and is usually about 3.79 MB. Using the MBox 2 with Sonar I recently picked up an MBox 2, but have no interest in using Pro Tools. so it's not expandable at all, complete vendor lock-in, except for vst plugins that would work in them all.Īnyway if you're considering spending the money for the mbox 2 pro (~$800?), I recommend you look at the alesis master control (url link below) which has 2 microphone inputs, lots of 1/4" inputs/outputs and it is a real mixing board that can give real hands-on feel to recording/mixing music.
the DAW software interface for recording is really important though and protools hardware is good for protools DAW software ONLY.
if you pick a presonus device, the firestudio project is a great choice for a gift.
i've been doing computer recording for ~10 years now btw and have used lots of interfaces. I have a presonus firestudio (not the project version) and am pretty happy with it.