Mixer FireWire I/O Card

The Mackie Mixer FireWire I/O Card adds FireWire capability to your Mackie ONYX 1620, 1640, or 1220 mixer.

ONYX FireWire

If you record and produce music on computers, this user-installable 24-bit/96kHz FireWire I/O card will give you the ability to send up to 16 individual channels of high-quality digital audio direct to any FireWire-equipped computer from your ONYX mixer (Windows XP or Mac OS X.3 or later).

You can also send a Left/Right stereo quick mix to the computer. A level trim control boosts or cuts the mix by ±10dB as it is sent to the card, letting you set levels independently for the live L/R mix and the recorded tracks.

Better still, the FireWire interface returns 2 channels of audio from the computer to the mixer, letting you monitor your computer through the control room/phones matrix. With FireWire, ONYX mixers can record everything from live gigs to studio sessions with higher quality and lower latency than many dedicated computer audio interfaces. (In fact, an ONYX 1640 mixer with FireWire rivals the specifications and performance of dedicated studio A/D converters costing more than the entire ONYX 1640 mixer. Not to mention giving you way more channels and flexibility.)