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What's wrong?Ĭan any of the original Onyx users give me a detailed step-by-step to make the damn device work flawlessly under 32-bit XP SP3 with Sonar 8.5PE? ALso, the author od the thread states it fixes SP2 behavior but I used to have no problems under SP2.

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Should I reinstall the system back to SP2? If so, which version of Onyx drivers should I use? On Mackie forums I read about some FireWire fix but I was unable to find the fix package on the internet. I really don't know what to do since I've tried everything I could think of. Also, it doesn't operate in 24-bit no matter what I do - the status bar always shows XX kHz, 16-bit (I even tried to edit the config file manually but it still shows 16-bit even though there's 24-bit set in Options/Audio/General). I either have no audio at all (the track meters show nothing, nothing gets recorded, nothing get played back) or experience faulty performance (long pauses, Sonar's position cursor jumping instead of moving smoothly) or just digital distortion instead of anything else. I tried both the original drivers (which came with the FW card on the installation CD) and the most recent ones from Mackie website (1.1.1) - each time on a different disk partition. Now, I can't seem to make the Onyx work with my system anymore.

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I needed to reinstall the whole system and decided to upgrade to Sonar 8.5 (8.5.3) and also to go to XP SP3 (32-bit). Previously I was using my Onyx 1620+FW card with Sonar 7 on WinXP SP2, running 1.0.x drivers (the Onyx Control panel) without any serious issues, I could run at latencies, there were no drop out or artifacts. May I ask the users of Mackie Onyx FireWire card (the original one, not the new Onyx-i series) for help? Check out the chart below for a comparison of their features.After reinstall, Mackie Onyx 1620+FW card can't seem to work inside Sonar (XP SP3) The new Mackie Onyx mixers are set to sell for just $499.99, $599.99, $699.99 and $899.99, for the Onyx8, Onyx12, Onyx16 and Onyx24, respectively.

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On stage, their ability to accept a stereo audio stream over Bluetooth could come in handy for interval music, while the multitrack USB interfacing obviates the need for a separate interface, with the mixer itself will making it easy to set up up latency-free foldback mixes. Separate mix and control-room outs make these Onyxes suitable for both live and studio use. Channels 1 and 2 on each mixer can also accept high-impedance instrument signals, via their jack inputs and a Hi-Z switch. All the new Onyxes also have at least one pre-fader monitor send, with the largest model having two.Įach channel features switches for routing to the mix bus, mute and solo, a high-pass filter and, very usefully, EQ bypass.

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The per-channel send controls are internally routed to the effects (which include all the usual delay and reverb options, plus some modulation treatments), but the effects bus is also present on a rear-panel jack, should you want to use your own outboard processor. All can send multitrack audio of all of their inputs to a connected computer via USB (or to an SD card, sans-DAW), and they can also stream two stereo channels from your DAW.Īs is often the case on compact mixers, the input count is made up of a combination of mono and stereo channels, with the mono inputs sporting swept-mid EQs and the stereo channels having a fixed mid band.Īll the newcomers share the same effects engine, controlled using a colour screen and rotary encoder (with which you can also access the SD card recording options). There are four new Onyxes in the range: the Onyx8, Onyx12, Onyx16 and Onyx24, all named after their input channel count. The original Onyx 1620, released way back in 2004, pioneered the multitrack 'mixerface' format, but while that model used Firewire as its interfacing protocol, the new generation connects via the ubiquitous USB. Mackie's headline NAMM announcement is the resurrection of the Onyx range of mixers.

Mackie onyx 1620 firewire option card drivers