Originally Posted by
Kent F
Hey Richard,
Just saw this thread tonight. I have the series iii 16 channel board. It's still relatively new to us. We use it primarily for live mixing from stage for our family Gospel bluegrass band but are now recording a project with it. We use the included Capture program for recording... then we'll bring the audio into SAW for editing. To your question... I have not been able to successfully get SSL and the board to talk with each other. So, no recording/mixing with it in SSL via USB. Sigh. I've tried all the different options I can think of including Asio4all. Despite this, it's an amazing board, and Capture is a dream to work with for studio recording. It's not an editor but a well-designed tool for what it does. It punches in and gives you "handles" to slide the boundaries of what you've just recorded, or recorded over top of... guess you'd have to try it to see what I mean. Anyway, works great for our needs. But again, not as a SSL interface at this point. Sure hope that changes. In the meantime, I'm interested in interfaces for editing and monitoring that work well with SAW.
Kent
Kent, thank you for that reply!! I think this to be exactly what I need to know. I believe I understand you to say that SAWStudio does not "see" the USB device input in order to allow you to record and play back through the mixer. This is exactly what I was afraid of; that SAW requires a specific format for the ASIO driver and PreSonus doesn't use it. I did write the company a year or so ago and all they would say is that the drivers were "class compliant". That didn't tell me much... I had specifically indicated what SAWStudio needed, but they didn't bother to answer my specific question.
Frankly, I'd LOVE it if the Series III could be used as a controller, but that wouldn't be essential. But to not be able to record to SAW is definitely a major downside. Curiously, how do you monitor your audio that's been brought in to SAW if you can't get it into the board? Do you use a separate interface/converter?
Thanks again for your input.
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