Features Of The M-audio Profire 2626

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The M-Audio Profire is both PC and Mac compatable. The complaints that came in from the Profire 2626 were about the driver compatability issues but since 2010 these have been updated and are available from thje M-Audio website.

By just looking at the name of the Profire 2626 you'd automatically think it can record 26 tracks... not really. It can record up to 12 tracks at the sampling rate of 88.2 or 96 kHz and up to 18 tracks at even lower sampling rates.

Now you could get up to 26 tracks by using both the Profire's on-board mixer with your DAWmixer. Great for things like recording a drum kit with lots of mics and a band live off the floor, or just to have in your control room for things like vocals and guitar, keys etc.

There are two main features which I think anyone would agree really sets the 2626 apart from other interfaces in this price range: Quality mic preamps and the on-board mixer.

All technical stuff aside, the important thing is the great overall sound quality. The Profire 2626 is equipped with premium A/D-D/A converters (audio to digital, digital to audio) and this is where the real quality comes from.

As a stand alone 8 channel pre-amp it can be connected directly into your first 8 ADAT output channels. Then use the line,instrument/mic ins (with pre-amps) with any other piece of digital equipment.

For me, the best feature of the Profire 2626 is the onboard mixer. It lets you pre set up to 8 mixes (stereo) and recall them at any time.

You can route 52 audio streams and send them to 26 hardware outputs and with the mixer you can select any of the 26 hardware inputs and 26 software returns as sources for any of it's 18 input channels.

Adfter checking around I found it a tough one to beat considering features versus price and overall quality.The M-Audio Profire 2626 isn't the best Firewire interface out there but if you need a versatile audio interface to run with your DAW for use on a live location recording and/or in your studio then this will more than do a good job.

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