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Usually ships in 1 business days | | Only 2 left in stock, order soon! | | | | | | The FireWire Solo is designed from the ground up as an easy-to-use, high-quality interface for songwriters to record guitars, vocals and more on the computer. Compatible with most popular music software, this compact bus-powered unit is small enough to go anywhere you want to take your music. In addition to the 1/4" guitar input right on the front panel, a professional XLR microphone input also lets you record vocals and acoustic instruments. There are also dual line inputs for effects, drum machines and other outboard gear. FireWire connectivity, up to 24-bit/96kHz sample rate support and digital I/O all add up to outstanding sonic performance. As simple to connect and operate as it is powerful, FireWire Solo is the foundation of your computer-based songwriting studio. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Length: | 13.5 inches | | Product Width: | 9.25 inches | | Product Height: | 2.75 inches | | Product Weight: | 3.1 pounds | | Package Length: | 13.2 inches | | Package Width: | 9.2 inches | | Package Height: | 2.3 inches | | Package Weight: | 4.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 28 reviews |
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| | Features | FireWire audio interface for recording guitar, vocals, and more on Mac or PC music softwareFront-panel XLR microphone input with gain control and clip LEDFront-panel 1/4-inch guitar input and 2 rear-panel 1/4-inch line inputsDual FireWire ports for easy device chaining; front-panel switch toggles between front and rear inputsRack-mountable metal chassis; includes FireWire cables; 1-year warranty
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 28 customer reviews )
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48 of 51 found the following review helpful:
 Works great, sounds great Oct 24, 2005
By M. Clarke
I'm using this on an Apple PowerBook G4 with a 1.33 GHz processor and 768 MB RAM. I mainly record through GarageBand, and after about 10 hours of use, it has worked flawlessly so far.
Controls in front are intuitive. The clip LEDs let you know when your input volumes are maxing out.
Note that you can record only two sources at once: either the front two (mic and line in) or the rear two (two line ins). I initially thought you could record 4 simultaneous tracks with this. There is, however, a switch on the front of the unit that allows you to choose front or rear inputs.
There is an extra firewire plug in the rear of the unit, which allows you to daisy-chain several firewire devices. This works perfectly for me on my 12" PowerBook, which only has one firewire input.
Very low latency on this unit. I can play my electric through GarageBand's multi-effects units while listening on my headphones, and I notice almost zero latency. I'm anxious to try it on my amplifier, to see if it would be suitable for live performance.
I would recommend this for anyone who's thinking about getting into home recording. It's very well designed, well built, and should suit me well for years.
15 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 DOES THE JOB. Feb 02, 2006
By Sam
This is great for plug and play. It didn't take me long to figure the ins and outs. I found the latency is reduced with the firewire connection compared to USB devices. I haven't used the mic input yet but the 1/4" input for guitar and bass I have and the latency is close to nill. I have also used the S/PDIF in with my 2-channel mixer with turntables and it sounds great. Worth the invesment.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Very high quality product for price Feb 09, 2006
By A
The M-Audio firewire solo is a really great product for music creation and even for sound output to a stereo. installing the drivers can be tricky though unless you download http://www.m-audio.com/images/global/manuals/FWSolo_UG_EN01.pdf
The PDF explains exaclty what to do.
After I installed everything the M-audio worked flawlessly. I record my own music and also use it for better sound output to my stereo system. The result is clear proffesional recording sound quality.
I recommend it to anyone
10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Good price/quality ratio Nov 29, 2006
By Jonathan Chen
"book junkie"
As a newcomer to m-audio products, I surfed the net for good/cheap options so that I wouldn't spend a lot of cash in a product I hardly even knew. Thus far, the Firewire Solo has put a smile on my face and the bundled software really makes it profitable since you get a all-in-one kinda combo.
The bundled software includes a ProTools demo, a Live 4 demo which can be upgraded to the full version (great!), ProSessions demo and the GT Player Express. This last piece of software is mind blowing even in its limited demo version. The GT provides you with a limited yet versatile array of guitar effects that'll keep you happy for a longtime.
It took me a while to set this baby up since I didn't take the time to read the manuals and that gave me a headache since the thing wouldn't work properly; remember to download the newest drivers from the m-audio website to avoid any kind of trouble. The only reason I gave it 4 stars is mainly because I'm no m-audio connoisseur and couln't give you an expert's opinion on the in & outs of this thing, but so far it has worked wonderfully!
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Watch out for Macintosh Drivers Dec 10, 2007
By M. DeHaan
"diabolical hampster"
Each day I have to reboot my machine because the audio outputs either stop working or start to pick up a lot of noise/static. Searching around the internet seems to indicate M-Audio drivers for OS X are not to be held in high regard.
If you havea Mac, I would think twice about buying M-Audio audio interfaces. (For the record, I have OS X 10.4.11).
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