Great interface 
by John from North Carolina, August 2008
Music Background:  Active songwriter/producer

I took a chance on this interface after the price was reduced quite a bit, and I was very pleasantly surprised. Easy to setup and use, with good sounding mic pres and midi i/o, I find myself using this over my more expensive FW interface. With transport controls, function keys, and jog wheel, the FireOne puts a lot of control and features at your fingertips.

  Great product! 
by Johnny from Birmingham, Alabama, August 2008
Music Background:  Home recording

I just bought the FireOne ($99.00) to begin the world of computer based recording at home. I have a Tascam hard disk recorder - DP01 FX/CD, but I was never happy with porting WAV files to my PC with USB. It just took too much time. The FireOne is a great solution for me. It takes up much less room, it has 2 headphone jacks and now I can record in 24 bit mode. I did have issues with the Live Lite TASCAM edition software. I can only record 4 audio tracks and 4 midi tracks total. This was very disappointing and the upgrade was too costly. I chose to purchase Steinberg's Sequel 2 (absolutley great piece of software) for $99.00 and now have unlimited tracks and it works great with the FireOne. I am new to PC recording and have never experienced latency. My DP01 has no latency. This really bugged me until I figured out how to avoid it. With the FireOne, it is simple, just turn the volume down on the track (PC mixer track in Sequel 2) you are recording and turn the MIX knob (FireOne) to 12:00. The MIX knob blends the input sound from the FireOne with the output sound from the PC, but with the recording track turned down you never hear the latency! The sound is also great. I am not a professional, but I can tell you the recordings so far sound great. The sound does not blow away other recordings I have done with the DP01. They are just as good as the DP01 and I was very happy with the sound of the DP01. I have played with the buffers to deal with latency during recording and pops and clicks during playback. It is very easy to understand. Less buffers = less latency and more buffers = less pops and clicks during playback. I have found a happy median with my buffer sizing and have had no problems since. This was a very quick thing to correct. I have made use of the controller features of the FireOne also. Play, Record, Forward and Reverse have been assigned with ease in the Sequel 2 software. Sequel 2 has a learning feature for this. In all, I am very happy with the FireOne/Sequel 2 combo.

  Fireone use. 
by Kent M. from Kansas, May 2008
Music Background:  semi-pro Recording Engineer, Musician and student of the art

The Fireone is a reliable portable recording interface. It works only in ASIO mode and when I bought it they were advertising that it would record at 192Hz. So far it only is supported for 96Hz. I wonder why they advertised the 192? That was one of the main attributes I was looking for and that is what swayed my decision to buy the Fireone. I have have also always been happy with a Tascam purchase. The Fireone has good preamps and more capability than what I use it for. Though I am happy with the purchase I would have rather paid less for it or be able to record 24/192. I have never been able to get Tascam to tell me why the unit does not do 192. It is really good for editing.

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