Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is my second PRESONUS and both had issues with latency. I spent hours on the phone with tech support getting this to work with Windows 8. When I finally did get it working the sound was amazing. Crystal clear, no unwanted definition of either high or low sound. The preamps on this are amazingly clear. You do have to turn the volume up a bit (8/10 ) but not a problem for me. First recordings of 1 guitar, 1 vocal was very nice. But, going back to do anything on top of that gave me latency issues and the more I worked with the recording the worse it got. It does have a monitor knob on it that you can choose to hear what you are recording or just the tracks already there. I never got it working properly on the Windows 8 (does anything work properly with Windows 8?). After a week of pulling my hair out I decided to try it with my 5 year old (dropped) MACBOOK Pro. Install was a breeze and the latency issues were not nearly as noticable. WHAT I LEARNED ALONG THE WAY always download/install/update drivers/software before connecting device. Always use the device on the USB port it was installed on Failure to do this will cause many problems. I was able to get it running fairly well on the MAC machine but bot the Windows 8. If I had started with the MAC the latency wouldn't have been as big an issue. It was still lagging a bit but it wasn't nearly as much on the Mac. But, I decided to exchange it for a firewire or thunderbolt interface which promises zero latency, sell the new WINDOWS 8 laptop, and buy a new MAC.