My new hakintosh ML is 99% fully functional, very quick and wonderful. My setup is z77-ds3h / i7 3770k / 16gb / 120gb ssd sandisk extreme / 2tb barracuda / a syba sy-pex30001 firewire the only trouble i got is with the firewire card/alesis firewire sound mixer i've downloaded drivers from alesis and installed them, but when select alesis interface in audio I/O system freezes and hang up dunno if trouble is from the firewire or from the alesis, read that syba works 100% OOB, so could it be alexis, if is this, why can i solve trouble?? Thx a lot for any possible solutions! Hi again, i've found that firewire card sy-pex30001 works ok OOB, the trouble is with the sound mixer alesis multimix 8 firewire. Read in that installing chameleon instead of chimera can solve trouble but i cant understand how to do it, i did it for 3 times and alesis is no recognized, that instaling chimera with ticking 'Easybeast Install box' will solve problem, but not for me, i saw alesis in sound devices for two times and then system hang. I also download the driver for macos 10.7 + and doest work either. I'm desperated, dont know how to solve it!!!

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Hello - I've recently purchased an Alesis HD24, and plan to record into it via a Mackie 32x8 board. Now, once the tracking is done, I'm hoping to move the song(s) to a computer (running Pro Tools). At that point, I'd like to use Pro Tools for mixing. So I'd be routing the computer's audio back through the HD24 (with the HD24 acting like a D/A converter), and feeding it into the 32x8 for mixing. Note: Apparently you can transfer HD24 tracks to computer via an Alesis Fireport 1394.

But in that scenario, what would you use to pass (in real time) those tracks back through the HD24 for mixing? And depending on the device, perhaps the Fireport 1394 wouldn't even be needed? Any advice will be appreciated! The fireport and the software is just a way to mount the Alesis formatted drives to a PC. It's a faster way to move the files across than the FTP.

There is nothing 'audio' about this connection, it's just being able to mount the hard drive to be able to copy the files from the hard drive to the computer. With patience, you can connect the HD24 with a crossover cable to a PC network jack and then move the files over FTP. It's pretty slow, but it works too. Your routing concept for mixing is a bit esoteric. While it might be possible with the right sound card to make that type of connection through the HD24 to route back to the analog mixer, if you got a sound card with 16 tracks of ADAT out - you probably got enough inputs to not even need the HD24 to track in the first place. I'd think the thing you could setup with that mixer and the HD24 is to have 16 tracks into the mixer going to the recorder and then have mixer tracks 17-32 to play back the HD24 when tracking without having to repatch. I got a couple of HD24s out of a studio a few years ago pretty cheap and use it to do that type of tracking then I just move the files over to a computer to edit and mix.

Thanks to everyone for the replies - and it's good to see that everyone agrees the Fireport is the best way to move audio into a computer. @ NashSG, I like the idea of 16 tracks into the mixer, and 16 for playback. And if I have things wired that way already, it makes the idea of running the Pro Tools tracks through the HD24 for analog mixing seem like it'll be nice and easy (no re-patching, etc.) @ oldhousescott, thanks for the suggestion of the HD24tools software. It appears the Alesis software won't run on my Mac's OS (which is only 10.6.8). But checking HD24 Tools, it looks like that will work just fine. @ Rex Anderson, you seem to have most clearly understood my desire for analog mixing. I mostly want to use Pro Tools for cleaning up tracks, muting tracks (rather than doing it on-the-fly via the board), and perhaps some mild compression.

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So streaming the audio back to the HD24 (or I have 2 ADATs that could be used too) and into the board seems like a good way to go. So I've checked out the options with at least 16 channels of Lightpipe i/o, and these seem to be the most appropriate (in the 'budget' category): - M-Audio Profire Lightbridge - RME Digiface - Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 I/O - PreSonus Firestudio Lightpipe (though these seem very hard to find) - MOTU 2408 Now that I think my use case (though it may be a bit unusual) is clear, if anyone has any comments on these products - or any other suggestions, I'll be glad to see that too. I set up 3 control rooms based around HD24XR machines. In the studios, we used them just for A/D and tracked to the DAW. The interfaces were RME Digiface. Each studio was set up with 2 HD-24's, one for A/D, the other for D/A.

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We mixed in the box and only used mixing consoles for routing (outboard processing, headphone mixes etc). Our DAW was Sequoia. At one point I used an M-Audio interface and felt it did not sound as good as the RME.

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I sold it and bought another Digiface. Of those you listed, I can highly recommend the RME. We used the HD-24's for recording when we were on location and didn't want to take the DAW hardware (computers, monitors etc). Then we used the Fireport to transfer tracks to Sequoia.

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We used the Digiface S/PDIF output to route our stereo mix to a Benchmark DAC-1 for monitor level control. Unless you have a great sounding console (the Mackie ain't no Neve), you may want to mix ITB. At least try it both ways. With my Zoom R24. The 'best' way to import your tracks from the HD24 to ProTools is to just copy them onto a SIMM card (they come up to 32 GB now) and insert it in your ProTools DAW computer and use the 'Import Audio' function.

I don't know if your Alesis hs a SIMM sow, but I assume it has some way to save files externally. You set up a new PT session, go to the 'import' function under 'file' in Protools, pick the tracks you want to import and select 'create individual tracks. Protools then imports each the audio file to a separate track leaving you with a brand new PT session ready to be 'saved as' I do this with my Zoom R24, it is cake. Also, if you want to send them BACK to your Alesis for mixing (after you have done editing, I assume) you just consolidate all tracks (to make sure you have solid, end to end tracks, not unassoiated punched in pieces) and use the same SIMM card (or whatever the external device Alesis takes) to open up a new session on the Alesis.