Presonus AudioBox USB 96 USB Audio Interface

[jprieto]

I'm planning on buying this Presonus AudioBox USB 96 USB Audio Interface and wanted to know if anyone here had any issues that should be of concern to me -- such as drivers, etc ??

Thanks

[drumphil]

Presonus = trouble. Especially if you want low round trip latency.

In that price range, I usually recommend Focusrite Scarlett 2nd gen interfaces. But I don't deal with much gear in that price range, so somebody else might have a better idea what to get. All I know is I wont buy any Presonus audio interface. I've used some of their stand alone gear without any problems, but any time I end up using, or more likely being asked to look at because things aren't working as well as the owner expected, any presonus audio interface, I end up cursing Presonus. Loudly.

I don't know if it's a chipset choice issue, and can't be improved, or if it's just inefficient drivers getting in the way, but they could never manage to make a box with really good round trip latency. Most likely the chipset, but who knows. Well, I'm sure they do, but the rest of us can only guess.

[Stella645]

Originally Posted by drumphil

.... but they could never manage to make a box with really good round trip latency.

Actually they just managed to make a box with ridiculously low rtl...but this is not in the $100 price range and is tb only

[drumphil]

Originally Posted by Stella645

Actually they just managed to make a box with ridiculously low rtl...but this is not in the $100 price range and is tb only

lol.. so they after all these years managed to make a low latency PCIE sound card... How's that for innovation. They've nearly caught up with the M-Audio Delta 1010!

Shame thunderbolt connectors are even more unreliable than USB.

Anyway, I do have to give them credit for those latency figures. However, before I get too excited I'd like to see how much system load you can run before things crap out at the lowest latency settings. Assuming the performance under load works out well, I'd actually consider one of those for a permanent installation. I don't trust thunderbolt connectors enough for anything portable, but not such an issue in a studio... well, apart from Mac Pro type issues where someone goes to plug in a usb stick, and looks just a bit too hard at the thuderbolt connector, and everything craps out mid take. Stupid design those things.

[Philbo King]

They did me bad with the interface I got (AudioBox VSL 1818).

It works well for now, but... They hired a German firm to write the drivers, and will not update them any more, ever.
So, the next time my Windows goes obsolete, so does my Presonus hardware.

[Pictus]

For low latency there is a good thread at https://www.gearslutz.com/board/musi...a-base-52.html

[TheMaartian]

I have a PreSonus AudioBox 44VSL...in the closet. Occasionally unstable under Win7. Completely unusable for me under Win10. And they dropped support for VSL with the driver updates. I complained, mostly nicely, on their forum. That got me banned.

Works OK as a class-compliant device with Audio Evolution Mobile running on my Android tablet.

Agree with the others...no more PreSonus hardware for me.

[krahosk]

I have a FireStudio on my PC with a firewire card. Started well enough, but, as time went by, it ended with a lot of trouble. Went back to my M-Audio 1010 PCi. Considering a Focusrite product, utlimately.