TC Electronic Konnekt 24D

[dolivas]

I know everyone and their grandma is putting out audio I/O cards now but this one looks really cool. Part PowerCore DSP, part 6-in 6-out plus digital ins and outs. A whole lotta attention to detail and it retails around $499. You can daisy chain a couple together as well and it literally does what Focusrite did recently which is take whatever crap MBOX should be doing and does that plus adds stuff most people don't expect to get which is DSP effects chips:



Any thoughts on this unit?

[Nubus]

Having built in effects is a nice bonus.

Some observations: This has adat i/o, a big miss from the new mbox . one thing that mbox DID get right, which was left off here was the word clock link. Too bad if you wanted to chain up a whole mess of digitalness, including those 16 track adats your high school band recorded. As a stand alone unit this is tops because you can (hello) actually use it stand alone. mbox makes a nice doorstop on its own i believe, or did they finally fix that?

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by Nubus

mbox makes a nice doorstop on its own i believe, or did they finally fix that?

i think they actually made it worse... new mbox is lighter in weight than the old MBOX

[smopo24]

has anyone actually used this here? are the dsp effects up to snuff with the usual tc electronics gear, or did they cheap out on the chips to reach more people?

[abarnett]

I think this device is great as an interface. The pre's are super clean, but a bit low on headroom. I didn't get to use the DSP at all because it was crashing my friends old version of cubase sx.

Now my friend's computer has gone crazy and I would blame it on him before I'd blame it on the drivers. TC Electronics seems pretty solid and he's always downloading crap.

[abarnett]

Oh, but its not 6 in 6 out. Its 4 in 4 out plus stereo digital. 1 and 2 are either/or mic/line.

[abarnett]

Aparrantley most people with Intel Macs are having driver issues with this guy. The solution involves turning plugin mode off.

Bummer.

[abarnett]

Update:

I've gotten this thing to run well now with no buffer issues. However I can't use the DSP ( which I don't care about anyways). The downside is that one of the input jacks already has a bad connection. It seems like in general the method of construction has sacrified user servicability. Then again, who is making an audio interface that is user servicable?

Still Hardware seems shoddy.