Over a year and a half ago I had to shut down my home studio because I was building a new home and thought I would be out of commission for about 3 months. Well that turned out to be 18 months.
After setting up my studio in the new location I found out Presonus is no longer supporting my StudioLive 16.4.2 firewire mixer. That being the case and since I have been a Presonus customer for over a decade,
I thought it might be best to stay with Presonus equipment. Besides the mixer I own Presonus monitors, microphones, Faderport8, Atom and use Studio One as my main DAW. I used the StudioLive firewire interface as my audio matrix connection to the computer.
To solve this problem, in a somewhat budget friendly manner, I thought I could:
1. Purchase a StudioLive 16.0.2 with a 16x16 usb connection to the computer, or
2. Just use my current StudioLive without the firewire connection and take the stereo out into a new Presonus Quantum interface.
The only problem with option 2 is losing the 16 x 16 firewire audio from the mixer to the computer.
I hope all this makes sense....
I sure would appreciate any thoughts on how best to proceed.