Decent sound for the buck! No problems yet after 1 and 1/2 years. Recording with Adobe Audition 3.0 Pro at 32bit multitrack can produce studio quality recordings.

You can record multitrack and send a different mix of the board to another receiver - ex: video recording.

A kid can use it!

Excellent quality!

Worth every penny.

None needed yet..

Not sexy for you? It's not your girlfriend....

Recording Engineer

Live Sound

Sound is good so far using with Sonar 4 Studio.

A little confusing on getting the recorded audio with the mic ins and my midi sound to the speakers. Guess I have to read the manual.

You have to get the latest drivers from Alesis website or it ain't gonna work right!

For what it does it's great! I have only used it a few times since I just got it but so far so good!

Asked support about the drivers before I bought the unit but they never responded. They must be busy.

Hobbyist

Rock and the wave

I've had this product for SEVERAL years. It still runs and sounds like i bought it yesterday. I've only had 1 other mixer i can compare it to sound wise (using the same monitors) and there was no noticeable difference. No noise increases etc.

Shame they discontinued it - It is the perfect middle ground in comparison to the models they continue to make (8 channel and 16 channel etc)

It works like any mixer out there - only snags i've ever had were firmware updates.

Still running like i bought it yesterday after several years.

The best bang for buck at the time of purchase. I haven't regretted this purchase one bit. In fact, Its such a "rare" item - I can apparently sell it for more than I originally paid for it after looking at what others are selling these for online.

They were not easy to reach. I sent them 8 emails and never received a response to one. I posted on forums regarding a small snag i had and eventually figured out the problem was my firewire cable on my own. Granted this product has been discontinued for quite a long time - but I expected them to at least help me and attempt to answer my questions.

If you can find one and you have no need for a 16 channel mixer and an 8 it too small. Then this is probably a gold mine to you.

Producer - own my own label.

All styles.

Reasonably low noise on the mic preamps. No Sound problems.

Great features - it's full-featured mixer AND a FireWire audio interface. Even with a cheap recording tool like GarageBand, you can simultaneously record multiple tracks plus the main-mix outs (with 2 effects loops.) I don't know why people are paying twice as much for firewire interfaces with half the features.

Make sure to download the updated drivers. On a Mac, installation was super-easy. I think the horror stories you hear about the drivers were about previous versions. Mine seems to work great!

Metal case can take a beating. Alesis quality.

Unfortunately this model has been discontinued which means that it's deeply discounted to get it out the door. You can't find a better deal right now! It's half as much as the Alesis IO26 with twice the features!

Great documentation in manuals and on-line. Never had to call anyone on the phone.

Looks great. Works awesome!

Active Musician

Rock