Feature:
what no built in compressor eq limiting gadget? oh well.

Quality:
my kids kicked it and it still worked I dropped it a few times it still worked. I haven't drop kicked it or hit it with a hammer. I would also avoid pouring water on it (not a good idea)

Value:
the pantheon worked with my other version of Cubase so that was nice. i did not need the cubase le4 though...extra mic preamps if I need and it is easy peasy to use it oh yes oh yes

Desirability:
I would not stick anything but audio cables into it. I am not attracted to it or anything like that. that being said, I like the look of it on my desktop and my kids like that it looks like a toy

Sound:
sounds good. much better than my Audigy notice no difference between my MAudio delta 1010

Ease of Use:
I've been using cubase anyway so it was easy peasy to set it uppitty duppity doo

Support:
their text support rocks!

Overall:
I just dink a dink around wit it and do what it is that I do wit it in my studio. layin da beats dinkin tha vocals with da spit flyin' oh yeah it works great

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 5/28/2008
• Style of Music: electronication
• Location: California usa

Feature:
Dedicated guitar input x1 as well as XLR/Phantom powered mike inputs x2, 4 line inputs as well as Mike insert points x2 for external FX (IE Comp or FX on input), balanced outputs and dedicated 1/4" headphone socket.

Quality:
Looks really nice and seems to be fairly robust in design.

Sound:
Good musical response with inserts & phantom power for condenser mikes. As with all Lexicon gear the Mike input amps are pretty good!

Ease of Use:
There is a slight learning curve if you wish to input 4 lines or a combination of 4 direct inputs to individual tracks but if you read the manual and follow the instructions; once you've done it you shouldn't forget how to acheive it!

Overall:
The Lexicon Omega should serve my purpose for sometime to come. I record people and bands etc for a living and have always used stand alone eqipment except for mastering until recently. It is quite easy using the Omega to dump externally recorded tracks from any external recorder and then be able to manipulate them within Cubase, Cakewalk, MultitrackStudio or any other similar PC or Mac program.

• User: a customer from amosmultimedia.com
• Submitted: 4/27/2008
• Style of Music: Alternative Rock through to Pop.
• Location: Adelaide South Australia

Feature:
The reverb, as stated in the manual, only works with Cubase. It doesn't work with Live, FL-Studio, or Tracktion.

Quality:
Physical quality seems to be ok. Simply put, the USB drivers suck. No two ways about it. Latency, even on a highly optimized powerful system, is simply unacceptable.

Value:
If you use Cubase and want the reverb, buy it separately.

Desirability:
No.

Sound:
Like most other converters, this has a fair amount of power supply noise passed along in the sound channel when used with a laptop. You'll want to get a couple of DI boxes and use the ground lift to eliminate the background noise.

Ease of Use:
Ease of use is fine.

Support:
Upgrades to the drivers? Good luck.

Overall:
I will eventually replace it. And not with another Lexicon product.

• User: a customer from buffalo.edu
• Submitted: 3/23/2008
• Style of Music: Rock, electronic
• Location: Buffalo, NY

Feature:
I don't require a lot of features. I like that you can use it as a stand-alone mixer without hooking it up to your computer. The USB is nice. And people that say that USB 2.0 doesn't work as good as Firewire just don't know what they're doing. Period.

Quality:
Cheap plastic. I've had problems with this unit. The MIDI In quit working and the digital input switch got stuck. I had those problems repaired. Then the line-out developed a lot of noise and the right input jack developed a short. I've since replaced the unit.

Value:
This unit is a great buy. I had problems with the quality but that can't be true for all of the units.

Desirability:
Would be a LOT higher if the quality was better.

Sound:
Sounds just fine overall, but see below.

Ease of Use:
No problems. But, I know what I'm doing. Very intuitive for someone with half a brain.

Support:
Support was responsive, prompt and personal. Very good job.

Overall:
A very nice unit with good features and USB 2.0, which is just fine. But, the unit was not dependable and had some quality problems.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 10/31/2007
• Style of Music: Rock, Country, Varied
• Location: Apex, NC

Feature:
Everything about what is provided is versatile. The inputs? There's a switch right there on the front panel to allow you to choose between mono and stereo on them. Pre or Post? Your call. Other inputs at the back can be switched (1&2 or 3&4)... the clipping indicator and main VU meter are stellar... nothing to complain about at all.

Quality:
Yes, it's plastic.. but very thick plastic, with well designed footprint, balanced so it doesn't fall over all the time.. and doesn't overheat, etc. I didnt' notice any sense of loss for that it isn't made of metal, once I started using it.

Value:
At $199, this is a steal, just for the Lexicon reverb alone. Someone else said it could only be used with Cubase - NOT true. I use it with Sonus Producer, no problem or issue, and hope to continue to use it with other interfaces. That reverb alone is worth at least half the price.... but even without the Lexicon reverb, I'm stoked to have this unit.

Desirability:
My lust comes from what it does for me - which is to deliver a hassle-free interface. I just bought the Zoom HD16CD, which SHOULD have been able to perform as an audio and MIDI interface, but can't do either. Between that and it having NO (repeat, ZERO) aux inputs or effects returns, the Zoom is going back but I digress. Point is, this "old" unit does both, seamlessly, for far less money.

Sound:
The sound is impeccable, which is what I'd expect of something from Lexicon.

Ease of Use:
I'd give this a solid ten except that the drivers have taken a couple tries to install sometimes. It's kinda wierd... they don't install properly, and you don't have the Lexicon USB as a sound option. Then they do, and you can use it transparently, listen to media in your computer through it, as your main outs for everything.. or nothing. Again, your call. Once the drivers are in and installed properly, you're set. Just bear in mind that you have to know enough to know if you want ASIO or other options.

Support:
A solid 10. They offered to send me a new disk of drivers, and uploaded them to their site so I could download them immediately instead of waiting on the snail mail. Past that point I didn't ever need tech support, which is the best possible result.

Overall:
There is but one deficiency: They went with USB 1 to accomodate the Mac folks,and that, I'm told, is the cause of the miserable latency that I cannot tolerate (thus the purchase of the Zoom, to record acoustic tracks direct to disk without latency.) Alas, the Zoom doesn't have MIDI or Audio interface abilities, and I MUST have something. Since I sold this trusty steed a bit prematurely, I have ordered a M-Audio 410 firewire unit to replace this unit.. but reading the reviews, I'm already full of trepidation. M-Audio is no Lexicon, apparently. The fatal flaw is the lack of Firewire. Please, please, PLEASE, Lexicon, get me a firewire version of this masterpiece? I promise I'll never stray again!

• User: a customer from jatymusic.com
• Submitted: 10/6/2007
• Style of Music: Alt., Folk-rock
• Location: El Paso, TX, USA

Feature:
USB MIDI Latency because it is not firewire. Quantinizing is not working for me. Having a hard time making my own Drum loops. As a matter of my experiance so far, impossible. I was told it's because it is not firewire. So right now I'm dead in the water. No firewire feature.

Quality:
I like it's sturdyness. nothing has ever came unplugged without an effort.

Value:
Very good value for the money but like everything else It won't work for you. You have to work to make it do what you want. At least the weak links in the program can be modified for less money than most stand alone studios and it's compact.

Desirability:
Wow you said it all. Maybe a little too much because I was going to give it a 9 until I finished reading what it does for you. But I have "music mojo". Your gear as any gear helps but slows the music artist's flo, which make them "lineal"; very unsexy.

Sound:
The sound, monitors with all the EQ's plug ins, as expected, and if I want to pimp the recording /trak/solo or mix, it comes thru. I have gotten subs out of digitising a stereo tape cassette recording.

Ease of Use:
Works great up until I need to loop my own drum tracs. Then the sound recording has to go elsware to finish drum tracks. Can't get to final mixdown without other studio and help. A final mixdown recording will probably sound fantasmic when run thru after completed. Monitors, headphone, midi, pantheon, yeh what else. Its easy to connect too.

Support:
I go to a different newer Cubase demo site and see the improvements then decifer the differences and figure out what my software can do under my circumstances. Quality finish product is the same. Just extremely difficult with no help whatsoever. I have not figured it out yet.

Overall:
Good stuff but you need three computers: One for clean music because it takes all your memory just for tracs n retakes n possibles. Another for EQing, VSTs, instruments, sends, individual effects, only and some. Third for Mastering master effects sends n returns; That's one sentense" trac and sound placement/separation; "Not nessessarily in this order" Stereo, Surround, debth, warmth, final and permanent home for finished songs project/s and if you want to do your own artwork...Oh and you can plug and unplug this unit to every computer easily, and use it to make all these things happen on each separate instance in each senario of your recording. I read you can then go to video integration with it. An engineer would greatly help. The manual is 600 pages.

• User: Myspace/detjimmy.com
• Submitted: 7/13/2007
• Style of Music: shred/bossa nova/folk/rocker
• Location: Washington State

Feature:
Lexicon Pantheon plug-in. Once again. Lexicon Pantheon plug-in. Though you can only use this in Cubase (which is a bit depressing), the reverb from the Pantheon is 10 times better than any DAW I have worked on, which is most of them. I have used this reverb for sound design elements in film sound tracks because it can be very finely tuned. Get this box if you want the ability to do stereo recordings and run your midi controller in to control VSTs in Cubase. I use a pair of AKG 240DFs which are 2x600 OHM headphones. The headphone output has more than enough power to provide excellent sound quality and volume levels.

Quality:
Solid quality. I have had this for little over a year and it is like new. I not only use it as my recording device, but as my main sound output device for all sounds that come out of my computer. To put it plainly, this thing has gotten a lot of use and is still running strong. It is extremely well made and sturdy.

Value:
Only drawback is that I will be looking into getting a mobile usb/firewire device for location recording. The Omega is an awesome value mainly because of the bundled Cubase (which has the ability to have a video track to score to) with Lexicon Pantheon Reverb.

Desirability:
It is solid and weighs enough not to slide all over the place. XLR connectors are strong. Very nice piece of equipment.

Sound:
First off, I am an Audio for Visual Media major, and I purchased the Lexicon Omega to help with music composition for film. I have scored three films with it, and have been very happy with the sound. Anyone that knows anything about audio knows that Lexicon makes some of the best reverb units, which can really breathe life into stale home recording studios. The sound is excellent, leaving the quality up to your microphones and room condition.

Ease of Use:
Very self explanatory and easy to use.

Support:
Never had to deal with them, though the website is easy enough to google and download the Omega driver installers off the web. Always download the latest (non beta) drivers.

Overall:
This thing has never let me down. I have recommended it to many indiviudals, though make sure to checkout Lexicon's lesser units if you don't demand the features of the Omega and want to pay less. Those who need to work on Protools will be forced to get an Mbox or other Digidesign hardware, but if you are into music creation, get this with Cubase. Cubase is much more friendly to Midi and is an excellent music creation software, despite other reviewers negative comments. These comments are all based off of my experience with the Lexicon Omega on a PC.

• User: a customer from comcast.net
• Submitted: 2/5/2007

Feature:
You couldn't hope for a more full featured interface. However, this unit has serious windows combatibility issues (and that's from their tech people). This unit has not worked for more than half hour since it arrived.

Quality:
I can not speak well for the quality as it won't work here on our up to date, audio optimized PC. Perhaps MAC users will find this unit more useful

Value:
If you own a PC I would consider another unit

Desirability:
As audio interfaces go this one is very attractive. As a box of well connected but functionless parts, it's still attractive.

Sound:
This unit sounds fabulous when it's working.

Ease of Use:
This is not plug n' play and you know it. There is a learning curve. That comes with sophistication, a good thing... if it worked.

Support:
Email support is ridiculous. Broken english responses that take days to get to you. Very simplistic advice given in the begining, now they simply don't answer. My telephone call to them was polite, and the young tech who spoke with was very easy to understand. He stated there probably wasn't anything wrong with thier box, it must be my end. Aren't you sick of hearing that! No offer for money back, no offer for meaningful assistance. He made it fairly clear there was nothing they could do for me.

Overall:
I am not satisfied at all. And the tech person I spoke to on the phone explained that there was "rarely anthing wrong with units sent back for repair". However, if I liked they would take a look at it.

• Submitted: 12/19/2006
• Style of Music: most everything
• Location: MA

Feature:
As mentioned above, you can make do with the included software, but you're better off running something more powerful/competent. The Omega is capable of pro-sounding results, so it's good to be able to mix/produce those good-sounding tracks with some pro software. Again, for the money, this is the most bang for your buck. Just look at the image of the rear, connections galore. Contrary to what someone said above, you CAN record all four channels at once, but you only have two channels with the dbx pres. You can actually record six inputs at once (and lots of MIDI), but you'd have to mix a few inputs together to share a channel, so it's not something you're likely to do in the studio, but might come in handy for live tracking. Connections are straightforward, SPDIF in and out is handy, headphone amp is powerful enough to drive a couple headsets with a splitter. Front-panel instrument input useful for basses/electrics. Balanced connections. True 48v phantom power (as opposed to a lot of these units that try to power the mics from USB). It's a lot in a little box.

Quality:
It's svelte and solid.

Value:
Less money and more features than the MBox make this a high value. In the end, being able to track 4 channels instead of two is worth a lot, particularly if you're going to be tracking drums.

Desirability:
This unit has been the input/A/D core of my home studio for years, and I've had great results with it. I ended up getting a nice two-channel pre running into inputs 3 and 4 of the Omega and now I've got four channels of clear, phantom-powered input going into my DAW running Sonar 5. Perfect for my needs. It's also terrific for portable recording with a laptop.

Sound:
For the money, an incredible sound. The dbx preamps are clear and more transparent than I would have expected. The connectors and internal circuitry is all high quality and yields a clear, noise-free result. Don't have any qualms with the A/D converter either.

Ease of Use:
It's a cinch. Manual is basically unnecessary.

Support:
Their website is not much help. I'm glad they released ASIO drivers, because their original drivers could be glitchy with certain systems (thankfully never mine).

Overall:
I don't anticipate replacing this unit for years. Even if someday I expand to something with more channels so I can start tracking bands all at once, I'll keep this around for portable recording.

• User: a customer from zachbardon.com
• Submitted: 11/6/2006
• Style of Music: varies widely
• Location: Omaha, NE

Feature:
With the Omega comes Lexicon's Holy Mother Nice Reverb plug-in, which is pretty cool, I guess. Don't know if I'll need that much reverb, but it's good to have just in case. The software sucks to no end whatsoever. They'd probably do better just to sell the hardware and lower the price, because Pro Tracks doesn't even have a decent METRONOME on it!!!!! Grrrrrrr. . . . not to mention fairly confusing program to use, too. I was ready to smash the whole unit in frustration, and then I found Cool Edit Pro 2. So ditch the software, but keep the hardware, it's nice.

Quality:
It's plastic, shoot, but seems like it'll hold up as long as you don't play football with it. The knobs work well on it as far as I can see, and I haven't had any trouble with the preamp thus far. Wonder if you could shoot the Pro Tracks software with fully-auto, mercenary-styled weaponry. . . . that could be REALLY cool. . . . . Otherwise, I could put it in the cat's litter box for a target, but I don't think I want to offend the kitty's feelings so severely. . . .

Value:
Again, great preamp, hardware, and the Pantheon plug-in is quite cool. I HATE the software with a PASSION, for those of you who didn't get that part yet. . . . Again, if I wanted to really keep my customers pleased, and I were Lexicon, I'd fire Cakewalk and get a real company to make software- like Sirrilium (Cool Edit Pro 2).

Desirability:
Very sleek design. Takes up a whole cubed foot of space by the computer, if that, which works out nicely in my efficiency apartment. Looks like something out of Star Wars, but very good at what it does. Now, after spending the dough on it, I come to find that you can get similar items (USB recording interface/preamps) out there for less money, but you don't get the shiz-nitty software (awwww, bummer)- again, no offense to the reverb plug-in: it seems pretty nice. All offense is directed at Cakewalk's "Pro Tracks." However, you can get a similar set up that has Pro Tools on it for $50 more. Or there's a similar barebones USB recording unit that costs even less. I'd go with one of those units again now that they are available if I have to replace anything.

Sound:
The HARDWARE/pre-amp/whatever of this package is VERY nice. Clean and crisp. Easy to use. The software sounds OK, too, but for other reasons, I'd recommend different software.

Support:
Didn't contact Lexicon as I didn't need to, and they push off all the (known and anticipated, I suspect) software problems on the culprit, Cakewalk. Which is a heck of a strategic maneuver seeing how Cakewalk DOES NOT SUPPORT THIS ULTIMATE GARBAGE CAN SCUM OF A PRODUCT. No response from Cakewalk via email, and no one willing to talk on their (No)Help Line.

Overall:
Yeah, it's okay. Again, GET DIFFERENT SOFTWARE!!!! You will hardly be able to use Pro Tracks, no lie. But since it's bought and paid for, I'll use it until it dies or becomes ancient. The software might become a donation for the new Chernobyl experiment.

• User: a customer from hotmail.com
• Submitted: 12/21/2004
• Style of Music: Eclectic: mainly a mix of alt-rock, folk, and world
• Location: Eau Claire, WI USA

Feature:
It has everything a small band could ask for. I record basic drums and bass in our garage along with a guide guitar track, then we overdub everything else later on sitting in the nice warm living room. I wish it had two more mic inputs, but using adapters, we make it work.

Quality:
It is plastic after all, but I don't throw my equipment around the studio, so I expect it to last a long time. It actuall looks great on the desk too. Ths knobs are smooth and linear. Connections are positive and professional. It's an amazing piece of gear for the money.

Value:
I spent three times as much for an "all in one recorder/cd burner and couldn't get it to work properly after a year of trying and two conflicting manuals (thanks Roland) This is so easy to use, you'll be on your 30th track before you realize it. Great value.

Desirability:
This one addition to my studio has streamlined our recording time a great deal. The previous machines made it a chore to overdub. Now we laugh about it because it's so easy.

Sound:
What you play is what you hear. My bandmates are amazed at how clean everything sounds. We're currently recording our first CD on it.

Support:
Emails were answered next day.

Overall:
Every home studio owner, songwriter, solo performer, or small band who's fed up trying to make their all-in-one porta-type studios do what they need it to do, should try out this little beast. Guitar, Pod, Lexicon Omega, headphones, go. The only thing I will add will be a small piece of Velcro to the bottom so the silly dancing musicians don't pull it down onto the floor while rocking out. Buy a small headphone mixer for the band, some headphone extension cables, and call your friends.

• User: a customer from yahoo.com
• Submitted: 12/7/2004
• Style of Music: Classic rock
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