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M-Audio Firewire 410 Mobile Recording Interface

FireWire 410 is a FireWire-compatible audio/MIDI interface that has it all- power, flexibility, compact size and low price. Its 4-in/10-out configuration with preamps is perfect for personal recording, routing discrete outputs to a mixer, or directly driving a surround sound system. Learn More...

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10

Individual User Ratings

Overall:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
2 headphones jacks ... digital in (optical too) ..and more . It has all. Umbeatable for the price.

Quality:
Quality is ok. Only the connectors seems not so solid.

Value:
it worths the price ( actually worths more)

Desirability:
it is nice

Sound:
It sounds ok. low noise and flawless

Ease of Use:
You need a little practice with the software. Hardware is easy to use.

Support:
If you looks on m audio web site you can find many answers.

Overall:
I like the shape, the sound, the very very wide features. You need really take care of following : NEVER DISCONNECT OR POWER OFF THE DEVICE WITH THE COMPUTER IS ON. You can easy damage your firewire card ( or your motherboard). You MUST have a fireware card ( or motherboard) with Texas Instrument Chipset ( TI Chipset), Pyro, for exaple. If not you will have a lot of scratch and noise, Impossible to record !!. So don't start to work around drivers and similar stuffs...power on and power off... and so on. If you got problems , 99% are related to firewire interface.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
I wish I had bought one with more inputs, but I have a mixer as well so I make it work. It seems to be a pretty rugged box to me.

Quality:
My first one got pretty badly abused and is still working fine after four years. The second one is also working great.

Value:
The price is comparable to other's like it.

Desirability:
It's pretty much a plain-jane silver box.

Sound:
I have two of these. The first one I bought four years ago. I went through hurricane Wilma, got soaked, dropped a monitor speaker on it and smashed the top in. It still works fine, but I bought a second one just in case. OK, it doesn't have 128KHZ sampling...

Ease of Use:
The software works most of the time. Seems like the problem is that the hardware needs proprietary drivers. It would be nice if M-Audio were to redesign it to use standard firewire drivers so it could be used with 'nix boxes other than Mac. Sometimes it will interfere with other firewire equipment in the chain, and the computer will have to be rebooted to get them back.

Support:
I have not had to deal with them directly.

Overall:
I keep looking for better, but haven't found better for the price yet. As I stated before, I hope they fix the driver's issue to make it compatible with standard ieee-1394 drivers. No latency ASIO is great to have.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10

Feature:
Has everything a home artist would need.

Quality:
Very well made.

Value:
The Best for its price

Desirability:
Very nice looking product.

Sound:
It sounds Really really if you know what your doing, and have been doing it for awhile.(goes for any decent audio interface) But this one is especially good sounding.

Ease of Use:
It is very easy to use. BUT, M audio really needs to get their act together with the drivers. Bunch of uninstalling and reinstalling. EVENTUALLY after the first week or two you computer gets the hang of things and you dont get as many troubles. The frist month was horrible. but now its fine. Kinda of a odd thing to happen but i guess its good. and the mac OS X are good its just the windows ones.

Support:
M audio will help as needed. just be ready to wait for a few on hold.

Overall:
You honestly cant beat it for the price. The bad reviews are pretty inaccurate. It seemed like most of the stuff was comming from people that are new to recording at home.

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Overall:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Features:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Quality:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Value:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * . . . . . . 4 out of 10
Support:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10

Feature:
This thing is junk. The software has all kinds of bugs that should be easily fixed, but an updated driver hasn't been provided in well over a year.

Quality:
I very rarely complain about products I purchase. Even if they give me a lot of trouble or malfunction too soon after the purchase. However, this particular product is hands down the single worst piece of worthless crap I've ever purchased in my life. The product has caused me nothing but problems since purchasing it and the support M-Audio provids is terrible.

Value:
Put it this way. I will never buy an M-Audio product again.

Ease of Use:
It might be easy to use if it worked.

Support:
You kidding me? This product is so jacked up that the guys over at M-Audio don't even know where or how to begin providing support for this thing.

Overall:
Stay far, far away from this product.

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Overall:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Value:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
I Want It:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Support:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10

Feature:
If it worked as it should

Quality:
1/4 inch jack socket strain is taken directly by the PCB solder pads (which break after about a year) had to solder them back. This would be rectified by simply fitting nuts to the jacks.

Value:
poor

Desirability:
Only got it still so I can run pro tools

Sound:
Nothing special

Ease of Use:
Drivers on OS X are the worst I have ever encountered.

Support:
Don't even bother

Overall:
Don't go near M-Audio unless you have to (ie pro tools).

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Overall:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Quality:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Value:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
I Want It:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10

Quality:
So poorly designed that it is dangerous to your other hardware, and the manual admits this; go read it yourself before buying the product. Software misbehavior on hot-swap is a mild aggrivation, but frying other hardware is just not acceptable.

Value:
Buy this, and you might also be buying a new computer to replace the one this device fried.

Desirability:
Macbooks are sexy. A device that frys their firewire ports is decidedly un-sexy.

Sound:
Sound is irrelevant once the device frys your laptop's firewire ports.

Support:
The product is unacceptably broken and dangerous to your other hardware, and they admit this in the manual. Support is irrelevant; they should immediately taken the product off of the market.

Overall:
Dangerous for your other hardware, and marketed dishonestly; honestly would require that the fact that this device can fry your firewire ports be plastered all over the box, if the device stays on the market at all.

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Overall:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Quality:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Value:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10

Feature:
Lots of outputs Cheap knobs Binking blue light

Quality:
It looks ok. Nothing has physically fallen off or broken. Of course, you may feel like throwing it or kicking it, so it really should be more ruggedly designed. Very poorly designed internally or the drivers just aren't good - I don't think you should buy it.

Value:
I paid 200 dollars. It's not worth the hassle I've had with it. I recommend you buy something else unless you feel lucky.

Sound:
Sounds fine when it works.

Ease of Use:
It's easy until it stops working properly. Could be difficult to install drivers (you may need to use a Camcorder style Firewire cable and use Power Adapter to get your computer to recognize the 410). I figured this out after HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS of fiddling with driver, firewire cards, different operating systems, 4 different computers (all new/newish). I have a dual boot computer Vista and XP, the 410 has worked with XP although it has suddenly decided to send only metallic, low level audio for some reason (unusable, unlistenable). The Vista boot works however... for how long, who knows. This is a TOTALLY unreliable unit. It may work for you. It may not. It may decide to work then suddenly not.

Overall:
I read reviews, some good, some bad. I didn't have alot of money to spend and I thought that those people who had problems were just unlucky. That was a mistake. You might get lucky, apparently the 410 can work really well. I like it when it worked - but even though it's only 1.5 years old, I will buy a new sound card as soon as I can.

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Overall:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Features:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Quality:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
I Want It:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Sound:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Support:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10

Feature:
Wore out after just one year.

Quality:
Product is very cheap. 1/4" Inputs started to fail after 1yr. Then the unit just stopped working altogether. I still have it if anyone wants it. Not sure what to do with it.

Value:
Wore out after just one year. No return. Caveat Emptor.

Desirability:
Wore out after just one year. No return. Caveat Emptor.

Sound:
Wore out after just one year.

Ease of Use:
Wore out after just one year.

Support:
Wore out after just one year. No return. Caveat Emptor.

Overall:
Wore out after just one year. No return. Caveat Emptor.

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Overall:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Quality:
* * * . . . . . . . 3 out of 10
Value:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
I Want It:
* . . . . . . . . . 1 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * . . . . . . . . 2 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * . . . . . 5 out of 10

Feature:
pre-amps work and have decent amount of gain but don't sound anywhere near special. 2 headphone sockets and seperate volumes, is good although one stopped working properly, pretty early on in the units life! pad switch is very usefull if only because of the units inability to deal with HOT volumes at input. I have found that it is impossible to use the units midi capability with its audio. I have used a seperate midi interface for midi input and the 410 for midi output (this configuration gave me the least latency)

Quality:
Not very robust and headphone socket intermittent after only light use. I'm not sure if it's the drivers or the hardware but, it doesn't work to an acceptible level. i've downloaded the latest drivers and iv'e tried it on a few pc's and it has never worked properly. crashes often or very often!!!!

Value:
it's a real chore to make a recording and to work on it.

Desirability:
if you don't know that it doesn't work then you may want it for it's apparent features but it really dissapoints.

Sound:
Does not operate at +4 dbu. i find that the pre-amps clip before the level meter in my DAW reaches 0!!!!! also i have to operate my focusrite pre-amp at lower levels than ideal in order not to clip it. sounds ok otherwise. not as good as emu 1212 or motu 828 (old one). better than audiophile 2496 in my experince.

Ease of Use:
It crashes ALL OF THE TIME. I MEAN ALL OF THE TIME!!!!!

Support:
i've never tried... perhaps i should have. a bit late now i reckon. until i tried the motu and others, i didn't realise that soundcards were meant to work well.

Overall:
My pc's built in motherboard soundcard sounds much better and is more stable to work on. I'm telling the truth, even apart from the crashing issues with the 410, when i take a mini jack from my pc's back into my mixer and into my monitors, it sounds better!!!

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Overall:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * . . . 7 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * . . . . 6 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
great features, two headphone output, 2 simultaneous input and 10 outs. When it want's to work

Quality:
Looks good, could of made the knobs more sturdy When it wants to work!

Value:
i would of given it more credit if i wasn't having so much problems with it since i've got it

Desirability:
got it and now maybe i would love to trade it in

Sound:
Sounds good when it wants to work

Ease of Use:
very easy to use When it want's to work!

Overall:
This product could of been any daw greatest companion. Except for the occasional Hi I am working today and goodbye I am leaving on a unannounced vacation and won' t be back until I say so. I've read bad reviews about the 410 before and dismissed them thinking that it was just problems with each individuals set-up but now realize that everyone is having the same problem. M-AUDIO ROBBED US ALL! They should have a re-call on everyone who has purchased the 410

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
For the price of this you get so many inputs and outputs with outputs being the most. 24bit audio which is great, most programs support this audio range and i use sonar 6 which is perfect for this interface. I love the two headphone outs and the two mic/in's. Just seems like this great peice is balanced perfectly.

Quality:
Overall i love m-audio interfaces they do take abuse but like others say its electronics. It only takes one transistor to get knocked out for electronics to fail but with m-audio i banged it around a little bit and it is still working fine. I regret doing it though because it is a sexy looking peice of equipment.

Value:
For the price you get a lot here. You may not notice it if your new to audio interfaces but this is a complete sound card too. I took my old soundcard out just to use this exclusivly. It has many inputs and outputs plus it sports 24bit audio. I think its only $100 more then their newest products the USB Pro's and it supports more features.

Desirability:
Already own it and if it fails, which i think it wont, i would buy another one. It's just that good.

Sound:
The sound quality is great. It boosts 24bit and up to 192khz audio quality. The mic inputs are quite and soft and if you have a condensor mic your going to love the preamps.

Ease of Use:
You have to have some experience to use these interfaces but overall after sitting down with it for about a week you'll pick up quick. It was a big change from my MobilePre USB. I have to buy a six pin firewire card since i use it on a regular PC, but it worked right away. You have to have a six pin firewire card, if its four pin you need to use the external power which makes it hard to use if mobile.

Support:
Never had to use it because i am pretty tech savy so i figure things out on my own. I'm sure m-audio would provide great support seeing as they're a astablished company. They been out there a while and protools is there trademark that THEY designed.

Overall:
Overall this product is highly recomended. I've owned previous m-audio devices including the MobleUSB, and MobilePRE USB, and would never go back to USB. Firewire is simply the best, you'll won't get that many clips and it has great speed. The firewire 410 is my interface of choice till they come out with a new firewire interface, i would probly try that.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
Value:
* * * * * * * * * . 9 out of 10
I Want It:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Sound:
* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10
Support:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10

Feature:
All manufacturers include digital and analogue ins and outs in their stats, and blaming someone else on your assumptions is comical. Two headphone outs is great. 8 outs for mixing outside the computer and a through port for the firewire are good facilities. Bus powering make this great for use with laptops sporting a 6 pin firewire port.

Quality:
Been worked hard for 3 years. No trouble. Being bus powered, I have yet to use the supplied PSU, but I presume it would last.

Value:
No obvious beater available.

Desirability:
I wanted it, and if I didn't have one now I would buy one.

Sound:
You won't get any better at this price range. Mic pres are quiet and full.

Ease of Use:
I have been using this on many macs for over 3 years, so those not getting results on macs leave me puzzled. PCs and firewire is always a game of luck, but it seems fine on our Shuttle PC. ALWAYS download the latest drivers rather than use the driver CD.

Support:
Not bad in the UK. people that know what they are doing. Driver development slowed dramatically when taken over by Avid. No surprise there then....

Overall:
Quality for a bus-powered interface.

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Overall:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Features:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Quality:
* * * * * * * * . . 8 out of 10
Value:
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