Phonic Portable FireWire Unit FIREFLY-302

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• 5 in, 6 out, 24-bit/96kHz I/O
• Stereo headphone output
• Dual FireWire ports with bus-power

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Is this thing plugged in? I mean, it must be, because all my audio software works perfectly, but there aren't any little pictures or spinning things or eye candy to let me know I've got something hooked up. I guess Phonic are too busy making things that just work right to throw a few dozen latency-bloating apps into my system tray, but couldn't I at least get a useless mixer? Or a control panel whose only purpose is to play noise sequentially through each channel? Or just some light-blue windows like Creative are so fond of tossing around? Oh well, I guess this will have to do.

It works seamlessly with Live and Reason, and even my Windows games patch through the Firefly rather than the on-board once it's plugged in. My only complaint is the absence of a 1/4" mic-in for my unamplified electric guitar, which shouldn't be an issue if I use a 1/4"-to-XLR adapter or just amp the signal going into the line-in port.

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Works fine except you can control the volume of the iMac from your keyboard. The rest of it works pretty fine. I already have it since two years ago.

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Windows 8 was out before the Phonic Firefly 302 Interface...Phonic does not have a update download available that I can locate. Anyone have any idea when-where-or if an update will be offered? Nope. So if your interested in the PF 302 and have Windows 8 or you have upgraded to Windows 8, you better buy from a different interface manufacturer.

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Like the Firefly, Phonic as a whole (both as a company and in the cheap junk products they peddle off to consumers), is very skilled at one thing and one thing only. That being frustrating and insulting their customers with very poor products then not standing behind them and leaving them with worthless pieces of junk. With so many other options available (M-Audio, Tascam, Presonus etc.) take my advice and look elsewhere in which to spend your hard earned dollars. You will be SO glad you did !!!

This card is amazingly great. I previously tried an EMU 0404 but the Win7-64 driver didn't work. I also tried an M-Audio FastTrack USB, but the USB bandwidth sometimes exceeded (I have a lot of USB devices), and for some reason plugging in 1/4" output from Phantom-power box caused Win7-64 to crash with BSOD on both of two attempts (also, the ports are named & physically arranged in a way that is somewhat awkward). I wanted to find an external sound device with digital connection to PC and after much looking I found that the Phonic Firefly 302 Plus had good reviews and that the quality was great on YouTube demonstrations, and it also has built-in phantom power and Firewire. I got the device to replace those previous two devices, and when I got it from the mail I immediately downloaded the latest Win7-64 drivers. Everything installed & connected flawlessly without any issues. I turned on the phantom power switch, plugged in my phantom powered mic directly into it, chose the input using Audacity preferences, and hit record--the warmth & detail is amazing. It is better than anything I've used before, and there is no perceivable background noise or hum. The Phonic device has a clean sound and perfect usability.