Windows 7 drivers now exist for the following units (click to download the driver):

While many computer manufacturers and music stores offer computers that have been optimized for multimedia and professional audio application, it is possible to create such a PC yourself without too much hassle. There are a few ways to go about it, depending on your abilities as a computer enthusiast and the amount you want to spend.

Although all of our units feature a 6-pin FireWire connection, users are able to use a 4-pin adapter as all data is transfered in these pins alone.  The additional 2 pins are for bus powering units, which none of the Helix Boards support and, out of all the Firefly units, only the Firefly 302 Plus is able to support.

The Helix Board’s FireWire connection is a IEEE 1394a standard, meaning transfer rates are up to 400 Mbits per second.

They do indeed.  You will just need to select the device from the “Hardware Options” menu and select In01 (meaning channel input 1), In02, In03, etc. as the source for each individual track.

The Studio Wizard needs to be plugged in and turned on for any of the routing to occur.

Phonic Firefly and Helix Board customers are in for a treat! Steinberg has just announced an upgrade of their Cubase LE 4 software – Cubase LE 4.1.2 – for the Mac and PC. It is now available to all Phonic customers who have registered their copy of Cubase 4 LE.

The PAA3 is a Type I audio analyzer, meaning it has accuracy margin of less than ± 0.7 dB (in other words, it is extremely accurate).  This makes it ideal for laboratory and field use, particularly in professional audio set ups.  The Type I rating, however, also makes it more than accurate enough for use when setting up 5.1 or 7.1 speaker systems at home.   The PAA3 function may also be used for measurement of building and enviornmental sounds, vehicles, etcetera.

You may download the sound test CD for your analyzer from our website at http://doc.phonic.com/.

Q: My computer is reading my Helix Board 12 just fine, but what software would you suggest I could use thats sophisticated enough to read the mixer and record at the same time?