![]() ![]() ![]() The MBox Pro 3 had just revealed a mix problem I hadn't noticed before. I just didn't notice it before! Holy smoke. ![]() So I compared with the Steinberg/Yamaha and to my shock and awe, I found the exact same artifact. In fact, my heart fell a little bit and thought maybe the Mbox Pro 3 really sucked like its prior generation. In one of my mixes, I noticed a strange high-frequency artifact that I hadn't heard before and immediately thought the Mbox Pro 3 was to blame. So I compared the Mbox Pro 3 to that level. There are other good ones in this price range, and you can do better for a lot more money, but Steinberg/Yamaha hit one out of the park for that market class. The Steinberg/Yamaha units have set the standard for conversion in this price/class of unit, IMO. On first pass, I was impressed, and ran it up against a Steinberg MR816/Yamaha N12 and at first, I thought the converters were a little bit too harsh for my ears. I can confirm some of the dawbench results posted in the dawbench forum that the Mbox Pro 3 is getting some unusually good latency performance with driver 1.0.11 - right up there with the best firewire interfaces! What a shocker! Someone at Avid did a decent job on the Windows drivers, I have to admit. I've been testing it against several other interfaces in the studio, and even running TAFKAT's dawbench benchmarks ( ) to get a feel for low-latency performance. Performance/latency on Win 7 圆4 has been surprising, to say the least. I haven't yet tried it with Sonar or Live. I've been testing it heavily under PT9, Cubase 6, Wavelab and Reaper, without a single issue so far. The sound quality is light years beyond the previous Mbox series, and I've been blown away at how well it works with other apps. I just picked one up for a PT9 project I'm working on just for convenience (I usually use Cubase), and it looks like this unit may become a permanent staple of my studio. First, the Mbox Pro 3 is way better than I anticipated, so far. Just wanted to jump in here to second some of Craig's findings and add a couple of details I've discovered myself. ![]()
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