Hi everyone...if I get a Mackie Blackbird Onyx or similar device with firewire/usb, can I plug an external hard drive into it and record directly without a computer / DAW? Is this possible on any recording interface (other than the expensive hard drive ones)? Thanks.
As Tim O'Brien and Mo Facta say, very few interfaces are designed to work this way. If you think about it, unless the interface has the control features you normally use a computer for, how do you route your channels or hit record (or playback)?