I found this site searching for "Alesis multimix class action"
Alesis manufactured a bunch of these worthless pieces of crap. There is a reason they stopped making the multimix 12 and multimix 16 . The firewire crapped out on mine while it still was on warranty (barely). They fixed it, and two years later, the firewire crapped out again. Now I have an overpriced mixer, which will probably fail also.
I had tons of problems while it worked too... system freezes, crashes, slow unstable system..... All of this magically went away when I went to a PCI based MOTU system.... Before I could not see a performance difference between my Quad core AMD Phenom 9500-based system and my old P4.... The Alesis was that much of a bottleneck, i.e. when it still worked.
Does anyone know a lawyer who wants to take on a class action? I wouldn't mind getting some of my money back for this waste of desk space.
Prior to all of this, I was a huge Alesis fan, and have tons of their other gear. This left such a bad taste in my mouth that I have decided to boycott them.