Presonus Inspire GT help!

[dkerwood]

I just picked up an Inspire GT from GC on green tag clearance. They (GC) tell me that they're a limited edition... mine has a red logo on top rather than the standard blue and mine also has cool flames printed on it. Nifty.

Now, the real reason I'm posting. It appears that the drivers for this thing are set up as two drivers, each with two channels (stereo pair). Am I going to be able to use this for 4 channels as advertised, or is this thing limited to 2 simultaneous channels?

I first started wondering about this when I couldn't get the included Cubase LE to recognize channels 3 and 4 (the RCA inputs on the back without a preamp). So I went to old reliable, Windows Sound Recorder, and discovered the two drivers. I haven't tried this with Adobe Audition yet, because I haven't installed it on my new machine.

Any thoughts? If I can't record 4 simultaneous channels (the GC guy told me that I could), I'm afraid it's going back to the store, and I'll start saving for a Firepod or something.

 

[Bulls Hit]

Are you sure the limitation isn't with Cubase LE? They've wound a lot of features out of that in the hope you'll upgrade to a more expensive version. Try downloading Reaper for free and see if it works with that

 

[dkerwood]

It's a definite possibility. As I said, I haven't had a chance to install Audition on my new system to see... I'll check out Reaper when I get the chance.

The Presonus website doesn't address this specifically, but it does talk about daisy chaining up to 4 Inspires to get "up to 16 simultaneous channels", which certainly means that each box should be able to do 4 simultaneous channels.

If I can get this to work, I'll head back to GC and try to pick up another box. Heck, 8 channels of FW recording for $300? That's crazy cheap!

 

[EdWonbass]

You might need to go into VST Inputs and activate the other two. Hit F5 and check to see that they are all activated. I think you usually activate inputs in pairs.

BTW Cubase LE does have limitations when compared to SL or SX or Cubase4 but only allowing two inputs is not one of those limitations. Really, the biggest of those limitations is the number of insert effect slots and the number of send effect slots. Also if you're a softsynth guy I think you might be limited to a lesser number of VSTi slots as well.