I'm trying to pick out a good fire wire based interface to run with cubase. Any suggestions? And what's the difference between them. What makes some better than others?
Since I'm Pc, the Apogee is out for me. Rme looks like a dream; Although I was trying for under 1k, on a bit of a budget. If they all say their 24bit and 192khz; do the cheaper ones not stand up?
Basically you're paying for the inputs and outputs available, quality of preamps and quality of converters.
Focusrite Saffire and M Audio Profire 2626 are pretty popular on here. Both are good enough that they wont get in the way of you making good recordings.
Read the PDF manual learn how to use mix control it's really awesome once you learn how to use it but if you don't know it's probably going to piss you off