Unfortunately, if you were a Windows user and planned on using the unit to track audio via USB, you were pretty much fucked. Having previously owned a first generation Onyx 1220 mixer, I can attest to the build and sound quality of the mixer which is one of the main reasons why I purchased a Blackjack back in October of last year. This sucked because the unit itself is wonderfully built and comes with high-end AD/DA converters as well as boutique preamps that run on all Onyx interfaces. Even with subsequent updates to the drivers, the Blackjack basically was left rendered as an expensive brick. While Mac users raved about driver stability on OSX, Windows users have struggled to get drivers to run stable in both Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.
It’s no surprise that Mackie has been under the gun with Windows users ever since the release of the Blackjack back in 2010. Today Mackie has released an updated driver for their Onyx Blackjack USB recording interface and I have to hand it to them… so far it has been incredibly stable.
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