Kie Onyx 1620I Serial Number Formats

Kie Onyx 1620I Serial Number Formats

But the difference can only be known from the different serial number formats so thats a bit of a sneaky feat from Mackie IMO.

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I first thought I have to adjust the latency but that isnt the problem.

The audio output gets crackling not only in the DAW but also when using e.g.

Tunes routed to CTRL Room Out.

Well today I learned that there are two different versions of the 1640i, both recognized by different serial number formats.

Unfortunately Ive caught one of the old version which obviously is not compatible with later Mac OS versions.

There is also no driver and control panel software for this version.

Feels to me as if Mackie had to admit at some point that their 1640i is buggy and unstable and cant be fixed so they just make a new version and hope that users will just drop the old one and buy the new version The problem besides that I only learned just now about this issue is that you cant see the serial number before buying the mixer.

I hope the seller accepts to have this mixer exchanged back to cash even though I already threw parts of the package.

This is most annoying since I have to repack it again, send it back, get my money back, find another seller who sells the new version and Im without a mixer for a week or two.

I was looking forward to the 1640i because it was the only compact mixer that has 16 channels Firewire io and integrates well with the DAW.

Thats a bummer. Are there no firmware updates available to bring it onto the same page as the later version units I had a first gen Mackie 820i and truth be told it was a rock solid interface.

Not once in my two years of ownership did it even glitch once.

Seems very unusual that the same piece of equipment with the same name would have two different capabilities.

Sounds like you bought the Mackie Onyx 1640 mixer with the Firewire card.

Theres only one i-series 1640, the Mackie Onyx 1640i and it sounds like the seller mislead you a bit or you didnt do research before hand.

Actually, I think Mackie did a solid by introducing a firewire card for the existing Onyx users so that they could take advantage of the ADDA IO that the new i-series users were getting.

You know you can get a new Onyx 1640i for 1599 at Sweetwater, right Somethings not right here.

Seems the older model that i have here has no firmware update option.

See the details about serial numbers here: Mackie - Onyx FireWire.

The difference is the 1640 has a removable FW card (sold separately) And the recording path is pre amps to FW card.

Each channel has a button to select recording path as pre ampFW output or pre amppost EQpost insertFW output.

If you want post insert but no EQ there is also a ch EQ inout button.

Mackie Onyx 1620I Driver Update