Carolyne,

I know my way around lots of different audio/midi interfaces. In my opinion, the mixer application that comes with the Saffire Pro is one of the most difficult to use in the industry.

Because of my employment, I had access to one of these free of charge for as long as I wanted to use it, when my firewire laptop was still breathing.

I wasted probably 3 evenings of 2-3 hours each trying to make that Saffire Pro 24 (we have the 'DSP' version) work for my very simple setup at home and I failed. Very simply, record one or two channels at a time, while monitoring said signal through phones. Never got that to work reliably; meaning - that monitor section is quite complicated and I thought I had saved a working setup, only to come back the next night and no-can-do. Wasted another bunch of time trying to get it to work all the while the muse is off on a smoke-break. After the 3rd night of the same frustration, I was done. Took it back to work.

If it is any consolation to you, I actually make walking around money as a hired gun audio guy and I've seen my way around plenty of mixing applications for all kinds of live sound and with home recording audio interfaces. I'm the kind of person that downloads manuals BEFORE I buy or use equipment.

There must be something so obvious about the device that it doesn't require addressing in the manual that I missed. The device has great reviews at Sweetwater, however none of the reviewers seem to be doing what you are attempting and what I attempted.

Sound-on-Sound's brief review points to a gripe with the control software, which is reviewed in detail on the Liquid Saffire 56 review in Sound-on-Sound as counterintuitive (agreed). http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may09/articles/liquidsaffire56.htm

I realize that this doesn't help much, but perhaps it offers a bit of kindred soul consolation. Where did you buy the unit? Sweetwater have particularly helpful tech support. In the reviews are several folks who have given praise and given their full names. I have on one occasion tracked down a particularly savvy Sweetwater reviewer that provided their full name and city of residence and chatted about the guitar I recently purchased from Sweetwater before I made my purchase.

I wish you the best - here's hoping that you have more success than I did.

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