Just for giggles

[FrankH]

I just found this. We were debating making this the next big thing in October 1999....and then everything went south. I may have posted this or something like this before. I just thought some of you would get a laugh out of it.

Carry on.

[Petersueco]

Wow. What a beauty!

[phantomrage]

I find it amusing that presonus jas taken a lot from the d8b and put it into the studio live platform. Fat channel comes to mind.

[FrankH]

Most likely because the late Bob Tudor was director of technology for Presonus during the development stage of a lot of their current product lines. Bob wrote the software for the D8B when he was the head of the digital department at Mackie. When I first showed Bob my initial concept drawings for the organization of a single channel view for the D8Bs GUI, he said: "Wow, that's fat lookin'...it's a fat channel". That's how it got its name.

[Crash]

Bob was quite the character.

[funk]

looks great.
the next generation, if only mackie kept it going.
could of been by now
a 16 bus, 6 card 48 in/out, with usb and probox and wifi, compleate with a 48 chan HDR ........perfect

[FrankH]

Besides the features suggested in the mockup, two things that were being considered were a dedicated DAC for inserts on the 2 Mix bus and a UFX-like card that had 4 stereo audio returns for external gear. It was to remain an 8 bus unit.