The Helix Board 12 FireWire is a
mixer developed by
Phonic Corporation
Phonic Corporation is a Taiwanese public company that manufactures and sells professional audio equipment, including mixing consoles, loudspeakers, studio monitors, and digital recording devices. Established in 1977, Phonic provided original eq ...
that features a FireWire Interface, able to connect the mixer to Windows and Mac computers. The product was released in 2005 and has since become a signature product for the company
Outputs
The Helix Board 12 FireWire has a stereo main output, control room output, auxiliary send, headphones outputs, RCA record outputs and alternate 3-4 outputs.
Digital Effects
A built-in 16 program, 32-bit effect processor is included with the Helix Board 12 FireWire. Effects include Hall, Room, Plate, Cathedral, and more.
FireWire Interface
The
FireWire
IEEE 1394 is an interface standard for a serial bus for high-speed communications and isochronous real-time data transfer. It was developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Apple in cooperation with a number of companies, primarily Sony an ...
interface allows all 8 inputs (counting stereo channels as 2) of the Helix Board 12 FireWire to be sent to a computer for recording, through its ASIO drivers (no drivers are required for the Mac). The main stereo output of your computer can also be sent through the FireWire interface, back to the Helix Board. The returned signal can be routed by the touch of one of the buttons on the face of the mixer.
The Helix Board 12 FireWire is bundled with Steinberg Cubase LE software for recording purposes, though it's suggested that users upgrade to SX or use other
digital audio workstation
A digital audio workstation (DAW) is an electronic device or application software used for Sound recording and reproduction, recording, editing and producing audio files. DAWs come in a wide variety of configurations from a single software pro ...
software.
System requirements
Windows
*Microsoft Windows XP SP1 or SP2
*Available FireWire port
*Intel Pentium 4 processor or equivalent AMD processor
*Motherboard with Intel or VIA chipset
*5400RPM or faster hard disc drive (7200 RPM or faster with 8MB cache recommended)
*256MB or more of RAM (512MB recommended)
Macintosh
*Mac OS X 10.3.5 or later with native FireWire support
*G4 or newer processor
*256MB or more of RAM
MKII
2006 saw the release of the Helix Board 12 FireWire MKII, which included additional features. Among these was a new DFX processor, pre/post switch on each input channel and a channel 9/10 assign switch.
References
Sound on Sound - Phonic Helix Board 12 MkII
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Audio mixing