My current set up is a Mackie Onyx 1640 with FireWire interface directly into a late 2011 MacBook Pro with Logic recording software. This rig has facilitated 16 simultaneous channel live recording in my rehearsal room for many years. And I really like the analogue desk with which, over the years, I've become so familiar. We do mostly live recording and 16 channels is the minimum I can get away with. My MacBook Pro recently gave up the ghost, so, I'm intending to buy a new MacBook Pro which of course will be Thunderbolt 3 / USB C equipped and I will also probably take the opportunity to upgrade to the latest Logic Pro X at the same time. My big problem is, as I understand it, a new MacBook Pro will not talk to my current Mackie desk via firewire and so I shall need to upgrade the mixer desk at the same time. This is where I've been having problems and need some advice ! Does anyone know of a decent (and simple to use) 16 channel (minimum) desk that would simply plug into the new MacBook Pro using a thunderbolt 3 cable and give me the same simple and instant 16 channel Logic recording facility I previously enjoyed with the now obsolete firewire ? . . I've been looking on line but bizarrely I cant seem to find anything that would do it ? What I don't want to do is buy into a mega complicated digital desk with layer upon layer of confusing menus to go through, I'd much rather stay with something as close to my analogue Mackie as possible ? Thanks, NostromoUK
