Event Ezbus $100 Rebate, Only through January 31st! Options

[Levon River]

Event Technology is offering a mail-in $100 rebate on any EZBus purchased prior to December 31st. Since most places sell it for around $599.00, that brings the net price for the little powerhouse down to just under $500.00 if you want one and can act fast--and can find any.

I realize the time is short for this notice, but since, as usual, Event Technology's Marketing Director (if they even have one) appears to be working overtime to keep this machine out of the hands of potential customers, I just found out about this myself and I thought I ought to post it if only on a better-late-than-never basis.

For those who don't know, the machine is an audio interface, a standalone digital mixer, a 2 I/O MIDI interface, and a control surface for music software, all rolled into one compact package, with an amazing array of configurable bussing/routing options built in. It provides two channels of audio I/O to the computer via USB out of the box, and there is an optional PCI card (the EZ8) that provides multiple I/O with the standard digital I/O formats. There is no OS X driver for that card at the moment, but MacMusic's own venerable buserror was working on one the last I heard, so hope blooms eternal.

I personally don't know of any similar bang-for-the-buck item, so with this incentive and some Christmas money, I broke down and ordered one. I'll come back with war stories and show you my scars after it arrives.

[Levon River]

This thread is going wildly OT, if you don't mind, shall I move it to the proper OT forum?

Personally, I mind significantly. I posted this topic in the correct category, because it is about Event's EZBus, and, more peripherally (pun intended), about the companion EZ-8 card--both audio interfaces. I didn't steer it off-topic. I don't even consider that it now *is* off-topic, since it still is about the Event interfaces, including important factors keeping one of them out of the hands of Mac users.

Since I don't see anything else that can or needs to be said about your personal business and programming negotiations with Event, I think the topic should remain exactly where it should be: in "Audio, MIDI, DSP cards and interfaces," since that is strictly what it is about and has been about from the outset. The problems with Event getting a software driver for the EZ-8 card--whether from you or anybody else--is still entirely germane to it being an interface, since it ISN'T an interface for the Mac without said driver. But the EZ-8 was only a sideline commentary I made to begin with, since the subject is about the EZBus and a current rebate offer.

In fact, I think moving it would look...well, kind of like my old hound dogs out in the yard burying a bone...

This post has been edited by Levon River: Tue 7 Jan 2003, 17:51