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PCMCIA Firewire
Hello :-)
I have a PC laptop but with no Firewire on the motherboard. I use a PCMCIA one for DV copy without problem, the computer is reasonably fast (dualcore). But for other use, Id est audio interface, I wonder if the PCMCIA Firewire is as reliable as built in ones (or if USB is as good for such things, given I wont use more than 3 / 4 tracks) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM |
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PCMCIA Firewire
jdd wrote:
I have a PC laptop but with no Firewire on the motherboard. I use a PCMCIA one for DV copy without problem, the computer is reasonably fast (dualcore). I have two laptop computers that are reasonably slow (Pentium 4) and use a PCMCIA Firewire adapter. It works fine for audio. Most I've ever pushed through it is 16 channels at 44.1 kHz 24-bit from a Mackie Onyx mixer. Anecdotal experience is that some combinations of motherboard (PCMCIA slot), Firewire adapter, and Firewire audio hardware don't work well together. You may get a combination that doesn't work well. Buy from a dealer who makes returns and exchanges convenient. You may need to do some mixing and matching. My anecdote is that I bought the cheapest PCMCIA adapter that my local store had (they had about 5 different ones) and I got a lot of clicks with the Onyx. I figured that it was the cheap adapter, so I exchanged it for the next most expensive one and still had clicks. So I tried another one and still had clicks. I'd done all the "optimization" tricks and played with buffer size to no avail. Eventually, I discovered that the clicks went away when I disconnected the Ethernet cable from the computer to my local network router. A new driver for the network adapter in the computer fixed the problem for good. I suspect that any of the PCMCIA adapters that I tried would have worked equally well. I wonder if the PCMCIA Firewire is as reliable as built in ones (or if USB is as good for such things, given I wont use more than 3 / 4 tracks) Not many people have anything good to say about built-in Firewire ports for audio unless it's on a Mac. Again, this is mostly anecdotal. USB2 seems to work pretty well, and in fact USB1.1 is OK for up to six streams (inputs + outputs) at 44.1 kHz. If you want to avoid hassles, I'd recommend USB if you can find the right combination of gozintas and gozoutas for your work. If you want the highest quality audio hardware, you'll probably need to go with Firewire (that's just the way the manufacturers chose to do it), but you may have to fool around to get it to work. Or maybe you'll be lucky. -- If you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo -- I'm really Mike Rivers ) |
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PCMCIA Firewire
Mike Rivers a écrit :
I'd recommend USB if you can find the right combination of gozintas and gozoutas for your work. there is much more choice with USB than Firewire :-) If you want the highest quality audio hardware, I can't afford the highest :-(. I just have to find some good audio interface for making demos for a band, with minimal latency. I know I'll have to test :-) thanks for your anwser jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://valerie.dodin.org http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-eic8MSSfM |
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