Mac G4 Tia/external HD and Recording Software

[George Gleason]

Ok I am surrenduring
I am going to start recording my live shows
I plan on using my G4/400 titanium laptop
but it did not come with a burner so I have defaulted to a outboard usb
Harddrive(Thanks hank for helping me get that up) and a external cd burner
none of my programs can find the usb burner
I have osx 10.2.8
but as of yet I have not "bought " a recording program
will Toast or Toast lite have the drivers that will allow me to burn cd's
right now I have Spark ME but it can not find the cd/rw nor can my Itunes
what uis the best solution
I am going in through the USBPRE that I also use to run my MacFoh
1 a apple superdrive installed in my laptop
2roxio toast, or toast light
3 osx panther
4 osx jaguar
6 a dell
thank you
George


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[George Gleason]

"George Gleason" > wrote in message
...
> Ok I am surrenduring
> I am going to start recording my live shows
> I plan on using my G4/400 titanium laptop
> but it did not come with a burner so I have defaulted to a outboard usb
> Harddrive(Thanks hank for helping me get that up) and a external cd burner

The burner is Iomega 52x24x52 usb2.0 running(or rather not running, hence
this inquiry) through a usb1.1 port

> none of my programs can find the usb burner
> I have osx 10.2.8
> but as of yet I have not "bought " a recording program
> will Toast or Toast lite have the drivers that will allow me to burn cd's
> right now I have Spark ME but it can not find the cd/rw nor can my Itunes
> what uis the best solution
> I am going in through the USBPRE that I also use to run my MacFoh
> 1 a apple superdrive installed in my laptop
> 2roxio toast, or toast light
> 3 osx panther
> 4 osx jaguar
> 6 a dell
> thank you
> George
>
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[George Gleason]

>
> First of all, the best recorder for this purpose is a Nomad Jukebox 3.
All
> the perks of using a laptop except it's much smaller, more stable, less
> fragile, and costs a lot less to repair/replace if damaged. The bitch is
> that it can't connect to a Mac. A recordable iPod is just around the
> corner, but in the audio industry that probably means another 6 months at
> least.
>
> Your cd burner problem is that you've bought the wrong interface. I
highly
> doubt it will work at all on USB 1.1, but it will be *very* slow going,
like
> 4x max. Take them back or sell them, they're damn near useless to you.
You
> could get a USB2 card for the laptop, but you don't need the external hard
> drive

first , thanks for the time spent on my question
now
my mac only came with a 10gig internal and 7 of that is used
i was told I could put the 80 gig into my mac though if I open it and it is
the ide 2.5 inch drive

a usb2 card sounds intresting do they sell these at retail ,like compusa?

and it's not worth buying the card just for the burner when you've got
> Firewire already. Just buy any decent 5.25" internal burner ($50) and a
> 5.25" external Firewire case ($50) and assemble it yourself (easy and
free).

can this be bought at a compusa?
I tried to buy a firewire cd burner but there are none available retail in
Syracuse NY that I could find
George



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[LeBaron & Alrich]

George Gleason wrote:

> Ok I am surrenduring
> I am going to start recording my live shows
> I plan on using my G4/400 titanium laptop
> but it did not come with a burner so I have defaulted to a outboard usb
> Harddrive(Thanks hank for helping me get that up)

You're welcome.

> and a external cd burner

Do you have the most current driver for the Iomega? And/or, is there a
driver for USB 1.x and not for USB 2.x? There could be an issue right
there if the newest driver doesn't support the previous protocol.

> none of my programs can find the usb burner

What programs are you trying for this?

> I have osx 10.2.8
> but as of yet I have not "bought " a recording program
> will Toast or Toast lite have the drivers that will allow me to burn cd's

The Toast Lite that came with my Glyph/Plextor burner is not a recording
program. I often track stereo live into the MIO (Firewire interface) and
Waveburner Pro, which results in a file ready for burning right from the
app. This is all under OS9.

> right now I have Spark ME but it can not find the cd/rw nor can my Itunes

Spark ME has to link to a burning program, as it doesn't directly
support CD burning. All I've done with it is experiment with some
editing, save a file, reboot into OS9, and then load that file into WB
Pro and burn from there.

Spark ME has an option to link to Toast/Jam, so maybe under OSX that'd
be a sensible option.

> what uis the best solution
> I am going in through the USBPRE that I also use to run my MacFoh
> 1 a apple superdrive installed in my laptop

The regular Combo drive might be a better option unless you also want to
burn DVD's from iMovie or use the internal drive for DVD backup storage.
The SuperDrive isn't any faster for audio.

> 2roxio toast, or toast light
> 3 osx panther

I'm the kind of person who waits until the little wrecks are cleared
from the highway before taking a particular route.

> 4 osx jaguar

I've been messing with 10.2.1 and it works okay. The v. you have ought
to work. Have you looked at MacInTouch to see if there are any known
issues with USB and 10.2.8?

> 6 a dell

Can't help you there, as I'm totally ignorant.

--
ha

[Don Cooper]

George Gleason wrote:

> can this be bought at a compusa?
> I tried to buy a firewire cd burner but there are none available retail in
> Syracuse NY that I could find


Hi George,

Have you tried ATS on Tarbell near Carrier Circle?


Don

[George Gleason]

"Don Cooper" > wrote in message
...
>
>
> George Gleason wrote:
>
> > can this be bought at a compusa?
> > I tried to buy a firewire cd burner but there are none available retail
in
> > Syracuse NY that I could find
>
>
> Hi George,
>
> Have you tried ATS on Tarbell near Carrier Circle?
>
I have went there 3 times trying to find them, failed
but as it is I found the hotburn software that came with the iomega will
connect me if I reboot into os9.2
kinda a pain but will work for now
Peace
george


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[LeBaron & Alrich]

George Gleason wrote:

> "Don Cooper" wrote...

> > George Gleason wrote:

> > > can this be bought at a compusa?
> > > I tried to buy a firewire cd burner but there are none available retail
> > > in Syracuse NY that I could find

> > Hi George,

> > Have you tried ATS on Tarbell near Carrier Circle?

> I have went there 3 times trying to find them, failed
> but as it is I found the hotburn software that came with the iomega will
> connect me if I reboot into os9.2
> kinda a pain but will work for now

This guy is worth his weight in megabytes:

Dan Metivier
PC Connection / Mac Connection
v 800-800-0014 x71442
f 603-683-0880


Knowlegeable service, killer support, fair pricing. he's my main man for
things Mac nowdays, since he went there from Metric Halo.

--
ha

[George Gleason]

> This guy is worth his weight in megabytes:
>
> Dan Metivier
> PC Connection / Mac Connection
> v 800-800-0014 x71442
> f 603-683-0880
>
>
> Knowlegeable service, killer support, fair pricing. he's my main man for
> things Mac nowdays, since he went there from Metric Halo.
>

Thanks I think you gave me that before but I forgot to look in my files
I got the answer frrom Roxio that toast 6.0 will solve all my recording on
mac issues and make me coffee before I wake up
Peace
george


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