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I'm thinking of putting together a mobile recording rig.

I've noticed that apogee is making an interface for their converters
that goes directly to the PCI slot on a laptop.

What are and how significant are the advantages of this approach over
firewire? My system will probably only have eight channels of pre-
amplification and eight channels of conversion; so if the main
advantage of this approach is to enable massive throughput, perhaps
this approach has no real advantages on a scaled down system like the
one I am planning.

thanks in advance for any info on this issue

[Mike Rivers]

On May 4, 4:05 am, wrote:

I've noticed that apogee is making an interface for their converters
that goes directly to the PCI slot on a laptop.

What are and how significant are the advantages of this approach over
firewire?

The advantage? No Firewire! The drivers are written for the card,
which talks directly to the computer's bus, which doesn't have timing
problems that Firewire has. Good as Firewire is (sometimes) it's less
than ideal for audio. That being said, for remote 8-channel recording,
Firewire should work fine on a properly tuned computer and will give
you a degree of portability and probably lower cost than a PC Card
interface.

[Arny Krueger]

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I'm thinking of putting together a mobile recording rig.

I've noticed that apogee is making an interface for their
converters that goes directly to the PCI slot on a laptop.

A laptop with a PCI slot?

Make and model please!

[Mike Rivers]

On May 4, 7:44 am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:

A laptop with a PCI slot?

Oh, you know what he means, sort of. A PCMCIA slot, PC-Card slot, PC-
Express slot, whatever.

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On May 4, 5:48 am, Mike Rivers wrote:
On May 4, 7:44 am, "Arny Krueger" wrote:

A laptop with a PCI slot?

Oh, you know what he means, sort of. A PCMCIA slot, PC-Card slot, PC-
Express slot, whatever.

Sorry about my mixed up terminology. Apogee calls it an Express Card.
It connects to the Apogee converters via "a single PCI-32 cable"

http://www.apogeedigital.com/product...honymobile.php

(sorry, I couldn't figure out how to highlight this address as a link)

This seems like a nice approach, hopefully other converter
manufactures will follow suite.

thanks.