I'm putting together my first system with simplicity in mind. The M-Audio PCI based Omni/Delta 66 really appealed to me because of the minimal additional equipment required to make basic recordings. That said, the M-Audio Firewire 410 also looks interesting. Aside from the flexibility of using the Firewire 410 with different computers, these products appear similar in many respects.

What’s the consensus USB 2, Firewire, PCI? In order of preferance with new motherboards and sound/interfaces - what's your preferance for the faster desktops? Informal poll.

This may be stupid, but i'm rather new to all this. (a completely original opening line for a first question though you must admit)
Anyway, i need to know if there is a piece of hardware to run lightpipe into from a Radar or Nuendo, and convert it to firewire for my iBook?

does anyone know how long a firewire (IEEE 1394)cable can be before you start losing data? i found a place that sells 10m firewire cables and i could really use one for my studio but I don't know if it's too long...

i'm running a MOTU 24 i/o into a P4 2.4.

Nick

anyone know of a simple interface to get 8 channels of audio via toslink (ADAT) thru firewire or usb? we've been using a Yamaha 01v with an ADAT card for gigs and i'd love to be able to mult the mix to the 8 tracks of ADAT and record on my ibook. fwiw, i'd be using dp (or pt) on a mac.

thanks!

tony

hi there all...my first post.

I found this group while searching for information about getting myself a fancy new capture thingey.

so i went with the Tascam us122 for my laptop audio needs. for now it should be enough. now i am getting conflicting stories on external storage. i use my laptop for video capture and editing as well as location audio recording. should i go with a usb 2.0 drive or firewire? if i get the firewire i will have to get a firewire card because i only have one port which i use for video capture.

An earlier post got me & many others excited about the newly released Tascam FW1884. The Tascam guy posted the entire spec sheet and everybody drooled.
I've checked dealers and they have never heard of it. I've emailed Tascam (three times) and gotten no response--although it is listed on their website.
Does anybody know anything about it? Really.

Greetings,

Here's an interesting one. I've got two HTFS (mac) formatted firewire drives that work fine on a mac. I have an Adaptec firewire card in a PC that works fine with a video camera and a MOTU 828 (used those two just for testing). The drives are completely unrecognized as existing by my Adaptec/PC setup. Not there, not in disk management, etc.