Here's my dilemma ...

I'd love to hear what you would choose in this situation.

I'm just starting out in PC recording.

I have a Desktop computer in my basement office.
I also have a wireless laptop.

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

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.

Hi. I recently had the XP Disk Defragmenter analyze my honking 120 GB WD JB drive which lives in a USB 2 enclosure. It said the drive needed defragging even though it's only about a quarter full.

Basically the drive contains huge backup files for my recording and system drives.

Hi! I have just bought a VST USB drive, from smart disk. It is the kit color USB model which is recoomended to perform loppy authorizations of TDM plugins for Pro Tools/Line 6 AMP farm.
The first time I launched the G4 800 quicksilver with the attached USB drive it appeared on the desktop but I was unavle to authorize stuff saying that

I am running a projector from a laptop and the distance is 50 feet from the laptop rack to the ceiling mounted video projector. SVGA and USB are required to do what I require to the projector from the laptop (Toshiba)

I am a Brazilian musician/singer/engineer. I use Pro Tools TDM v 5.1.1, with 2 ADAT bridges light piped to an 02R at 44.1k/24 bits most of the time.

I intend to authorize AMP FARM and Echo farm, as you know, both ask for floppy authorization.
I use a G4 800, with 512MB RAM, 140GB HD with a Mix system inside ( d24 + mix farm + DSP Farm II).

Can someone explain the advantages and disadvantages of USB vs PCI sound cards, such as quality, speed latency, noise or anything else? Thanks in advance.

I have done some searching amongst the microslop web pages in regards to the USB 2.0 device manager exclamation issue...
well, here are the resulting pages I found...

sorry to be blatetly abusing this forum for personal gain, but the wealth of knowledge seems so abundant its like the first thanksgiving for me... any comments on the new breed of usb interfaces? more specifically i was looking into the m-audio omni as my front end and the quattro for midi and usb. their website said it was "professional quality audio". hmmmm.