Re: Firewire vs USB2 for multichannel in?

vdubreeze@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Jeez, why do you keep saying the information isn't out there? Of
course it won't be on the NEC site or the Western Digital site. Go to
the Digi User forums and you'll have your answer in five minutes.

I have anecdotal answers from unknown users. Someone may have found that a particular combination didn't work for him, so he posts that, and then nobody else ever uses that combination, so we don't know what the problem really is. If a channel in my console doesn't work I want to find out why it doesn't work and, if possible fix it. I don't want to buy a new console.


Digidesign qualified FW cards :http://archive.digidesign.com/compato/
xp/stg/fwcards.cfm

OK, those are cards qualified by Digidesign. They have enough money and enough chutzpah to say "these will work. If you get something else, you're on your own." And because they have such a large market penetration, people take their advice. It's like having your own system integrator, and that's a good thing.

Interesting, though, that the link you posted shows two PCI cards compatible with the Digi 002, a discontinued unit. OK, so I get an 002 off eBay, I know what cards Digidesign recommends for it. Of the two cards listed, one is no longer available, the other, the Siig, bless their hearts, is available, and it's not even all that expensive. But that's a pretty small choice of Firewire cards out of all that are made.

When Mackie was making the HDR24/96, people were bugging them for a list of recommended disk drives and they refused to publish one. They spent a fair amount of time testing drives and selected two suppliers who would give them a long term (5 years is long in the computer industry) commitment to supply that same drive. They didn't have time to test every drive that came on the market to see if it worked. And in the early days of the HDR, some indeed didn't perform well enough to give reliable performance even though the specs you could obtain looked like they were good enough. Eventually drives became more compatible. But when the recorder was new, Mackie's take on it was that if you bought a drive from them, they would guarantee that it would work and if you bought anything else, it was not "recommended" therefore it was up to the user to decide if he wanted to put his magnum opus on it.

I suspect that the problem with incompatibility isn't quite as bad as some of us make it to be. I don't have a lot of external audio interface stuff or Firewire cards, but I find that everything I have is completely compatible and interchangeable. The only thing I've found that doesn't work is any Firewire disk drive through any CardBus adapter in the old Dell laptop computer. Dell eventually told me that the chipset that supports the card slot isn't fast enough for disk transfers and that the only recourse was to replace the motherboard. No thanks. I've run 16 channels of 24-bit 44.1 kHz audio through it with no glitches, however.

What's that TLA (Three Letter Acronym) - FUD? Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt?

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