Re: Pro Tools Simultaneous Recording

adam79 wrote:

I only have one firewire port on my MacBook Pro. If I was to buy the 003 Rack+, I would have to buy a port splitter so I could have two ports for the Rack and the hard drive I record to. This would be bad because it would be lowering the performance of the firewire connection. Is there anyway around this, or am I just stuck with what I got?

Adam, You can use the two firewire ports on your 003 Rack+ to connect the computer and external hard drive. Get a FW800 to FW400 adapter cable, plug the FW800 end into your MacBook Pro, the 400 end into one of the 003 400 ports, and a FW400 to FW400 cable from the the other 003 port to your external hard drive port. That's the same set up I use on location and it works fine.

FW400 speed is more than adequate for this set up. You'll get the maximum number of channels available via the 003 (8 preamp inputs, 2 via SPDIF and 8 in via the ADAT connector at 48Khz sample rate, total 18 tracks) with no trouble at all.

Mike
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