...or you could wait for people to start making Thunderbird-enabled audio interfaces? They'd be plenty fast, though you'd be back to buying apple...
On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:09 PM, David Pickett wrote: > At 17:32 27/03/2012, Augustine Leudar wrote: > > >actually I was considering the RME HDSPe RayDAT which is actually the > >same price as the lightpipe but I would have to use a desktop and I want > >to use a fast laptop with a ssd drive (thus the need for firewire) > > Firewire is on the way out. Few laptops come with these ports now. On the > other hand, RME do two USB A/D/A convertors, which I have used and can > thoroughly recommend. The UFX will do both Firewire and USB and will record > multitrack direct to a USB drive -- even a flash drive. The input levels are > all controlled digitally. Then there's the inestimable advantage of Totalmix > software, which runs on your laptop and allows control of input levels, > compressor/limiter and good EQ. Plus Digicheck software metering. All the > software just mentioned runs on RME's internal DSP, with no load on your > laptop apart from displaying the results. The bottom line is that you dont > need a recent laptop to accompany it. RME has an excellent user forum which > is frequently visited by their designers. > > I am not in anyway associated with RME -- just an extremely satisfied > customer! > > David > > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound > _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
