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 Fri 2 Aug 2002, 13:00
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 Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 28-Jul 02 From: Zonhoven - BE Member No.: 6,307  |
Is it possible to use a pci card on a Tibook ?!
I'm thinking of buying the new Roland/emagic studio pro package but i also wanna use it on my laptop. Please tell me this is possible 
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 13:01
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 28-Jul 02 From: Zonhoven - BE Member No.: 6,307 |
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 13:17
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 28-Jul 02 From: Zonhoven - BE Member No.: 6,307 |
It is possible !!!
This is amazing. There is also a drive bay so you can add two internal IDE/ATA or SCSI disk drives to the 2 slot enclosure. www.magma.com |
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 Fri 2 Aug 2002, 15:35
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SuperHero  Group: Banned Posts: 1,879 Joined: 24-Feb 02 Member No.: 3,562 |
Hey, electradise, are you some kind of a schyzophren? ;-)
Happy to see that you found that it's possible to use more pci cards, even on a powerbook which as no such port :-). Magma has many solutions, from 1 to 13 pci cards (wow, impressive!). I've used one, 1 year ago with a tower G4 (ie. pci) with a Pro-tools Mix24 with av-option, scsi, no problems so far. But there are controverses... It seems the pcmcia (cardbus) on most powerbooks could be VERY usefull. Have a look also at the RME interfaces (Hammefall family) at http://www.rme-audio.de/english/index.htm. Impressive, at least... Bye. |
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 15:38
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 Moderator Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 10-Jul 02 From: Weimar - DE Member No.: 5,666 |
It´ll cost you an arm and a leg though. Haven´t seen Magmas used for anything but ProTools setups (which at least dwarf the Magma´s pricing scheme). $1000 for the smallest, 1 slot expansion chassis to be able to use a $1500 solution? You could just buy a Hammerfall Multiface + Cardbus for your laptop.
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 17:51
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 28-Jul 02 From: Zonhoven - BE Member No.: 6,307 |
yeah, it's way to expensive.
The RME is def. the best option. though it would be nice we could use the new roland controller on a Tibook. Don't you think ?! p.s: sorry, i'm a musician, not a computer tech. That's why i bought a mac after all. |
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 19:30
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 Maniac Member Group: Members Posts: 821 Joined: 25-Jun 01 From: Springfield - US Member No.: 1,082 |
yeah... i looked into the magma setup as well to use with my Digi001 but just couldn't justify the cost... I feel they are way over priced for their function. I am sure it probably didn't even cost more than a $300 to build those units.
I was considering a card that I had seen on a site that plugs directly into the card slot on the tibook and offers 2 24 bit inputs and 2 24 bit outputs and I think they were balanced but can't remember for sure. Anyhow, it was a bit pricey too at $500 but seemed like it was more reasonable than spending over $1000 for magma. curious... what IS RME? I seen this reference in a couple of other posts but have no clue what that relates to... heck it may be the same thing I was looking at 
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Fri 2 Aug 2002, 19:36
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 28-Jul 02 From: Zonhoven - BE Member No.: 6,307 |
http://www.rme-audio.com/
Check it out. I believe they also make the interfaces for nuendo. There's also a nice test where they compare their hardware with lots of different laptops, notebooks, whatever..... I'v used it on a P41800DDR & that was really amazing. |
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