 PowerBooks, Firewire & Music - how?, advice on making connections, please |
 Sun 1 Jul 2001, 09:37
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I use a PowerBook G4/400 MHz and would like to create a home studio. I have a good mic with a jack and intend to buy keyboards with a Midi connection. How do I configure things so that I can use the FireWire port instead of the USB? Does anybody know? I know Yamaha makes an interface but I read that it's not compatible with the G4. Can anyone confirm that?
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Mon 2 Jul 2001, 06:18
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I don't know about the Yamaha device, but I would use USB for MIDI (Roland, MIDIman & others make the interfaces) and Firewire for audio. Alternatively, there is a PC card from Digigram called the VXPocket with very high quality audio inputs. I don't know how much you're planning to spend, but if you don't mind being limited to 2 audio channels, I believe both Roland & Tascam make combination MIDI/audio boxes on USB in the $500 - $600 range. OTOH, a MOTU828 ( firewire audio w/18 channels) and a good basic MIDI interface will run you about $900. If you're not buying right now, things are changing rapidly in this area - many new USB and Firewire devices are scheduled to appear by year's end. As the market fills with choices the cost should come down.
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tiloop PowerBooks, Firewire & Music - how? Sun 1 Jul 2001, 09:37
tiloop From a Scot to a Scott, thanks for taking the time... Mon 2 Jul 2001, 09:04 Synthetic I would recommend the MOTU 828 firewire interface.... Tue 3 Jul 2001, 20:48 Torrent If you don't have enough to think about with the o... Tue 3 Jul 2001, 21:55 tiloop I 'm glad that this thing works so well but I didn... Wed 4 Jul 2001, 01:07 Synthetic well if you are not going to spend money... then y... Wed 4 Jul 2001, 15:55 tiloop Hi Synthetic,
It's a shame you can't laugh at your... Wed 4 Jul 2001, 19:09 Torrent At this point in time, I think that the iMic is yo... Thu 5 Jul 2001, 14:10 tag653 here are a few items I have run across looking to ... Wed 11 Jul 2001, 18:00 igor Some people said that Imic works with Virtual Memo... Tue 31 Jul 2001, 16:32
Synthetic Any time you have virtual memory turned on, it use... Wed 1 Aug 2001, 00:57 |
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