 Mbox Or Firewire Interface, confusion on which way to go |
 Mon 1 Mar 2004, 14:46
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I've had an MBOX for close to a year and a half now. Everything was fine until I got a new Powerbook G4 1.25 The MBOX has never been so troublesome. I'm running Panther 10.3.2 (part of the problem I'm sure).From high pitch bursts of white noise to not recording properly, i've just had it up to my eyeballs with the thing. I'm anxious to see the new Edirol FA-101, which seems to be much better than the M-Audio Firewire 410, but am I fine with what I have? It seems that the issue is software related, but I'm tired of waiting on
Pro tools Le 6.2.3. I just want to keep moving and get results. I'm really spinning wheels here. 
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Fri 5 Mar 2004, 22:57
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 10 Joined: 01-Mar 04 From: Marietta - US Member No.: 37,304 |
I actually use an external firewire 400/usb 2.0 BYTECC enclosure with a Maxtor 250gb ultra ATA 7200rpm 8mb cache Hard drive inside (Another thing I forgot to mention). I have it split into 2 partions. One of those partions is strictly Pro tools or where i have all of my sound files going. You know what I mean. I also forgot to mention that i found out that the enclosure is using a Prolific chipset. Is this really that bad? I bought the Bytecc(enclosure) believing that it was using the Oxford 911 chipset, which from what I'm told, is the best chipset to use with Pro Tools. BYTECC's website misleads you into thinking this because there is a firmware update for the oxford 911 under that drive (CHECK THIS OUT AND DON'T BE FOOLED). Now I just purchased a Western Digital 120gb 7200rpm 8mb buffer drive that I should be placing into a Macally combo enclosure. Another thing I found out today is that running PTLE in a user that is not an Administrator is a big huge "NO NO". I've been running PTLE in a seperate user that is not an administrator instead of partitioning (OOPS!!!). Things are starting to make sense now, BUT I still need to make sure everything is going to work properly and I'll be doing so tomorrow at Band rehearsal. I'll be recording the entire band with an sm58 placed in the high corner of the room.
I really really appreciate your replies dixiechicken & lepetitmartien. I'll report back asap... This post has been edited by digikid: Fri 5 Mar 2004, 23:17 |
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digikid Mbox Or Firewire Interface Mon 1 Mar 2004, 14:46
dixiechicken I have MOTU-gear myself together with my modest iM... Thu 4 Mar 2004, 16:59 digikid I really like the configuration you're using D... Thu 4 Mar 2004, 20:01 dixiechicken Perhaps you should check the Digidesigns website, ... Thu 4 Mar 2004, 22:11 lepetitmartien Others are testing the 6.2.3 on the FR forums, onc... Fri 5 Mar 2004, 05:18 lushbudget Howdy,
I have the same setup with the exception th... Mon 8 Mar 2004, 15:28 dixiechicken Generally speaking running usb-audio interfaces th... Mon 8 Mar 2004, 18:41 digikid Thanks Dixiechicken! Maybe I should refund tha... Mon 8 Mar 2004, 20:06 jpschmader I use a Powerbook 1.25 GHz running Panther 10.3.2,... Tue 9 Mar 2004, 00:29 digikid ...interesting...maybe I should reinstall everythi... Tue 9 Mar 2004, 14:08
jpschmader yes, that was a typo. i have 2 GB of RAM. good luc... Tue 9 Mar 2004, 15:07 |
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