boze

Funny Project For Me At Work... I Need To Select An Interface.

So I work for a non-profit that's got an old archive of about a thousand old cassette tapes of various conversations and interviews. We're digitizing the whole wack of them to give to the women's studies library of a big university.

What I'm looking for are recommendations for an interface. I'm a home recording artist with plenty of experience using Logic Express and plenty of other hw and sw products. But it's a novelty thing: I'm pretty much going to be buying like 8 cassette decks on ebay or craigslist so that the job goes as quickly as possible.

A friend of mine recommended the M-Audio Delta 1010LT. He's used it for close mic'ing drums and has no trouble tracking 7 or 8 channels at once.

_But I also need to recommend a platform. I think the university might buy us a work station to do the conversion on. New dualie G5 towers aren't compatible with the Delta. And since I got my Saffire for home recording (which isn't a good fit from an i/o standpoint) I haven't paid much attention to what kinds of cards are out there.

Budget needs to be sensible.. under $300 would be fine.

One last oddity: there's an old 1.25ghz G4 tower here in the office which is shown no love at all. I'm considering turning this into the cassette-ripping workstation and just popping a huge FW hard drive onto it to store all the aifs. That would let me run Logic Express and avoid any potential IRQ hassles that might make folks raise eyebrows if I don't get true plug-and-play from whatever windows card I end up with.

Many thanks for any suggestions of specific sound cards with 8 or more RCA inputs!!

-boze

Tracktion <- New $80 Daw For Osx

http://www.rawmaterialsoftware.com/products/tracktion/

looks pretty cool for folks on a budget. not like there's really anybody running osx who's like _really on a budget, but still- you know what i'm saying...

G4 Ibooks At Last!!!!!!

http://www.apple.com/ibook/

all G4s now!!

$1099 - 800mhz
$1299 - 933mhz
$1499 - 1ghz

all with ddr, bluetooth and airport extreme ready, 32m ATI vidicard, fw400, 2 usb2...

i don't see what's not to like about this. i'd been down on the mac laptop offerings of late, but this and the 15" pbook facelift goes a long way toward setting things right. i've already recommended this comp to three different ppl who were asking me for advice about a good wireless laptop value.

Motu Offers Pci424 (g5 Compatible) For $295

did y'all see the new upgrade offer from MOTU?

a boon to G5 owners but also to the many of us who suffer from the crappy osx drivers with our pci324 cards.

i don't really like that price just to fix something that is their responsibility anyway, but at least there's an option after all this time.

New 15" Powerbook Finally!

you see they finally came out with an aluminum 15" pbook today? looks like the screen rez actually went down (wtf?), and no L3 cache like folks were hoping for- but nice boosts in other areas and still $1999 to start. before today you could only get a 867mhz with no ddr for $2k.

really, i guess it's more like the 15" pbook is now at least where it should have been ever since the alBooks came out. better late than never though...

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$1,999.00

15.2-inch TFT Display
1280x854 resolution
1GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
256MB DDR333 SDRAM
60GB Ultra ATA/100
ATI Mobility Radeon
9600 (64MB DDR)
Full size keyboard
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 400 & 800
AirPort Extreme Ready
DVI & S-Video out

or

$2,599.00

15.2-inch TFT Display
1280x854 resolution
1.25GHz PowerPC G4
512K L2 cache
512MB DDR333 SDRAM
80GB Ultra ATA/100
ATI Mobility Radeon
9600 (64MB DDR)
Backlit keyboard
Gigabit Ethernet
FireWire 400 & 800
AirPort Extreme built-in
DVI & S-Video out