 NAMM: Presonus FIREPOD Firewire I/O Brings Tubes to FireWire, Audio Hardware |
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QUOTE (macyu @ Feb 2 2004, 09:49) Until I see the new and improved mlan protocol used by the newest of Yamaha gear, I'd have to say that mlan was only good in theory, and ended up very messy in implementation. For your information, the demo booth of Yamaha at NAMM was all mLAN wired. And it worked. The problems with mLAN is that products and softwares are slow to come in but it's going faster now. The Firewire 800 will be the start factor I think. QUOTE The FirePOD does have tubes. In the specs, it says "Eight class A mic preamps." Class-A refers to the tube amplification design. Class A refers to the amplification design (A, B or AB) A is small amplification, high fidelity, low distortion B is high gain, low fidelity, distortion AB is a mixup and sits in the middle. You can make tube design in A, AB or B… As you can make bad tube designs… And there's no tubes in the Firepod…   Now swilder, mLAN is developped on top of FireWire because FW is only a "tubing" it move data, there's nothing "more" to it which is bot enough for the purpose of mLAN. MLAN provides support to efficiently move MIDI, DIgital Audio and Digital Video over FW, with timing under scrutiny as FW is not real time. It secures FW for these applications. And it allows users to get rid of some cables too… Now the slow rise come from many things… Apple used FW only 5 years afters creating it, Yamaha even if present from the begining took 8-9 years to start demoing something working and a couples years more to issue products. 14 years now after the start of FW at Apple other companies are catching up, and I believe it's important, controler chips for FW are less expensive (guess why there's more USB out there than FW? Even if USB is definetly NOT taylored for real time and audio streams.) MLAN is coming from Yamaha but others have joined…
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 news NAMM: Presonus FIREPOD Firewire I/O Brings Tubes to FireWire Fri 30 Jan 2004, 20:13 djfera Bad link??? Fri 30 Jan 2004, 20:13 Nels The link worked fine for me. .....You need Real On... Fri 30 Jan 2004, 20:20 azusa Finally, Presonus wise up and stay away from mLan... Sat 31 Jan 2004, 02:12 Nels If you're saying that you think mLan looks pre... Sat 31 Jan 2004, 03:08 macyu basically, the presonus firestation used mlan, but... Sat 31 Jan 2004, 04:51 Nels So, overall, ...are you pro or con when it comes t... Sat 31 Jan 2004, 04:57 Macca This would be really nice, but for now wishfull th... Mon 2 Feb 2004, 09:30 macyu Nels:
Until I see the new and improved mlan protoc... Mon 2 Feb 2004, 09:49 dmrkh Okay, I need some clarification here.
It was my u... Wed 4 Feb 2004, 05:06 macyu mLan is a protocol that you can run on top of Fire... Wed 4 Feb 2004, 09:53 Nels But, is mLan something I want to stay away from?
... Wed 4 Feb 2004, 17:18 swilder I am by no means an expert on the subject. But I t... Wed 4 Feb 2004, 18:19 macyu ah sorry for the mis-information. I'm no elec... Thu 5 Feb 2004, 06:49 Nels swilder,
Your voice of conviction is admirable, b... Thu 5 Feb 2004, 07:30 dmrkh Actually meant to type "iLink", as in th... Fri 6 Feb 2004, 07:46 macyu ok, the thing about mlan is that it's just a l... Fri 6 Feb 2004, 09:02
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