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> Fed Up With Firewire 410, What's a reliable alternative for a Powerbook?
stimpy
posté mer. 21 mars 2007, 19:12
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The 410 has never really worked. Every driver has some kind of issue. Hanging MIDI notes; Loss of audio monitoring, being just the most recent things. It's well spec'd, but doesn't deliver. They've had long enough to get it right..

I need something with solid dependability, low latency and the usual. I'll move away from Cubase and Garageband and get a new DAW.

WHAT'S GOOD?

MBox 2 Pro? At least it'd come with a good DAW..
or
MOTU UltraLite? and maybe get Logic Express or something?..
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cheekypaul
posté ven. 23 mars 2007, 00:06
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Hold On!
I use the 410. It's damn near perfect.
The midi issue... let me guess, you use Pro Tools? Go to the Library/Audio/MIDI Drivers...Take out the ones you're not using. Especially any Digi ones (if you use M-Powered) or take out the M Audio ones (if you use LE).
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MacBook Pro,750gb internal,3gb RAM,Pro Tools,Live,Reason,Reaktor,Transit/410/Audiophile.
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posté ven. 23 mars 2007, 11:19
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My experiences with the FW410...

AUDIO: I use the FW410 with my new MacBook Pro and it works absolutely fine recording into DP and Live, and playing back any standalone sound modules - and it's also pretty good from a latency point of view when recording vox. However, I used to have A LOT of problems running it with my old G4 iBook - these were mostly to do with getting the FW410 software to route things correctly. And may well have been a result of my own stupidity rather than anything to do with the product.

MIDI: I have to say that I've NEVER managed even to make the MIDI side of it work! But since I use a USB mother keyboard these days that doesn't matter to me. And, again, that may be my own stupidity there...

I bought the 410 as a cheap way of recording good quality audio on a laptop, and for that it's great. I don't think I could recommend it for anything more serious than that, though. I certainly don't feel as confident with the 410 as I do with the MOTU PCI set-up I have on my "proper" Mac. And I think if I'd known a few years ago that I was going to be doing an increasingly large proportion of my work on a laptop I would have gone for something a bit more substantial, probably MOTU Traveler.

Terry
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