[LAU] sourcing TI FireWire PCMCIA cards

[Pieter Palmers]

Christoph Eckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> Small misunderstanding: This thread is about ordering firewire-pcmcia
>> controllers. Not about ordering firewire-audio-devices. ;-)
> 
> argh, you're right. Sorry for the traffic.
> 
>> And looking at what you want to replace, you would need one of the biggest
>> saffires and an extra adat-interface. Which isn't exactly cheap. And would
>> be a hell of setup "just" for playing some synths.
> 
> True. I simply want to get rid of this monster rack mixer. What I basically 
> need is a 28x28 patchpanel with software patchcables and firewire 
> connectivity :) .
> 
> The SAFFIRE PRO 26 I/O looks interesting. If I got you correctly you'd plug in 
> an adat interface as an a/d converter, right? If there an adat device with 16 
> line ins?

Please note that the saffire pro does not have a full-blown matrix 
mixer. So it will not do what you want to do.

The only devices I know that have this functionality are the MOTU 
interfaces, the PreSonus FireStudio and AFAIK the M-Audio Pro-26.

Also note that most of them have only 8 (maybe 10) analog I/O's.

Greets,

Pieter