17 Sep
2005
17 Sep
'05
1:37 a.m.
On 9/17/05, Ross Vandegrift <ross(a)jose.lug.udel.edu> wrote:
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:14:39PM -0400, Paul Davis
wrote:
Heh, I wasn't using - just stumbled across it a while back while
looking at interfaces. I drooled a little bit, but then read about
the impossibility of getting it to work with free software.
[snip]
Thanks for the update Paul - sounds like not as interesting an avenue
to persue as I maybe was hoping.
How about an echo layla with the pcmcia card? enough inputs and
supposed to work fine... though i'd check from someone who actually
has one. I was looking at one for a bit but decided buying a new
machine (desktop) was a priority, as i don't really need all those
inputs. http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardBus/Laptop/index.php you
can pick them up on ebay, as they have been discontinued, in favour of
firewire.
they
already had pretty cool looking 8+ analog I/O firewire boxes that
I sadly turned away from.
if you were using ieee1394 for audio "years ago" it was either mLAN or
some utterly proprietary Google didn't turn up anything obvious ::-)
there are currently 3 ways that ieee1394 can be used with audio: