[sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Rude 66]

in reality, there's only 1 usb2 multiple in/out box out from Edirol. (=
roland). usb 1.1 is a joke, i have a lexicon omega system here now and it
struggles doing just 2 in/2 out at the same time. i haven't had any
experience with the edirol box yet.

the selection in firewire is much bigger and it seems to become the system
of choice.
pci in itself is not bad, but there are issues you don't have with firewire:
you have to mount the card (open up the pc, etc) some cards have issues with
irq numbers,.. it can take a while to get some cards going. firewire is
literally plug and play after installing drivers. and it'll be compatible
with any laptop if you ever want to take a system with you, and there's much
less hardware still in the pc, although that's not much of an issue anymore
these days with interference and stuff. in short, the quality is the same
but pci is more of a hassle and not portable.

i've had several firewire boxes here, and they perform very well with
minimal latency.. the only reason i'd buy pci these days would be if my pc
didn't have firewire.. but even then i'd invest a few euros in a
firewire-pci card.

r./


----- Original Message -----
From: "JH." <jhaible at debitel.net>
To: "Rude 66" <rude66 at xs4all.nl>; "Peter Grenader"
<peter at buzzclick-music.com>; "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>; "diy"
<synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?


>
> ----- > btw if there's a choise between usb and firewire for digital
audio,
> > definitely go for the last. only 1 or 2 boxes work at all for multiple
> audio
> > i/o with usb.. firewire has a much broader bandwidth and there are
plenty
> of
> > new cards coming out with reasonable pricetags..
>
> AS I have the choice (from the computer side at least) between
> USB2 (much faster than USB1), Firewire and PCI, which should
> I prefer?
>
> (I thought that PCI card with converters in a breakout box would be
> 1st choice - is this right?)
>
> JH.
>
>