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

[Peter Grenader]

I've purchased two Maudio products. both had serious s/w flaws in regard to
Macintosh.  The Delta 44 was a disaster  The control panel said I was
recording at 44.1, but it was actually 48. All of Electrolux was done that
way.  When I finally blew a CD of it everything was transposed down.  I had
to transfer it to DAT, then get the new soundcard, THEN put it back as track
by track at 44.1. Major pain plus it caused a generation through the D to As
that could have been avoided.

They later told me that the Mac drivers were beta and they could not support
any problems associated with that.  Why in the f$*k did they release a beta
program with a finished product you ask?  Who in the hell knows. Ridiculous.

But...I gave them one last chance. The Midi interface I got from them (don't
remember which one, I only had it a day), just did not work with a Mac even
though the system 9 smiley face logo was right there on their box!

- P

Peter Forrest wrote:

> One of the reasons I bought it was because of Firewire's supposed
> hot-plugability.
> Is it just the M-Audio 410 that has had this problem? That certainly wasnt
> the implication from M-Audio's email.  If it had been, I'd have tried
> getting my money back!
> Peter
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Zacherl" <sdiy-mz01 at bluemole.com>
> To: "Peter Forrest" <pforrest at vemia.co.uk>
> Cc: "diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:40 PM
> Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?
> 
> 
>> But this seems to be a design flaw with the M410.
>> FireWire is considered being hotplugable and I'm swapping disk drives with
>> my PowerBook being powered on all the time with no problems. Michael.
>> 
>> 
>> Peter Forrest wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Juergen!
>>> I think USB2.  I was pretty alarmed to have M-Audio emailing me to say
>>> that I shouldn't ever hot-plug my Firewire 410, because doing so
>>> sometimes can result in significant damage to the 410 or the host
>>> computer.
>>> As far as I know, USB2 doesn't suffer from this gross flaw.
>>> Peter Forrest
>>> ----- 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 8:09 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.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 
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