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

[Paul Maddox]

Peter,

  Perhaps, now that they are owned by AVID (who own Digidesign), things will
improve?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Grenader" <peter at buzzclick-music.com>
To: "Peter Forrest" <pforrest at vemia.co.uk>; "Michael Zacherl"
<sdiy-mz01 at bluemole.com>
Cc: "diy" <synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 2:05 PM
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?


> 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>