On 9/17/05, Ross Vandegrift <ross@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:14:39PM -0400, Paul Davis wrote: > > > 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 > > 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. > > > > > Google didn't turn up anything obvious ::-) > > > > there are currently 3 ways that ieee1394 can be used with audio: > [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.
