laptop soundcard

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 8:40 am

Hi,

I'm getting a laptop pc soon, and want something else than the onboard soundcard.

Ideally the card would have:

amplified phones out
ADAT I/O,
mic input.

I primarily get this machine cos I have lots of spare time at work, and want to make some music there. So I'll need an (amplified?) phones output.
Coming home, I can imagine connecting it to Pulsar and running ADAT between desktop and laptop machines.
At home I use an analog mixer as pre-amp, but out on the field there's no mixer. So maybe I'd want a decent mic input on it too.

Since the ideal is hard to find, would be nice if you could make some suggestions

The laptop has PCMCIA, firewire, USB2.

Cheers!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 9:23 am

After a chat, came to the conclusion that echo indigo is an affordable dual phones output. RME is about the only ADAT but it's quite expensive, and the pre-amp'ed mic input will probably have to wait too...

Damn I can't believe there's no more choises for ADAT for example... I'll wait a bit for that.

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Tue Jun 10, 2003 9:42 am

Take a look at M-Box by digiDesign. It has got no ADAt AFAIk but has got good quality mic preamps and I/o overall

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 12:58 am

I think what you're looking for is the 828mkII from http://www.motu.com ?

Kim.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 3:29 am

Look brilliant

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 4:10 am

Yeah, At0mic, go for the MOTU

BTW I wonder how did they do that the optical out socket light is on without a powercord

Post by **hubird** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 7:39 am

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 10:26 am

Thanks for your tips, but I'm looking for something smaller (and cheaper;) I have Luna2496 which i use to record line level inputs. Occasionally I record from mic, so getting the Motu would be overkill.

borg · Post by **borg** » Wed Jun 11, 2003 11:35 am

m audio quattro?

http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/quattro.php

there's also some real cheap adat out thingie, esi gigaport
http://www.stgd.ch/Ego/Gigaport/GigaportDG.htm

but you know the one you need...
mmmmmmmmmmmmmagma, doing modular in your 747.

grotools · Post by **grotools** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 2:15 am

in the cheap area I found this
http://www.waveidea.com/en/products/uasc1/
but of course when you get this, you would also want midi no?

Myself, I think that only RME Multiface+cardbus is still the best deal.

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Fri Jun 13, 2003 8:21 am

Cheers guys

That Gigaport is kewl, that's about what I was looking for for ADAT.
This one has all I need from analog IO: the Tascam US-122. Gonna wait another week or 2 to deceide, haven't got lappy yet anyways...

[edit] New release July '03: http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/IndigoIO/index.php <--looks perfect for my -analog-needs

))))

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