I'm thinking about getting a Pulsar card and putting it in a Magma chassis for my laptop. But I also want to get the Tascam FW-1884 for my I/O + MIDI/transport control. Do you have to use the Pulsar card for your I/O or can you use a firewire interface like the 1884? This is assuming I can't just use the audio portion of it as a converter (audio -> FW-1884's ADAT -> Pulsar). I haven't been able to try one out yet so I have no idea if I can do this or not. What about something like the Echo Audio Indigo PCMCIA card for when I don't feel like bringing my Pulsa+Magma with me? If I'm not running SFP then I can't see this being a problem.
Thanks!
quick I/O question
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marcuspocus
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Both are useable at the same time, you can use ios from 1884, route then to adat and have the asio of pulsar for your soft, still using midi capabilities of 1884 (control + 4 port midi). Send back the mix thru spdif in the 1884 for monitoring.On 2003-08-03 23:54, explody pup wrote:
But I also want to get the Tascam FW-1884 for my I/O + MIDI/transport control. ... Do you have to use the Pulsar card for your I/O or can you use a firewire interface like the 1884?
Or use sunths and effects and route them thru the 1884 and use th asio of 1884 for the soft, or... BOTH! For example, control Logic audio with 1884, use 1884 asio for logic, slave pulsar to 1884, use asio of pulsar in a standalone asio apps (reaktor for example) and slave clock of reaktor to 1884.
Route send+return using of 1884 adat to add realtime effects with pulsar.
Funny, you're talking about 1884, i'm saving up for this one for 3 months. Gonna have it the minute it gets out in september i think!
http://www.tascamcontractor.com/product ... 2_FE-8.jpg
About Indigo, there is no inputs at all on this one btw. No midi either.
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So, basically, I'm going to have plenty of I/O options with this combination.On 2003-08-04 01:21, marcuspocus wrote:
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excellent.I'm pretty excited about the FW-1884. It's what I've been waiting for. Have you heard much about the AD-DA conversion? I've never used a Tascam product so I don't know how they compare. On par with a MOTU 828 I assume.
Thanks for the response!
http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/IndigoIO/index.phpAbout Indigo, there is no inputs at all on this one btw. No midi either.
No MIDI, but they will soon have a 2 In and 2 Out model. Looks pretty cool.
I'm waiting to see user reports of GIGAPort DG USB to ADAT. It's documentation doesn't mention latencies, and it's the first ADAT-only expansion for a laptop.
