Has anyone already tested one of the new M-Audio FireWire interfaces (410 or 1814)? How is the sound, how is the integration with OSX 10.3.x? Consider to buy a firewire audio/midi interface for my powerbook. Don't need a highend solution like the mobile i/o, but don't want a lowend interface either. So it should be something with decent quality for the price. And it should be portable. Cheers Patrick

On Apr 2, 2004, at 3:57 AM, Patrick Schwertfeger wrote: > Has anyone already tested one of the new M-Audio FireWire interfaces > (410 or 1814)? How is the sound, how is the integration with OSX > 10.3.x? > Consider to buy a firewire audio/midi interface for my powerbook. Don't > need a highend solution like the mobile i/o, but don't want a lowend > interface either. So it should be something with decent quality for the > price. And it should be portable. > > Cheers > > Patrick > > I have a 410. Sounds pretty good to be, and has enough I/O for overdubbing and surround mixing. A bit of latency that can be worked around with their control panel... G3 www.utopiaparkwaymusic.com Now both Mac OSX and Windows XP... the only way to fly ;-)

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Schwertfeger <pschwertfeger@d...> wrote: > Has anyone already tested one of the new M-Audio FireWire interfaces > (410 or 1814)? How is the sound, how is the integration with OSX > 10.3.x? > Consider to buy a firewire audio/midi interface for my powerbook. Don't > need a highend solution like the mobile i/o, but don't want a lowend > interface either. So it should be something with decent quality for the > price. And it should be portable. The M-Audio Firewire 410 sounds fine to me. The midi side seems to disappear from time to time. The drivers in general seem a bit iffy with OSX. The Tascam US-122 works much more reliably for me but it is USB and only 2 in and 2 out. Hope this helps Adam Guettel

On 06/04/2004, at 22:16, adart2496 wrote: > The M-Audio Firewire 410 sounds fine to me. The midi side seems to > disappear from time to time. The drivers in general seem a bit iffy > with OSX. The Tascam US-122 works much more reliably for me but it > is USB and only 2 in and 2 out. For the 410 I would also add: 1) The sound quality is ok but not great. 2) Misleading specs - it's really a 2 IN 8 Out card with digital ins and outs.

--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Patrick Schwertfeger <pschwertfeger@d...> wrote: > Has anyone already tested one of the new M-Audio FireWire interfaces > (410 or 1814)? How is the sound, how is the integration with OSX > 10.3.x? > Consider to buy a firewire audio/midi interface for my powerbook. Don't > need a highend solution like the mobile i/o, but don't want a lowend > interface either. So it should be something with decent quality for the > price. And it should be portable. > > Cheers > > Patrick Hi Patrick, recently I was doing a keyboard overdub session and the player had one of these for playback from his laptop,a Sony VAIO. It worked one time,and after a few minutes,we decided to switch to an older interface,because studio time was running. I have not seen it in use with a macintosh yet,but I have seen posts of other of their products,and the drivers seem always to be unreliable for some people. I personally use the Tascam US-122 for my iBook G4,and it has always worked.granted the latency can only go down to 64 samples (1.45mS @ 44100 samples/sec.) which is acceptable to me. I hope this helps, Nick

FW410 in use for tracking in homestudio with Powerbook G4 and Logic Pro. Works nicely! It seems to be little faster when using own power supply instead of using it from fw power. Antti

On Apr 9, 2004, at 2:09 AM, Antti Rintamäki wrote: > FW410 in use for tracking in homestudio with Powerbook G4 and Logic > Pro. Works nicely! > It seems to be little faster when using own power supply instead of > using it from fw power. > Works fine here, though it's been used less as I now have another interface. But for down and dirty recording, and pretty good sound, it's a steal. G3 www.utopiaparkwaymusic.com Now both Mac OSX and Windows XP... the only way to fly ;-)