Need advice for PC card MIDI IO and audio IO for Mac

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat May 17, 2003 6:51 am

I've just got a new G4 powerbook, and I need to get MIDI and Audio out of it. PC card ain't my thing so if anyone has experience, please don't hesitate to share.

I'm guess USB is OK for MIDI, and the PC card slot can be used for the audio IO.. if there's something that combines both, super cool.

marcuspocus · Post by **marcuspocus** » Sat May 17, 2003 7:30 am

Check Edirol stuff, made by Roland, and they are leader in USB audio, unless you wanna Noah?

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat May 17, 2003 8:42 am

I'd recommed you the Digidesign's MBox for audio and a midiman midi interface to accompany this great stuff (the MBox). AFAIk they work very well

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat May 17, 2003 12:54 pm

From what I see, both Mbox and Midiman MIDI iterface is USB... Connecting these 2 at the same time seems to tell me that I'm going to face USB transfer problems, is that not the case?

by the way, OSX does rule, now that I use it. LOL, pretty cool stuff.

borg · Post by **borg** » Sat May 17, 2003 2:01 pm

i'd say magma or one of the RME ones (digiface or multiface with pcmcia).

i just got myself a second hand magma, but am still busy finishing older projects, so i haven't gotten around testing the laptop with SFP, but i'm sure it will rock really hard

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat May 17, 2003 3:51 pm

On 2003-05-17 13:54, kensuguro wrote:
Connecting these 2 at the same time seems to tell me that I'm going to face USB transfer problems, is that not the case?

by the way, OSX does rule, now that I use it. LOL, pretty cool stuff.

OS X is nice looking but it's lot more difficult to have order in it that in classic MacOS (I mean after uninstalling an app some files remain still in the system

)

Abot the USB... Hmmm... yes, I forgot about that fact

So yes, the edirol range looks pretty impressive... But, hey, isn't your Mac equipped with 2 USB sockets (the keyboard isn't USB as it is attached permanently - it's a laptop)? If yes, then forget aboout troubles, they are independent AFAIK!

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat May 17, 2003 6:33 pm

I really have no details about this, but it might well be that the MacOS doesn't poll the USB thing constantly as the (at least earlier) Windows versions do. Seems I have to improve my low level Mac literature...

cheers, Tom

samplaire · Post by **samplaire** » Sat May 24, 2003 3:30 pm

Hi Kensuguro,

I've just found something for you: http://www.osxaudio.com/index.php?story ... 8f533c26a9

Digi 002 Rack

Midi/multi i/o / software

firewire

kensuguro · Post by **kensuguro** » Sat May 24, 2003 10:39 pm

I got a device called Audiophile USB from a Japanese company called M-Audio. I doubt it's available overseas. Anyway, the quality aside, it does both MIDI and audio (just 1 stereo) so it's working fine for me.

thanx for all your input tho. I'll definitely need to get a more serious audio IO. The Mbox from DIGI looked very nice.

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Micha · Post by **Micha** » Mon May 26, 2003 4:08 am

RME Multiface: Midi, Multi I/O, ADAT, SPDIF. Good mixer SW. PCMCIA. No problems here (~18 month in use).