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Old 24th April 2005   #18
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Woah... guys... awesome advice! Jules, a setup like that hadn't occurred to me and seems a great way to go. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll be buying soon enough. It looks like the Apogee deal is only through May 1st. We'll see though!

As for the Fireface, it's a good idea but we are a little leary of firewire as a primary interface. During our last project we tried a firewire interface and hard drive. Once we had about 16 tracks playing back and trying to do overdubs at the same time and we were getting random clicks in the recorded audio. No amount of tweaking, etc, could help us. As soon as we moved the project to an internal IDE drive the problem was solved. So, the firewire worked for sending and reciving audio at that point and yeah... our limitation probably was the hard drive but it still scares us now. I really want this system to be stable. No glitches anywhere - if possible.

Anyone using the Fireface and pushing it hard?

Peace,
Brad
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