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Old 22nd September 2005   #16
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I understand mLan is based on IEEE1394 so does that mean I can just hook it up into my laptops firewire port? How does linking two or more i88x together work (or any other mLan device for that matter)... do they "daisy chain" or something? Are the converters on the yamaha better/worse then the Motu/Focusrite/RME, etc... it looks like the pres are a sure thing at least.... I just can't believe the price!
yeah, mlan uses standard firewire ports. the cool thing is that you can network a computer and/or other mlan devices (01x, motif, apogee, ksp8, etc) with standard firewire cables. all the routing can then be done via the mlan graphic patchbay (with no other physical cables) and recalled as a preset.

the pres/converters are very good, the latency is low (down to 1-2ms) and it has plenty of i/o (balanced analog, spdif, adat, midi, inserts).
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