RMS Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 I'm looking to set up a bedroom studio to produce trance, techno, and more experimental music as well as build a live rig. I have a celeron 500 mhz to start with, but that is largely irrelevent as I plan to build a new pc from scratch. SO far I have a supernova 2 pro-x. Logic is my planned sequencer and I'll prob hold out and get vers 5 in a few months. For live use I plan on either buying an mpc or seeing what the yamaha rs7000 can offer. For home use I'd liek to try and mix everything digitally. There is an option to fit my synth with adat and spdif so I'd like to get an interface that can accomodate that. I'd also like the option of multiple adat or spdif inputs for future gear. Of course balanced analog i/o's are also necessary. I've looked into the motu 828 and 2408. The 828 has firewire. The 2408 uses a pc card to inerface with. Are the conenction speeds comporable? Each has the i/o that im looking for, but I don't think either are 96 khz. SHould I worry about that or are most people doing what I'm attempting fine with lower refresh rates? Any similar products I should look into? Midi I'm not too concerned about yet, but I would like ot control the software mixer via midi using a kenton/doepher/peavey type slider box and possibly an additional rotary box for tweaking the eqs/etc. Any control interface advice? Thx in advance. Randy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 22, 2001 Share Posted June 22, 2001 I've looked into the motu 828 and 2408. The 828 has firewire. The 2408 uses a pc card to inerface with. Are the conenction speeds comporable? Each has the i/o that im looking for, but I don't think either are 96 khz. SHould I worry about that or are most people doing what I'm attempting fine with lower refresh rates? Any similar products I should look into? The 2408 is potentially going to have a lot more bandwidth to play with. However, either should be just fine. (According to MOTU, the 828 only uses about 1/4 of the available bandwidth of a firewire bus.) Be careful with the 828 though, as it doesn't like Firewire components that use NEC chips. As far as 96k goes... ah, is that thread still going on? I wouldn't hang myself on 96k. It would, of course, be nice to have. However, if you find an interface that does everything else you want, I wouldn't dump it just because it won't do 96k. -Danny ------------------ Of all the things that I have lost, I miss my mind the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hippie Posted June 23, 2001 Share Posted June 23, 2001 The 2408 mkII is a more developed interface, the 828 is still on ver. 1. That fact alone is worth *at least* considering. Also, Firewire audio interfaces are still a little too "new" for me. I'd try to go with a more proven hardware/software platform. -Hippie In two days, it won't matter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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