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Firewire ports
- Thread starter benjo09
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Unfortunately no. 
The ricoh controls the express card slot as well which will mess things up even if you use a TI card.
The ricoh controls the express card slot as well which will mess things up even if you use a TI card.You could always just try with the ports you have right now- it may work perfectly fine. Otherwise, you would have to replace the whole mobo to get a different chipset.
Have you tried anything yet?
My computer doesnt have a TI and it works perfectly fine (using Presonus Firepod).
a TI chipset isnt nessicary, it's just TI make the best one (i think) around
My computer doesnt have a TI and it works perfectly fine (using Presonus Firepod).
a TI chipset isnt nessicary, it's just TI make the best one (i think) around
Ah no havn't tried yet, still saving for the Firepod. Only just bought a new laptop so was pretty annoyed when I started reading about chipsets. Just raedc that if I buy a Firewire Express card with TI and disable my current port it should work. So I'll see. Thanks for letting me know it isn't crucial though
You'll never be able to get the kind of performance you will with a TI chipset on a Ricoh. There is more to it than just getting it to work, buffer size and latency are extremely important. Read this thread http://www.soundonsound.com/forum/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=PCMus&Number=544423&Searchpage=1&Main=541049&Words=ricoh&topic=&Search=true#Post544423.
i_got_a_mohawk, whats your buffer size and latency? Do you get any clicks or pops in your audio?
i_got_a_mohawk, whats your buffer size and latency? Do you get any clicks or pops in your audio?
Dont know about buffer size, would need to restart the computer in another hardware profile to find out. Ive got too much else open right now, but i'll check and post it back later.
Latency, off the top of my head is about 6-7 ms on the in, and 7-8 on the out (~1 ms difference anyways)
And nope, no pops or clicks.
How much recording are you planning on doing?
USB can only handle two channels from what ive heard, so you would be limiting yourself if you planned on doing anything more extravegant with the recordings.
USB can only handle two channels from what ive heard, so you would be limiting yourself if you planned on doing anything more extravegant with the recordings.
Well 2 channels will do for now but I'm looking to record more in the future and planned for my laptop to last 5 years or so. However I've been reading up on USB and found this on the Line6 website about the UX8:
"TonePort UX8 is the only USB audio interface that delivers the powerful tone-shaping mojo of Line 6’s acclaimed GearBox™ software—the same tone engine used by POD® —with recording inputs and outputs for eight simultaneous channels of studio-quality 24-bit/96 kHz audio."
Just contacted MOTU as well to find out about their USB rackmount interface (828mkII) to see if that has as many simultaneous inputs.
"TonePort UX8 is the only USB audio interface that delivers the powerful tone-shaping mojo of Line 6’s acclaimed GearBox™ software—the same tone engine used by POD® —with recording inputs and outputs for eight simultaneous channels of studio-quality 24-bit/96 kHz audio."
Just contacted MOTU as well to find out about their USB rackmount interface (828mkII) to see if that has as many simultaneous inputs.
It might be a case of it using 8 inputs, but you'd still only get two channels popping up on your computer? (ie left and right) ?
If it's USB2 it has the bandwidth required to do more than two channels. As long as it's the only thing on that bus controller it would probably be decent, but I'd be worried about timing issues. I'd also think you would have trouble with running it with eight channels of simultaneous I/O (in case you wanted to use a hardware mixer instead of doing it in-box).
The line 6 may have the hardware to do 8 inputs at 24/96, but it would be very over designed if it has a USB interface because even USB 2.0 cannot stream much more than 4 or so channels reliably at that sample rate. Even a somewhat sketchy firewire chipset can do a much better audio stream than a USB interface.
