Notebook Firewire Card

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2011/01/26 11:38:10 (permalink)

Notebook Firewire Card

I have not been active in recording for awhile.  Now my son and his friend are resurrecting our studio.  I want to upgrade my Sonar to X1, but it doesn’t appear that my workstation will meet the specs.  It’s a Xeon 3.4 Ghz, with 2 gigs memory.  We have an alternative.  My son has a laptop that I think meets the specs, it has an I3 processor.  The problem is that it doesn’t have a firewire port.  Do any of you know if there is firewire card or USB2.0 to firewire adaptor that will work well?  I hate to spring for a new computer right now, especially considering that a lot of my really good gear is outboard equipment.  I just bought a Focusrite Liquid Saffire 56 as my interface.  I don't plan on running Sonar as my main mixing platform at the moment.  I will probably track to my external Hard Disk recorder, dump the project into Sonar for tweaking and then fly it back to the recorder for final mixdown. 
 
I appreciate your help.
Thanks
 Tony
New Genesis Productions
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    Jim Roseberry
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    Re:Notebook Firewire Card 2011/01/26 12:08:57 (permalink)
    Hi Tony,
     
    Forget a USB to Firewire adapter...
     
    Regarding an express-card Firewire controller:
    This may or may not work well...
    The express-card controller is often using the same brand (crap) controller for both onboard Firewire and the express-card slot.  If you're lucky (the laptop has a good express-card controller), a good TI chipset express-card Firewire controller will work fine.  If the express-card controller is crap, adding a TI chipset express-card Firewire controller won't be a solution (as you're not able to circumvent the express-card controller).  The Firewire interface may "work" in the most basic sense... but it won't work/function anywhere close to full potential.
    The only way to be 100% sure is to test...   

    Best Regards,

    Jim Roseberry
    jim@studiocat.com
    www.studiocat.com
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