stuhldreher
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Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
Have a laptop, USB only with no slot to insert a firewire card. Is there a device available that will let me connect my firewire interface into the USB port of the Laptop? thanks.....
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 13:04:39
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A very quick Google search turns up hundreds of results.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 13:38:37
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and there basically is no such animal.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 13:51:08
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 14:38:01
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There are adapters out there, but I cannot tell you that they work for audio processing, due to fundamental differences in transfer protocols. There seems to be debate on this out there on the web - I certainly do not know for sure one way or the other, but then again, multiple companies seem to have gone out and made these kinds of adapters.
My Google terms were: firewire usb adapter
The above returned a bunch of results, for whatever the worth,
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 14:55:31
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Thanks for everyone trying to help. I too have seen these adapters for sale but I don't get any warm fuzzies about them. Oh well... I could always take a USB and Firewire cable and splice them together. that should work, right?
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 15:22:36
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Careful: FireWire carries a LOT of power. That's why folks who stick USB plugs into a FW port are always damaging stuff.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 15:29:03
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stuhldreher
Thanks for everyone trying to help. I too have seen these adapters for sale but I don't get any warm fuzzies about them. Oh well... I could always take a USB and Firewire cable and splice them together. that should work, right?
You are joking, right?? :)
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 15:30:59
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Even if something of the sort exists, I certainly wouldn't trust or use it. There's so much potential for throughput, jitter, latency, etc. issues. I would also imagine any such converters rely heavily on applications' ability to perform error-correction, which is not always an option in audio.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 15:37:35
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No I was not joking...I just tried it and my workstation looks like it's smoking a pack a day...  Yes it was my attempt at some sardonic humor... Even a dumb Minnesotan wouldn't have done that... thanks
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 18:28:24
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Some people asked on the forum previously ( here and here). No one reported any success.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 22:05:16
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 22:40:08
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Although an adapter might be able to deliver basically the same data stream over USB, it is pretty doubtful that the driver for your audio interface would be able to handle that data coming in on a different port and protocol. A more promising avenue might be to find a firewire card that would attach to a standard interface like PCMCIA or Expresscard. That would include the translation you would need so that the firewire data is arriving and recognized as a firewire port. It would still not guarantee success. There have been persistent reports of firewire cards using other than Texas Instuments chips working with Sonar. http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=laptop+firewire+card&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=20402348069&ref=pd_sl_8drgrehi0i_b
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 23:11:03
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JUST USE THE USB PORT! Firewire is just about dead anyway.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/13 23:29:11
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I am hoping Presonus will come out with a new version of thier 16.04 mixer board that has USB instead of Firewire. I would have a use for that.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/14 09:21:33
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Yes I have a PCMCIA port on a PC that I've used for several years on stage (with Sonar) and it 100% worked at all times, I loved it. But with The newer PC there is no PCMCIA port....
I have a Steinberg MR816x that is super steady so I'd love to keep this running. But I do believe that Firewire's days are numbered.
The real solution would be a hub like device that is smart enough to deal with both protocols and trasfer data between the protocols in real time.
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Re:Is there such an animal as a firewire to USB converter?
2013/03/14 10:44:08
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The real solution would be a hub like device that is smart enough to deal with both protocols and trasfer data between the protocols in real time. That is not the problem. The problem is having software installed on your computer that will make the incoming data appear to be coming from a virtual firewire port, so that applications designed for firewire input will see it as firewire input. The lack of such an invisible intermediary driver seems to be what makes the firewire-USB adapters unusable in most cases.
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