scottieboy
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This might be the answer I was looking for.
Emu has just introduced a new line of USB 2.0 Audio/Midi Interfaces. check out the video. If someone didnt want to spend more than $200, I would think this is a good choice......your thoughts? http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2888#
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ohhey
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 02, 06 11:47 AM
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Emu has just introduced a new line of USB 2.0 Audio/Midi Interfaces. check out the video. If someone didnt want to spend more than $200, I would think this is a good choice......your thoughts?
http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=2888#
USB 2.0 will eat up a bunch of CPU power, I would stick to firewire. Firewire cards and interfaces can communicate without help from your computer because firewire is a true peer to peer network technology. For example you can transfer video from one camcorder to another without a computer in the middle. With USB (both 1 and 2) your computer has to manage all that traffic all the time. USB is nice if it's all you have and you have CPU to spare, I'm sure Emu is counting on the market of folks who don't have a firewire interface on their machine and are not confident enough working with computers to add one. For just laying down a few tracks computers are so powerful now that most folks can stand to lose some CPU power, but if you have a choice firewire is the way to go.
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scottieboy
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 02, 06 1:37 PM
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I see what you mean. I think I may just bite the bullet and go with the Emu 1616 cardbus
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OffAnAirplane
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 02, 06 2:00 PM
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I see what you mean. I think I may just bite the bullet and go with the Emu 1616 cardbus
I don't think you will be disappointed with the EMU 1616.
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scottieboy
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 8:14 AM
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True. I don't want to buy something thats not going to work either. Since I'm stuck with the 1.5 ghz lappy, if I just spend the $400-500 for this unit, I'll get something that will work, and hopefully last a long time. The only other thing I would need to do was double my ram and make it a gig.
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 11:49 AM
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True. I don't want to buy something thats not going to work either. Since I'm stuck with the 1.5 ghz lappy, if I just spend the $400-500 for this unit, I'll get something that will work, and hopefully last a long time.
The only other thing I would need to do was double my ram and make it a gig.
The more ram the better.
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ohhey
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 12:06 AM
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True. I don't want to buy something thats not going to work either. Since I'm stuck with the 1.5 ghz lappy, if I just spend the $400-500 for this unit, I'll get something that will work, and hopefully last a long time.
The only other thing I would need to do was double my ram and make it a gig.
For recording audio tracks 512 is fine, what most laptops need is a faster drive. They put $#@%! 4200 or 5400rpm drives in those things. Three are 7200rpm 2.5" drives out now and are fairy cheap. I put one in my old ThinkPad A31 and it made everything faster. Seems Windows "plays" with the hard drive a lot more then I thought. Boot up is about half the time it took with my 4200rpm drive.
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scottieboy
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 1:39 PM
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For recording audio tracks 512 is fine, what most laptops need is a faster drive. They put $#@%! 4200 or 5400rpm drives in those things. Three are 7200rpm 2.5" drives out now and are fairy cheap. I put one in my old ThinkPad A31 and it made everything faster. Seems Windows "plays" with the hard drive a lot more then I thought. Boot up is about half the time it took with my 4200rpm drive.
Are you talking about an external or internal?
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 1:42 PM
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For recording audio tracks 512 is fine, what most laptops need is a faster drive. They put $#@%! 4200 or 5400rpm drives in those things. Three are 7200rpm 2.5" drives out now and are fairy cheap. I put one in my old ThinkPad A31 and it made everything faster. Seems Windows "plays" with the hard drive a lot more then I thought. Boot up is about half the time it took with my 4200rpm drive.
Are you talking about an external or internal?
Internal.
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scottieboy
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 1:45 PM
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that would probably be a costly operation..... 
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ohhey
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RE: This might be the answer I was looking for.
May 03, 06 1:57 PM
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For recording audio tracks 512 is fine, what most laptops need is a faster drive. They put $#@%! 4200 or 5400rpm drives in those things. Three are 7200rpm 2.5" drives out now and are fairy cheap. I put one in my old ThinkPad A31 and it made everything faster. Seems Windows "plays" with the hard drive a lot more then I thought. Boot up is about half the time it took with my 4200rpm drive.
Are you talking about an external or internal?
Internal. You can use Ghost to transfer the OS partition over to the new drive. On most laptops it's easy to replace, download the manual and check to see how easy it is. If you need to do the Ghost on a desktop you can get IDE adapters for the 2.5" drives for about $6 each.
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