Firewire Card for Notebook

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2011/01/26 09:59:15 (permalink)

Firewire Card for Notebook

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.
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 Tony
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    SH
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    Re:Firewire Card for Notebook 2011/01/26 10:10:25 (permalink)
    You may get more responses posting this in the "GEAR" section.
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    StarTekh
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    Re:Firewire Card for Notebook 2011/01/26 12:56:59 (permalink)

    hello you need a TI chipset FW card..

    http://www.firewire-1394....p-notebook-cardbus.htm
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    daveny5
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    Re:Firewire Card for Notebook 2011/01/26 13:10:11 (permalink)
    You can get a Firewire notebook adapter. The one made by Belkin uses the Texas Instruments (TI) chipset. I think its about $50-60. Make sure your laptop has a compatible PCMCIA port. 

    Dave
    Computer: Intel i7, ASROCK H170M, 16GB/5TB+, Windows 10 Pro 64-bit, Sonar Platinum, TASCAM US-16x08, Cakewalk UM-3G MIDI I/F
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