Your favorite/recommended firewire interface for a Macbook..

[Faldoe]

I just got a MBpro, 2.7 i7 with 8gb of ram. I need a firewire interface with good preamps - I'll be running my guitar into Live, processing audio and then running some of the outputs to my guitar amps. Low Latency of course, a modest amount of INs/Outs - I won't be doing heavy recording so I don't need a whole lot, a smaller, compact interface with the features above would be ideal instead of a larger interface with more Ins/Outs.

Also, an interface that has Impedance compensation for guitars. Thanks!

I'm looking to buy used and pay no more than $500

[gjm]

Presonus Firestudio Mobile

[Muzik 4 Machines]

any MOTU (pick the one that fit your needs)

[yup yup]

^ +1

[jmouse]

I've recently purchased an RME Fireface 400..(chalk n cheese compared with my original Motu 828 mk1)
Also you could look at the Fireface 800

jm

[supamonsta]

motu ultralite

=

dope.

[lapieuvre]

Fireface UCX

[Faldoe]

Thoughts on the Focusrite Saphire Pro 24?

There is one for sale near me for a fair price.

[rikhyray]

If it is for guitar and all that real time stuff then only RME, the rest - Focusrite in particular won't deliver low latencies that you need.

[Faldoe]

Ya real time guitar stuff. ONLY RME can deliver low enough latency??? It does FireWire and USB, I find that odd that only those interfaces can do low latency yet offer USB compatibility; cause isn't USB slower than FireWire?

[rikhyray]

It always was RME thingy - low latency, however the USB models have (on Mac) the lowest latency of them all. If you ask on internet you will get all those answers " I have ......... card and it is fantastic" it will include rubbish under 100$ toy cards, some truly pro stuff and all between. Recently seen on this very forum someone recommending settings 512 samples as "ideal", possibly ideal but a decade ago. RME works easily @ 32 samples.

[Tarekith]

RME Fireface400 would be my vote, but way out of his price range. Ultralite is a great card too though.

[Faldoe]

Ya the fireface 400 looks awesome but more than I can spend.

Maybe I'll have to save/hope for a score.

[rikhyray]

Ya the fireface 400 looks awesome but more than I can spend.

Maybe I'll have to save/hope for a score.

Essential items like soundcard, mic, headphones are always worth spending bit more, wait, save....
Or get Babyface - have the low latency for guitar parts now and when you have more cash buy some ADAT gadget for more inputs.

[Faldoe]

Someone has a 400 near me, hoping I can get it for a deal