Mac Mini Intel, no Firewire, so USB interfaces?

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Mac Mini Intel, no Firewire, so USB interfaces?

Post by clarpark » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:28 pm

Since every audio interface I know of uses firewire, how do you connect those to the new mac mini? Are the usb2 to firewire adaptors? Do they work?

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Re: Mac Mini Intel, no Firewire, so USB interfaces?

Post by hoffman2k » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:29 pm

clarpark wrote:Since every audio interface I know of uses firewire, how do you connect those to the new mac mini? Are the usb2 to firewire adaptors? Do they work?
No firewire?

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Post by Nixon » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:02 pm

and besides that, soundcards are usb2 too nowadays.

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Post by inis » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:12 pm

what the hell are you talking about. there is a firewire port right on the back of it.

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Post by mikHATz » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:57 pm

Keep it clean fellas. We're mere humans. We tend to make lots of simtakes.

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Post by dCross » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:03 pm

don't many macs have surprisingly good audio quality? Anyone experimented with the built-in audio on these mac minis?

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Post by eskatonia » Wed Mar 01, 2006 11:10 pm

i doubt it, their not shipping yet.... they were only announced 24 hours ago

but the new mac minis have built in 5.1 sound through spdif outputs

so you might not even NEED a box if you only want 2 outputs + 2 monitoring

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