Very small 2-in-2-out interface?

joesapo · Post by **joesapo** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:15 pm

The new interfaces from Echo are lookin pretty fine.

No idea when they are going to ship, but i would bet the AudioFire2 would suit you well.

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:03 am

joesapo wrote:The new interfaces from Echo are lookin pretty fine.

No idea when they are going to ship, but i would bet the AudioFire2 would suit you well.

here was a resonse to that question from the Echo people in regards to the 2 and 4 units

They will be available in approximately 2 weeks.

Thanks,

Echo

EnemyofSilence · Post by **EnemyofSilence** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 3:25 am

I haven't tried any of their firewire interfaces, but I've owned a Gina (original 20 bit), Layla(original 20 bit) and Layla24 - loved them all. Great sound and VERY solid drivers - the Layla24 is still in my MDD G4. It's been there for 4 years from OSX 10.2 thru Tiger, and I think I've only had to update drivers ONCE. When they write em, they write em right!

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 7:54 am

shaneblyth wrote:
joesapo wrote:The new interfaces from Echo are lookin pretty fine.

No idea when they are going to ship, but i would bet the AudioFire2 would suit you well.
here was a resonse to that question from the Echo people in regards to the 2 and 4 units

They will be available in approximately 2 weeks.

Thanks,

Echo

Good news....
In fact I also owned the original Echo Gina, and was very satisfied with it.
So I hope the Audiofire2 will in fact be available in 2 weeks' time.

jngpng · Post by **jngpng** » Sat Jul 22, 2006 11:40 am

That AudioFire 2 looks awesome. I can't understand why noone has done a minature 2x2 interface w/ seperate channels for the headphone out before. Will save me dragging the Fireface to DJ gigs. Plus it has MIDI! With this + Faderfoxes my DJ bag will be nice and light!

robin · Post by **robin** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 6:01 pm

jngpng wrote:That AudioFire 2 looks awesome. I can't understand why noone has done a minature 2x2 interface w/ seperate channels for the headphone out before. Will save me dragging the Fireface to DJ gigs. Plus it has MIDI! With this + Faderfoxes my DJ bag will be nice and light!

Exactly my thoughts. The indigo dj is pretty neat if you have a slot for it but this is even better for having the input and the midi.

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 9:29 pm

The Tascam US-122 has had a replacement announced at Namm that is 100% USB 2.0 compliant.
I'm waiting for them to become available as I will then be able to get a proper PCMCIA FW card for my audio drives only and run a compact USB 2.0 interface off one of the USB ports instead of my Echo Indigo DJ card.

Here is a link to the new TASCAM US-144

http://www.tascam.com/Products/US-144.html.

Digital I/O / Midi / 24bit96khz Operation and fully USB2.0 compliant (ie:480kps data transfer rate).

Phantom Powred from USB 2.0 port also.

Looks like a winner to me.

shaneblyth · Post by **shaneblyth** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:23 pm

Mannnnnnn!!!

that thing is Hugggggggggge!!

FaX-01 wrote:The Tascam US-122 has had a replacement announced at Namm that is 100% USB 2.0 compliant.
I'm waiting for them to become available as I will then be able to get a proper PCMCIA FW card for my audio drives only and run a compact USB 2.0 interface off one of the USB ports instead of my Echo Indigo DJ card.

Here is a link to the new TASCAM US-144

http://www.tascam.com/Products/US-144.html.

Digital I/O / Midi / 24bit96khz Operation and fully USB2.0 compliant (ie:480kps data transfer rate).

Phantom Powred from USB 2.0 port also.

Looks like a winner to me.

FaX-01 · Post by **FaX-01** » Sun Jul 23, 2006 11:32 pm

shaneblyth wrote:Mannnnnnn!!!

that thing is Hugggggggggge!!

FaX-01 wrote:The Tascam US-122 has had a replacement announced at Namm that is 100% USB 2.0 compliant.
I'm waiting for them to become available as I will then be able to get a proper PCMCIA FW card for my audio drives only and run a compact USB 2.0 interface off one of the USB ports instead of my Echo Indigo DJ card.

Here is a link to the new TASCAM US-144

http://www.tascam.com/Products/US-144.html.

Digital I/O / Midi / 24bit96khz Operation and fully USB2.0 compliant (ie:480kps data transfer rate).

Phantom Powred from USB 2.0 port also.

Looks like a winner to me.

No it's just a large .jpg :lol: .
The actual unit is not much bigger than a packet of cigarettes in real life (maybe some 4 cm longer , 4 cm wider and double the thickness of a pack of 25's) .

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:27 am

Looks too big to me too.

sans soleil · Post by **sans soleil** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:20 pm

if you can find an m-audio transit (usb)...they're pretty tiny and work ok. i use mine when i'm travelling and for some live gigs when i only need 2 outs.

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Transit-main.html

...cheap too.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 5:48 am

So the Audiofire seems to be unavailable as of yet...

djro · Post by **djro** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 1:59 pm

Highly recommend the Behringer FAC202 (2 1/4" in/out with firewire)- for about $80. So easy to use, headphone jack with control also.

FORMAT · Post by **FORMAT** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:40 pm

djro wrote:Highly recommend the Behringer FAC202 (2 1/4" in/out with firewire)- for about $80. So easy to use, headphone jack with control also.

Still seems to big... is it that hard to make a box with 2 ins and 2 outs, just slightly smaller than the space needed for those?

dm · Post by dm » Tue Jul 25, 2006 4:12 pm

i'd also recommend the behringer fca202, surprised you think its too big. i think its tiny.