PCI Soundcards

[Paul Jay]

I've got an old Terratec EWS 88MT PCI soundcard sitting around doing very little as I use notebooks more and more. It's still a great card (better than the M-Audio FW410 I currently use). I wonder if anybody knows if there exists such a thing as a converter type box through which you could use such a PCI card as a USB 2 or Firewire card instead. Then of course we could all use such cards with our notebooks
If it doesn't exist then maybe someone knows how to make something like that?

[amo]

there are some PCMCIA powered boxes that allow you to use PCI cards with a laptop. I don't know if it works with soundcards, and with yours in particular...

http://www.mobl.com/expansion/products/ ... index.html

It's quite expensive, but great. I think it works with UAD-1 cards. To be verified.

Cheers,
amo

[Paul Jay]

Thanks for the tip, just checked it out - but the price!!!
It can't be that difficult to make something much cheaper, and it would sell as more and more of us move over to notebooks and want to take our old souncards with us.
Oh well just an idea....

[djsynchro]

I've got an old Terratec EWS 88MT PCI soundcard sitting around doing very little as I use notebooks more and more. It's still a great card (better than the M-Audio FW410 I currently use). I wonder if anybody knows if there exists such a thing as a converter type box through which you could use such a PCI card as a USB 2 or Firewire card instead. Then of course we could all use such cards with our notebooks
If it doesn't exist then maybe someone knows how to make something like that?

Hey Paul Jeroen here (Mazzo) what do you need 10 outputs for??? Or do you have it hooked up to an analogue mixer? I was thinking of buying the FW410 wanna sell it to me? (And what's not good about it?)

[by-pass]

I've got an old Terratec EWS 88MT PCI soundcard sitting around doing very little as I use notebooks more and more. It's still a great card (better than the M-Audio FW410 I currently use). I wonder if anybody knows if there exists such a thing as a converter type box through which you could use such a PCI card as a USB 2 or Firewire card instead. Then of course we could all use such cards with our notebooks
If it doesn't exist then maybe someone knows how to make something like that?

Hi Paul Jay,
I have buy the last year a RME multiface. For me is the best portable soundcard on pci-pcmcia slot.
I never encounter problem with this card , for live act or @ home.
check it, test it.......
When you go to this card U never come back

the link: http://www.rme-audio.com/english/hdsp/multifa.htm

the price is around 1000 euros with pcmcia or pci card

enjoy


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