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I have the oppertunity to replace my old ECHO mona soundcard with the firewire 410 for about 300 CAN and I am seriously thinking about doing it as it is smaller and has more outputs. I would like to hear from folks that are using this card with live5.

Are there any problems with it? and what do you think of it overall? would be two questions.

thanks for your time

the only problem I'm having is that my wireless internet interferes with the firewire port. Other than that everything is peachy! Also, for me the native drivers run better than the asio4all ones, which must mean that they're pretty good. I've heard that a lot of mac-users think it sucks, driver-wise, but on pc everythings okay at my end

PC - confirm here too - all nice and easy. no problems at all and using native drivers too.
i use all the outputs as pairs into my denon dj mixer, hence getting 4 channels on the mixer with eq+effects without needing a midi controller and no need to hassle Ableton with EQ etc.
Then i use the midi controller to do 'other stuffs'

about that wireless problem, i have the exact same problem! have to piss about with the wireless if i reboot and then it works. that's on XP Home though.
cause i got dual boot to XP Pro too and here, the wireless works fine.

Is it a 'HOME' thing, dunno. But I gave up trying to understand and simply deal when I boot into my XP Home.

Hi!

I have the Firewire 410 Interface and have to say it rocks...!

Regards


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atomic wrote:I have the oppertunity to replace my old ECHO mona soundcard with the firewire 410 for about 300 CAN and I am seriously thinking about doing it as it is smaller and has more outputs. I would like to hear from folks that are using this card with live5.

Are there any problems with it? and what do you think of it overall? would be two questions.

thanks for your time

Hi.

I've been using this setup and had no problems. It's been a solid, reasonably priced alternative to get the job done. I thought about going the MOTU route, but for my purposes the Firewire 410 hits the spot.

410's not bad for the price, my only complaint is that it has digital sync issues if i try to bus external effects via s/pdif

no problams with wireless either but im in OSX
(and i'v never had driver issues i'v heard about)

I use that setp up live and the Firewire 410 has great sound quality. I do use a mac and you have to get the correct driver for your OS or you will be in touble.

You may want to consider the Presonus Firebox is you have a Mac because its plug and play... no drivers at all.

thanks for all the posts!

I would have to use this with a pcmcia adpter as my computer has no firewire port as native. Anyone know of a good PCMCIA to Firewire adapter card? Are some better than others ?

Machinate wrote:the only problem I'm having is that my wireless internet interferes with the firewire port.

same here, don't hotplug in anything when running a FW410. the m-audio driver gets fucked, or the other device, or both ... wifi, firewire, hd's anything did it at some time.

If you boot with everything plugged in before booting, its fine ...