[ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884.

  • From: "Sean A. Cummins" <seanacummins@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 17:09:32 -0700

Hey Cameron,
There are several articles on the web, including cakewalk, cautioning against using USB external drives for processing audio. USB 2 isn't as robust as FireWire 400 or 800. The specs will say that they can both transfer about the same amount of data per second, but, firewire will sustain the rate much more consistently then USB.
Just a suggestion, not to start another one of those never ending new opinion threads! LOL! 

Sean
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 4:33 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884.
Hi. Well, I have my desktop keyboard hooked up to one of the USB ports and the external drive hooked up to the other one. Would I be able to plug the external into the second firewire port on the tascam or is that going to tax 
the one firewire port too much?

Thanks,

Cameron.





-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
Behalf Of Kevin Reeves
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2008 10:47 PM
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884.

Hey man. Oddly enough, the problem only seems to exist on firewire audio
devices. Here's something to try. If you've got any kind of generic USB
sound card such as a headset or iMic or creative or something like that,
plug that in and make that your default audio device in the windows sound
control panel. That way, the sigmatell card won't be used. Disable
networking, and you should be up and running with no problems. I'll give
this a try tomorrow and let you know how it goes.

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