Hi. If I had a mac book pro there would be. But the lower end mac books don't have any card slots. If it had, I would have done that. That was what I did with my old dell laptop for a few years and it worked great. Cameron. -----Original Message----- From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sean A. Cummins Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 11:21 PM To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884. Cameron, Is there a PCMCIA port or a PC Express port on the Mac? If so, why don't you just get a FireWire card that utilizes the T I chip set? There are several out there, so I'm sure you should be able to do that much more readily then having a modification done to the main system board of the Mac. Sean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cameron" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:30 PM Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884. > Hi. Yes, all the forums I've been reading, including apple forums, have > said that the texas instruments chips work great and the new ones are > garbage for audio work. I want to find out if I can get the older chip > installed. Not sure if that is possible but if it is, I'd be willing to > pay > for it. I really want to get this working but as it is my only machine > right now, I don't want to have to go through and disable a bunch of > things > in the device manager and have to use my headset for speech every time I > want to work in sonar. The old mac book pro is going pretty cheap now and > that does not have this issue from what I've read. However, this machine > is > pretty much brand new and I know I'd take a financial beating selling her > just to buy a second hand refurb mac book pro. > > How frustrating. I really like this machine, besides this point. > > I want to see if the new I macs coming out, or the ones currently for > sale, > also have this issue. My dell may be on the way out and I don't know if I > want to get another desktop pc. If this firewire issue was not well, an > issue, I'd be prepared to go mac all the way but because this is such a > wrench in the works right now, I am really on the fence. > > Cameron. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > On > Behalf Of Slau > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 7:21 PM > To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884. > > Hmm... I don't know. It's an older machine and, well, I have no idea, > really, whether there are issues with particular MacBook FireWire ports. > Of > course, Kevin says there is and I trust he's heard that from some reliable > source. > > Cheers > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cameron" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 8:03 PM > Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884. > > >> Hi. Interesting. Does the powerbook have a better firewire chip though? >> >> That seems to be the issue with this model and all the other lower end >> mac >> books until you get to the pro models. >> >> I did ask the sweetwater tech support guy if issues had been reported >> with >> other mac books and various firewire interfaces and I didn't get a clear >> answer... >> >> Thanks, >> >> Cameron. >> >> >> >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] >> On >> Behalf Of Slau >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 5:54 PM >> To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: [ddots-l] Re: Issue with my mac book and Tascam FW1884. >> >> Cameron, >> >> I just did 32 tracks through one FireWire 400 port while recording an >> orchestra. Actually, I even tested it at 96K and it worked without a >> hitch >> on an older PowerBook G4. You should have absolutely no problem with it >> in >> terms of bandwidth. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Cameron" <cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 6:33 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. 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