Looking to upgrade my interface.

[blazingstrings]

hey all,
I have been using a M-Audio Mobile Pre USB for a while now and am ready to upgrade to a FW interface with more I/O and better features.

My main interest is the MOTU UltraLite because:
Its Smaller
Offers alot of I/O
Its the right price
Damn, it just looks cool! HA!

My main question is this:
ANyone use it?
Like it?

AM I ok with it as the MOTU Site says you should have a 1394 port with a Texas instruments chipset>
I do: Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller.
But the port says i.Link....... Thats my FW port right, it looks like a 4 pin FW port(I know I would have to use the DC power with it)....

Anything I'm missing?

My Laptop is a Toshiba Satilite with a 1.60ghz Centrino Core Duo Processor with a Partitioned 100GB internal drive and 1gig of Memory.
I'm running Sonar 5 PE and Windows XP Pro.

Any info is great!

-Blaze

 

[Gustin]

i.link is Sony's name for firewire. It's the same thing. Yes you will have to use an external power supply, but that's typical with most laptops.

I've never used the Ultralite, so I can't comment on that. Sorry.

 

[blazingstrings]

Yes as I said I know I will need to use the power supply. 4-pin to 6-pin, I understand all that.

Just looking for opinions on the MOTU Firewire stuff and PC users who like or have them.

I believe I have the TI chipset that they recomend, anyone have and futher info?

Thanks

-Blaze