Check out the new Digi-002...

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totally...

I have been asking about "when will a Digi 002 be announced?" for months.

owned, I know what i am getting for christmas.
 
only thing I am wondering about is the firewire connection...since there is no PCI card or anything.

it is a cool idea i guess...as long as the A/D converters they put in the box are good...which, I imagine at that price they should be great.

Just send the stuff into your computer digital. Very neat...very neat indeed.
 
Indeed interesting. Hope to get my hands on one soon for testing!
 
I hear (on the DUC) that its gonna come bundled with a whole pant load of plugins
 
Looks nice...but i bet u all the money in the world the A/D D/A is the same
 
correct me if i am wrong...

but firewire only?

i keep hearing how its still a luxury to be included on mobos, and most of my nerdy friends won;t even go USB 2.0 for burners yet.

what is the bandwith of firewire anyways? i know usb is 480 megs/sec which seems enough for lots of tracks. is it a latency thing? or something else about the medium other then bandwith that makes it attractive?

looks damn cool though...

SirRiff
 
USB 2.0/1394 connections are not 480 MB/s. They're 480 megabits per second. That's not the same. still plenty fast, tho'
 
refresh my mem....

thats the ol 1024 bytes in a kbyte and so on and so on?

wait i found this....
http://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/0,,sid9_gci212542,00.html

megabit

In data communications, a megabit is a million binary pulses, or 1,000,000 (that is, 106) pulses (or "bits"). It's commonly used for measuring the amount of data that is transferred in a second between two telecommunication points. For example, a U.S. phone company T-carrier system line is said to sustain a data rate of 1.544 megabits per second. Megabits per second is usually shortened to Mbps.

Some sources define a megabit to mean 1,048,576 (that is, 220) bits. Although the bit is a unit of the binary number system, bits in data communications are discrete signal pulses and have historically been counted using the decimal number system. For example, 28.8 kilobits per second (Kbps) is 28,800 bits per second. Because of computer architecture and memory address boundaries, bytes are always some multiple or exponent of two. See kilobyte, etc.
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and

megabyte

Also see Kilo, mega, giga, tera, peta, and all that.

1) As a measure of computer processor storage and real and virtual memory, a megabyte (abbreviated MB) is 2 to the 20th power bytes, or 1,048,576 bytes in decimal notation.

2) According to the IBM Dictionary of Computing, when used to describe disk storage capacity and transmission rates, a megabyte is 1,000,000 bytes in decimal notation.

According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes.


According to Eric S. Raymond in The New Hacker's Dictionary, a megabyte is always 1,048,576 bytes on the argument that bytes should naturally be computed in powers of two.
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so firewire and usb2 have the same bandwith?

SirRiff
 
Teacher said:
Looks nice...but i bet u all the money in the world the A/D D/A is the same
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it goes to 24/94kHz (unlike digi001 24/48kHz max) so i bet ...
 
Teacher said:
Looks nice...but i bet u all the money in the world the A/D D/A is the same
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Nope, it's 24/96, unlike the Digi001 and MBox which are both 24/48
 
Re: refresh my mem....

"so firewire and usb2 have the same bandwith?"

Similar. to the same order. AFAIK Firewire is 400, USB 2.0 is 480. or something like that.

No, its actually not 1024 = 1 KB analogy (That would mean a transfer rate of what... 3.5 MB/s?) , but more like the communication megabit vs. the computer megabyte. The orders are different. Not sure what the effective rate works out to be, but 350 MB/s sounds about right.

"According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes".

Wow! I didn't know that the same term could be used to accurately define two disparate numbers. Probably why Microsoft can't often tell their head from their nether regions.

Sang
 
1 byte = 8 bits, so the speed of Firewire is 50 megabytes/s and USB2 60 megabytes/s.
 
so they increased the sampling rate wow...i bet u any amount of money it doesn't sound MUCH better(justifyin the increased space) at the higher samplin rate and 48/44.1 sound the same
 
Teacher said:
so they increased the sampling rate wow...i bet u any amount of money it doesn't sound MUCH better(justifyin the increased space) at the higher samplin rate and 48/44.1 sound the same
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I don't get it. Wasn't your issue with this unit that you thought it had converters that only went to 48KHz sample rate? So now that you know the converters go to 96KHz, what's the reason for your continued prejudice against this product, without having even heard it?
 
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Sangram said:
"According to the Microsoft Press Computer Dictionary, a megabyte means either 1,000,000 bytes or 1,048,576 bytes".

Wow! I didn't know that the same term could be used to accurately define two disparate numbers. Probably why Microsoft can't often tell their head from their nether regions.

Sang
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It's not a Microsoft thing, it's a common pc storage architecture fact. People casually throw around the term 'megabyte' to mean 1M bytes, but the actual number is 1,048,576. Techically, one million bytes (as implied by the term) should mean exactly 1M. But due to the way hard drives are designed to interact with the o/s, the actual number is slightly different.


Hey that Digi002 would be great, if ProTools LE didn't blue screen every five minutes on every pc I've tried it on.
 
I don't get it. Wasn't your issue with this unit that you thought it had converters that only went to 48KHz sample rate? So now that you know the converters go to 96KHz, what's the reason for your continued prejudice against this product, without having even heard it?
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What, you mean you've never seen one of Teacher's posts on Digidesign before? He's never had a nice word to say about the company or any of their products, don't expect him to start now.

Hey that Digi002 would be great, if ProTools LE didn't blue screen every five minutes on every pc I've tried it on.
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I've never had Pro Tools LE "blue screen." EVER. I've had it crash, but even with very early development versions, never a blue screen of death. I've run it on 6 different PCs too. And I don't even think there is a blue screen of death on Windows XP. If there is I haven't seen it...
 
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What, you mean you've never seen one of Teacher's posts on Digidesign before? He's never had a nice word to say about the company or any of their products, don't expect him to start now.
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Oh, I've seen his posts, I just have a hard time figuring out where, specifically, the problem is if it ain't the converters. His other posts, and these included, are always about the converters being crappy. Then it's the summing, but of course that's not LE-specific as that's a problem with ANY CPU-based recording system, for those who care.

I figure, the converter issue is changed enough to merit firsthand experience before spouting off about how they suck -- even for a routine PT basher.
 
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