just wondering...

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Jon D'oh

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Hello,

I was wondering about the following: I got the E-mu 1820m a few weeks ago, and it's working perfectly. A friend owns an RME multiface which he has hooked up to his laptop. Do you think E-mu could ever develop a pcmcia connection for the 1820m? I mean, is this physically possible? (the 1820m has sync and adat on the pci cards, as opposed to on the actual breakout box)
I believe the Multiface works with pci and pcmcia cards. Just thinking out loud :)

cheers,
nicky
 
I'm sure they could manufacture a PCMCIA version, but whether they will is highly unlikely. It seem as though most manufactures will turn to FireWire for portable solutions. Specially with the advent of GigaWire (FW 800) which offers nearly the same transfer rate as a 32 bit CardBus (100MBs vs 132MBs).

From FireWire-1394.com
Digital Audio
FireWire delivers the bandwidth required for high-quality digital audio. Even FireWire 400 has enough bandwidth over a single connector for hundreds of channels of noise free, high-resolution digital audio and up to 256 channels of MIDI. FireWire 800 can handle twice as many simultaneous real-time streams. Support for extremely long cabling gives you more configuration options with FireWire 800 than solutions such as USB, enabling you to use a FireWire 800 enabled computer as a virtual patch bay that connects audio devices in situations ranging from a personal studio to a huge multi-room production facility. You can even hot-swap devices in and out of the audio processing chain as your needs change.
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crankz1 said:
I'm sure they could manufacture a PCMCIA version, but whether they will is highly unlikely. It seem as though most manufactures will turn to FireWire for portable solutions. Specially with the advent of GigaWire (FW 800) which offers nearly the same transfer rate as a 32 bit CardBus (100MBs vs 132MBs).
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Yeah, I figured it's an unlikely event... I'm very happy with my Emu, though. Gigawire sounds rather majestic, wow. Imagine things running on this, while having 192 khz as a standard!
 
RME is already using FireWire 800 (Gigawire) on the Fireface 800. I'm sure others will be implementing the standard as well.
 
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