J
jeff0633
Member
Hi Pete (and all others)
I notice in some of your postings that you are hooked on the adat card way of doing things. I just purchased two 1 gig jaz drives on ebay for 25 bucks each. I purchased three 1 gig disks for 30 bucks including shipping. That's 80 bucks, and they are as fast as many hard drives, I can transfer all 16 tracks, not in real time, but as fast as moving files from one hard drive to another, and then take the disk and load it in my jaz that's hooked up to the computer, and load them into Cooledit quickly, and all tracks are in sync, not just 8 of them. I still have adat, cause I can record anything in adat to the VF-160 first, then use my jaz to send it to the computer. I can format one disk and use it for backing up programs in the VF format, and use others for transfering wav files. I got the printer port converter too, and I can take my external jaz drive with me and hook it right up to any other computer as well, right to their printer port. I sold my 24 bit Echo Mia card on ebay for $125? (bid is still going), and paid around 80 bucks for this awesome backup package. The jaz in my computer is the internal, and the external stays with the VF-160. I can add many more 1 gig disks for around ten bucks each. Even one disk will transfer an entire 16 track 4 minute song, all in sync, to the computer in just minutes, for 80 bucks, and I still have adat in to the computer by using the one extra step of the jaz drive. Folks, an internal jaz for your computer, and an external for your VF can be had for around 60 bucks for both on ebay. This is definitely the way to go. I have tried to think of what adavntages the adat has over the jaz drive route, but I cannot think of any. I can think of many that the jaz has over the adat card route. Hell, I could have only purchased one external jaz drive with the printer port adaptor (or USB), and it would have been even far cheaper, but I liked the idea of not having to unplug the drive all the time. I looked on ebay again, and there was an internal unit with scsi PCI card and cable for frickin 25 more bucks, so I grabbed it. There are tons of these drives on ebay, all in the 20-40 range, and the new 2 gig drives are in the 40-70 range. Since a 1 gig will transfer many tracks, I don't see the need for the more expensive 2 gig. So there you go, a way to get 24 tracks, all in sync, over to your computer as fast as copying them from one drive to another, and for less than a 100 bucks. and you get to take it with you and hook it up to any othr computer too, and they also make a USB cable that will let the jaz hook up to any usb port.
Awesome!!
Jeff
I notice in some of your postings that you are hooked on the adat card way of doing things. I just purchased two 1 gig jaz drives on ebay for 25 bucks each. I purchased three 1 gig disks for 30 bucks including shipping. That's 80 bucks, and they are as fast as many hard drives, I can transfer all 16 tracks, not in real time, but as fast as moving files from one hard drive to another, and then take the disk and load it in my jaz that's hooked up to the computer, and load them into Cooledit quickly, and all tracks are in sync, not just 8 of them. I still have adat, cause I can record anything in adat to the VF-160 first, then use my jaz to send it to the computer. I can format one disk and use it for backing up programs in the VF format, and use others for transfering wav files. I got the printer port converter too, and I can take my external jaz drive with me and hook it right up to any other computer as well, right to their printer port. I sold my 24 bit Echo Mia card on ebay for $125? (bid is still going), and paid around 80 bucks for this awesome backup package. The jaz in my computer is the internal, and the external stays with the VF-160. I can add many more 1 gig disks for around ten bucks each. Even one disk will transfer an entire 16 track 4 minute song, all in sync, to the computer in just minutes, for 80 bucks, and I still have adat in to the computer by using the one extra step of the jaz drive. Folks, an internal jaz for your computer, and an external for your VF can be had for around 60 bucks for both on ebay. This is definitely the way to go. I have tried to think of what adavntages the adat has over the jaz drive route, but I cannot think of any. I can think of many that the jaz has over the adat card route. Hell, I could have only purchased one external jaz drive with the printer port adaptor (or USB), and it would have been even far cheaper, but I liked the idea of not having to unplug the drive all the time. I looked on ebay again, and there was an internal unit with scsi PCI card and cable for frickin 25 more bucks, so I grabbed it. There are tons of these drives on ebay, all in the 20-40 range, and the new 2 gig drives are in the 40-70 range. Since a 1 gig will transfer many tracks, I don't see the need for the more expensive 2 gig. So there you go, a way to get 24 tracks, all in sync, over to your computer as fast as copying them from one drive to another, and for less than a 100 bucks. and you get to take it with you and hook it up to any othr computer too, and they also make a USB cable that will let the jaz hook up to any usb port.
Awesome!!
Jeff