[Ti] AAC vs MP3 (slightly OT)

[b]

Sam Hotchkiss paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 9:51AM -0700, Tarik Bilgin wrote:
>>The solution seems to be a USB  (Firewire if you are in Pro Audio) 
>>or PCMCIA based sound card.
>>
>>There is a nice one from a company for only $99 that was recently 
>>given excellent reviews at tomshardware.com that should give us 
>>(close to) hi-fi line out from our Ti's
>>
>>I'll track it down and post the links to the products here for 
>>those interested.
>
>awesome, thanks :)
>--

USB Audio cards are 'Pro", the firewire thing is about hard drives 
and running hardware that connects to the Mac, also. Every major 
[i.e. 'pro'] recording, audio signal treatment application out there 
will use USB. You want a card that has 24/96 capability to take 
advantage of the Mac's [including, certainly, the Ti-Books], amazing 
built-in audio capabilities.

The apps that are in common use with USB Audio, Audio/MIDI, and MIDI 
cards,include Reason 2, Logic 5, Waveburner Pro, Absynth [and all of 
the major, 'crucial' software-based samplers], etc

Don't get me wrong, there are Great firewire cards out there, no 
kidding, and tons of people use them. M-Audio's FireWire 410 is 
terrific for audio and MIDI in/out. But Mark of the Unicorn [the 
Digital Performer people] have a card that is in wide, professional 
use also, and it is a PCI card that offers complete separation from 
internal hum/noise, etc. Check out the MOTU 2408 at www.motu.com 
It's a standalone unit, and runs off the flagship PCI-424 card that 
offers up to 96 simultaneous tracks.. That's a lot of room for 
inexpensive software [VST, or MAS] effects to clean up even the 
messiest mix.

In firewire, for hardware disk recording, the MOTU 828 is amazing, 
also. But it is one of the cheaper FireWire hardware units and runs 
over $800 with taxes.

http://m-audio.rjmg.com/index.cfm?pid=3243  This takes you to the 
Maudio Quattro, 24bit/96kHz USB card ($349)

~flipper

There are lots of others, but it comes down to a card that works with 
the most audio processing systems.