Elektron Musical Instruments

Greetings -

I am the owner of a Machine Drum and am inquiring as
to what I need to be able to record my creations using
my G4 Powerbook.  I am open to some sugguestions as to
what software and audio interfaces would work best
with my Powerbook.  However, I am curious as to if
investing in an audio interface and some software
would be the answer to my prayers.  Is another way to go?


		
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It depends on what you want to do.  If you just want to record the MD 
live into the Powerbook, you could get away with something like an 
Indigo I/O (PCMCIA audio card), and free software, such as Audacity.

http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardBus/IndigoIO/index.php
http://audacity.sourceforge.net

Hope this helps.

/Scott

Robert Ryman wrote:

> Greetings -
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> I am the owner of a Machine Drum and am inquiring as
> to what I need to be able to record my creations using
> my G4 Powerbook.  I am open to some sugguestions as to
> what software and audio interfaces would work best
> with my Powerbook.  However, I am curious as to if
> investing in an audio interface and some software
> would be the answer to my prayers.  Is another way to go?
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> It depends on what you want to do.  If you just want to record the MD
> live into the Powerbook, you could get away with something like an
> Indigo I/O (PCMCIA audio card), and free software, such as Audacity.
>
> http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardBus/IndigoIO/index.php
> http://audacity.sourceforge.net
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> /Scott


Don't buy the Indigo I/O, it doesn't work well on Al Powerbooks.
I tried two of them.

Get a firewire interface instead, there's a new presonus one which is 
nice and compact.

> Don't buy the Indigo I/O, it doesn't work well on Al Powerbooks.
> I tried two of them.

Ah, didn't know that.

> 
> Get a firewire interface instead, there's a new presonus one which is 
> nice and compact.

Yep, I've heard good things about this interface.  Might cost a little 
more, though.

/Scott

I disagree.  I've got an Indigo I/O and an Al powerbook and it seems to 
work fine.  Federico, what was the problem you had on the Al Book?  
I'll try to duplicate it on mine.

Do hope I can buy another MOTU 828 Mk2 again pretty soon... (Sold it 
before a move).  That is my i/o box of choice currently.  I don't 
really have enough time to do any recording though for the moment.

Yours,
Chris

On Nov 10, 2004, at 7:51 AM, Federico Ciapi wrote:

>
>> It depends on what you want to do.  If you just want to record the MD
>> live into the Powerbook, you could get away with something like an
>> Indigo I/O (PCMCIA audio card), and free software, such as Audacity.
>>
>> http://www.echoaudio.com/Products/CardBus/IndigoIO/index.php
>> http://audacity.sourceforge.net
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>> /Scott
>
>
> Don't buy the Indigo I/O, it doesn't work well on Al Powerbooks.
> I tried two of them.
>
> Get a firewire interface instead, there's a new presonus one which is
> nice and compact.
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

> I disagree.  I've got an Indigo I/O and an Al powerbook and it seems to
> work fine.  Federico, what was the problem you had on the Al Book?
> I'll try to duplicate it on mine.

Quite simply, sometimes it was recognised and worked fine, some others 
it wasn't recognised and would hang the Powerbook.
I have one of the first Al PB 1.25ghz.

Echo support was really bad, suggesting me to install wrong drivers, 
and many other kinds of BS.
Finally I had to change the card (the second one) with something else.
I think the problem was within the drivers because the log showed that 
the card was recognised when inserted in the slot, but sometimes the 
driver couldn't load properly.

Sound quality of the Indigo I/O is good anyway; and may be they have 
fixed the problem I had, but are the latest drivers the old ones for 
Jaguar?
If so, then it's not a good sign for a Mac user...

There are many options for you Robert. Check out the simple and cheap USB interfaces 
like my Emagic A62m. They're perfect when you don't need loads of inputs. Firewire and 
PCMCIA (like presonus, MOTU and RME) are much more pro, but also much more 
expensive. On my wishlist is the firewire MOTU 828 mkII because I want maaaaaaaany I/
O's!

ciao dtr

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert Ryman <rryman23@y...> wrote:

> Greetings -
> 
> I am the owner of a Machine Drum and am inquiring as
> to what I need to be able to record my creations using
> my G4 Powerbook.  I am open to some sugguestions as to
> what software and audio interfaces would work best
> with my Powerbook.  However, I am curious as to if
> investing in an audio interface and some software
> would be the answer to my prayers.  Is another way to go?
> 
> 
> 		
> __________________________________ 
> Do you Yahoo!? 
> Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. 
> www.yahoo.com

You don't really need to buy anything to record into the powerbook.  
You might want to go to macmusic.org to get Line In and Audacity.  
Just get a 1/8 input cord plug it into the powerbook.

--- In elektron-users@yahoogroups.com, Robert Ryman <rryman23@y...> 
wrote:

> Greetings -
> 
> I am the owner of a Machine Drum and am inquiring as
> to what I need to be able to record my creations using
> my G4 Powerbook.  I am open to some sugguestions as to
> what software and audio interfaces would work best
> with my Powerbook.  However, I am curious as to if
> investing in an audio interface and some software
> would be the answer to my prayers.  Is another way to go?
> 
> 
> 		
> __________________________________ 
> Do you Yahoo!? 
> Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. 
> www.yahoo.com

Just to pipe in, I'm using Panther on a Titanium 15" 1ghz PowerBook 
with both an Echo Indigo DJ and an Echo Indigo I/O, and the both work 
famously.  Great sound quality, great drivers, nice little mixer 
console for the virtual outputs, low latency, couldn't be happier.

Might have been Jaguar?

On Nov 10, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Federico Ciapi wrote:

>
>> I disagree.  I've got an Indigo I/O and an Al powerbook and it seems 
>> to
>> work fine.  Federico, what was the problem you had on the Al Book?
>> I'll try to duplicate it on mine.
>
> Quite simply, sometimes it was recognised and worked fine, some others
> it wasn't recognised and would hang the Powerbook.
> I have one of the first Al PB 1.25ghz.
>
> Echo support was really bad, suggesting me to install wrong drivers,
> and many other kinds of BS.
> Finally I had to change the card (the second one) with something else.
> I think the problem was within the drivers because the log showed that
> the card was recognised when inserted in the slot, but sometimes the
> driver couldn't load properly.
>
> Sound quality of the Indigo I/O is good anyway; and may be they have
> fixed the problem I had, but are the latest drivers the old ones for
> Jaguar?
> If so, then it's not a good sign for a Mac user...
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>
>