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Firewire Audio Interface to Non Firewire PC

gaza4
By gaza4
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hey guys, have an old m-audio firewire box from my mac days that i'm looking to start using again. my currect PC has an MSI mini itx board with no firewire port or header and my only pci slot is occupied by my gpu. is there ANY way i can connect this interface to my machine???

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I got this from a website/forum called videomaker: Yes they do. I had to work with a laptop that did not have a fire wire port, so i used a combo usb2 / fire wire adapter to connect my old Sony camcorder to the laptop to upload video files for editing back in the days of 4x3 SD video

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I got this from a website/forum called videomaker: Yes they do. I had to work with a laptop that did not have a fire wire port, so i used a combo usb2 / fire wire adapter to connect my old Sony camcorder to the laptop to upload video files for editing back in the days of 4x3 SD video

 

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The firewire audio standard cannot persist over a firewire -> USB connection. It won't work.

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Perhaps I wasn't clear enough. The firewire audio standard cannot persist over a firewire -> USB connection. It won't work.

I figured that, but might you be able to adapt it actively?

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Yes. And that requires an expansion card.

I meant if you adapted it through USB using a dedicated controller or something.

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Never heard of such a thing. According to the Focusrite website, nothing like that exists.

But... We have the technology... We can BUILD it!

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