Firepods

Anyone here running Firewire Firpod audio recording interface off their i7 clevo/sager laptops? I'm just curious if there is any compatibility issues?

Or if your running a different audio recording interface with success...plz reply too

 

no one here is in the same boat as me?

 

I'll let you know late december... I don't have mine yet, but I'm gonna be doing some light recording on it. It has a firewire port, but people have been saying the audio is pretty bad. I'm gonna try to fiddle with it when I get the lappy. I'm a bit of an audiophile, so this could be a real downer when I get it.

Other than that, I've found that ASIO4ALL usually fixed any problems I had with my horrible Dell soundcard.

 

why would the audio (soundcard? what do ya mean?) on the laptop even matter? It should all be going through the interface. In my case Firepods.

When i run firepods on my desktop's firewire....all audio is routed thru the firepods. Basically, turning them into the "soundcard" of the system.

 

^ Yes I think that would be the point

Maybe you got confused by his usage of 'but'.

I'm using a Presonus Inspire 1394. Funny thing about 6 pin firewire, the 2 extra pins (only a few Alienwares and of course Macbooks have more than 4 pin) are totally undefined, they are meant to power the device on anything from 12-20v AC or DC but its MUCH more than that. I think because audio devices already have such good quality DC current and voltage filtering.

My Presonus Inspire has a wall wart which is 16v AC. It worked perfectly on 12v DC.. and then I tried it with a 6 pin expresscard plugged into USB 5v. It worked, meaning, I can go on battery with my firewire soundcard device. It definitely depends on the device and not Firewire itself.

Why do you guys want a stationary rackmount firewire soundcard? My inspire is roughly the equivalent of carrying an extra power supply around. A little chunkier than a 120w but not much heavier.
It wont sound any better just because its bigger

Anyway haven't used it on an i7 Clevo recently HOWEVER you should know that good realtime audio depends on the exact firewire 1394 chip. Not that there will be compatibility issues per say, but with higher bandwidth recording, trying to use your laptop as an 8 channel grain delay effect pedal, etc you may experience some DPC latency if these Clevos do not use a TI chip which is likely.

I hope you can trust that this information is true although I don't have a source. There are some other members around who know a lot more about this.
If you aren't using a lot of bandwidth then I don't think its anything to worry about. And, it tends to help to turn off wireless devices.

 

i was told the x7200 uses TI chip....and the other (8130,8150,8170) use a Jmicron i believe