Firewire 800 to usb with broken usb drivers#
It's not a fault of the standard if the device can't however, just a how the implementation of the standard has been applied.Ah ok thanksīut as I understand, 'any standard' can make use of multiples of an interface with multiple-client drivers written for it, whether USB, Firewire, PCI(e) etc, correct? If so, I wouldn't think Firewire would make any difference in this regard, between other standards. Firewire is chainable, it was one of the selling features behind the tech, you can chain half a dozen with ease if you wish and anything in the chain can make use of the data being passed back and forth if it has the capability too see and make use of it. Given the correct multi-client drivers they could. It's not a fault of the standard if the device can't however, just a how the implementation of the standard has been applied.
Keep in mind, I'm a one man band, so I'm never sending a hell of a lot at once through the FW pipe.Īs I said, I just may be misunderstanding this info regarding Firewire being "peer to peer" and that it 'implies' you can use multiple FW devices at the same time.Given the correct multi-client drivers they could. Oh, and regarding using FW interfaces in general, my above older Tascam FW unit's seem to work well (got em' used dirt cheap too!), and they're each FW 400. I of course know I can switch between my 2 Tascams and use one at a time. you need multi-client drivers written to use multiples of any audio interface (Tascam's drivers are not multi-client).Īs I said, I just may be misunderstanding this info regarding Firewire being "peer to peer" and that it 'implies' you can use multiple FW devices at the same time. I've read of other Tascam users who've tried this and it didn't work.įrom what I know about how audio interfaces work. Reading the above posted info on FW, it would have made me believe that I'd be able to use BOTH my Tascam's (FW-1082 & FW-1084) on the same computer, at the same time. I have 2 Tascam FW interfaces, a FW-1082 & FW-1884 (both interface/controller/mixer boards). What I mean is that, this seems to imply that since FireWire is considered "peer to peer", that I'm able to use 2 FW interfaces at the same time, expanding my total I/O capability. Interesting, unless I'm misunderstanding the above, this is also misleading, as far as I understand how FireWire interfaces work anyway.
It has resources it can set aside to make sure your audio gets where it needs to"
Firewire 800 to usb with broken usb manual#
Here there is a statement in the manual of a Weiss audio interface. The question is what provides the necessary speed you need and what does provide this speed more stabil for audio. It has resources it can set aside to make sure your audio gets where it needs to But Firewire willĪlways be able to handle more load with lower latency and no glitches, because For audio devices, USB will do ne if no other devicesĪre competing with it and if you have processor room to spare. For hard drives, either one will do (although Firewire is Usually just send a two channel stereo signal.įor hooking up your mouse, keyboard or thumb drive, USB is plenty fastĪnd plenty cheap. Interfaces (18 channels, 24 channels, etc.) are Firewire devices, and USB devices From a practical perspective, this also makes it safer Owing, and as long as there isn't more bandwidthĭemand than the wire can handle (not very likely) nothing will interfere with it. The advantages for audio should be obvious: that stream It gets a certain number of time slicesĮach second all its own. Is isochronous mode, and it lets a device carve out a certain dedicated amount ofīandwidth that other devices cant touch. One is asynchronous, similar to what USB uses. Reliable than USB is more fundamental than that. More reliable, and this is one of those times. Specialized hardware usually makes things faster and So the load it puts on your CPU is much lighter than USB communications load,Īnd you're much less likely to lose any sound data just because you're runningįteen things at once. Firewire isĪlways implemented in hardware, with a special controller chip on every device.
Your computer is justĪnother peer on this network, and has no inherent special status. A Firewire audio interfaceĬould save sound data directly to a Firewire hard drive. On a Firewire network can share data with each other. Network is equally capable of talking to every other device.
Firewire is a peer-to-peer protocol, meaning that every device on a Firewire