@newt
What can I say… Enjoy? 🤔
My olde FW410 has the same set of features, doesn't even have USB, and also still somehow works. I think it was one of the early cards in this form-factor, together with Digidesign Mbox 2, that later got very popular.
And the fact that it uses Firewire allows it to support 96 kHz on all inputs and outputs and up to 192 kHz when only using stereo.
And allowed it to even in the early 2000s when no USB card could afford it 😎
@newt
Fair, but this thing is two decades old already.
Personally, I've never seen the point in using sampling rates higher than 48 kHz on these mobile interfaces — when you really need that you would probably be at the studio anyway, using a better interface with better mic pre-amps instead of ones integrated into these — and a better computer instead of a laptop which would probably be struggling working with the project at higher sample rates and making noises.
@newt
Not that they are lacking in terms of raw computing power, you could do mixing of a rather complex project even on the early i7 easily, it's more about lacking efficient cooling — unlike photo and even video processing, when you do something that requires relatively little computing power and then start rendering — this is when the fans kick in, but you no longer care, with audio the workload is constant…
@newt
…and when in addition to having to listen to the same shit again and again
you have to listen to constant fan noise, it's usually driving me insane 🤪
You're right, the computers got even more powerful, so it's probably not that bad now, but I have my doubts — with audio the nature of workload is different, even if you're using only 30% of your CPU's computing power, it's still constant and the fans would kick in sooner or later and never go out 🤷
