It connects to your computer and lets you record and play back audio, just like a sound card, but audio interfaces have three things that make them special.įirstly the audio quality is generally better than a computer's built-in soundcard, in part because the components don't have to share space with a 600 watt power supply and an overclocked GPU.
What's an audio interface? It's a posh sound card. It is healthy, engorged, its tissue is pink.īut I'm digressing. Instead of squirting data down the cable in weak spurts, FireWire transfers information in a solid flow, as if its prostate had been bored out by one of the machines that dug the Channel Tunnel. It's even satisfying on a technical level. In contrast FireWire is the impossible dream, the impossible thrill. USB is cheap and dirty, but not in a sexy way. I have always associated USB with cheap cables and cheap MP3 players and cheap broken USB interfaces and cheap USB hubs and cheap USB card readers. The only thing animals know is that it feels good to penetrate, and be penetrated, and I feel that same sense of fulfilment when I use FireWire. They do not understand the practical purpose of copulation they do not understand that copulation ensures the continuation of the species. When I plug the cable in I imagine what it must be like to be an animal, such as a horse or pig. It feels good to connect my PowerBook G4 to a MOTU 828 with a FireWire cable. How does it feel to use FireWire? It feels good. As a young man I never dreamed that I would use FireWire, or that I would ever type out a paragraph that had the word FireWire in it seven times, and yet I did and I did, in that order. I didn't own an iPod or an Apple Macintosh, and yet eight years after Apple gave up on FireWire I now own four FireWire cables. During the entire lifespan of FireWire, roughly 1999-2012, I didn't use it. To paraphrase Oscar Gamble, no matter how much you think things will be like they are, they don't. NB I have no commercial relationship with MOTU other audio interfaces exist.
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MOTU's vintage interfaces are particularly interesting because the company still updates the drivers for its vintage gear, and even hosts the manuals, which are full of charming photos of musicians installing PCI cards into their Power Macintosh G4s and running software with OS9. Brand-new the two interfaces above would have cost £1,800 for the pair, but I paid around one-tenth that amount because there are lots available on the second-hand market. They're both physically tough 19" rackmount units. The PCI card could run four 2408s simultaneously so MOTU sold standalone 2408s as expansion units. During its life the 2408 system sold for around $1,000 with the card or $700 without.
There were three generations, released in 1998, 2000, and 2002 the final, Mk3 version remained on sale until the mid-2000s, by which time FireWire 800 and USB 2 had made PCI audio interfaces obsolescent. It was launched in 1998 and used a PCI card to connect to the host computer. If however you are an attractive young lady and you would like to "hook up" please get in touch via the comments. I would check, but the last time I went downstairs I upset a bottle of pee and it took ages for the smell to die down. They're multi-channel, multi-format devices with balanced 1/4" audio jacks and a bunch of digital interfaces that I will probably never use.Ī bunch of digital interfaces that I will probably never use, just like the box of condoms I bought back in 2008, when it seemed that I might finally get lucky. Thus equipped I committed to liaisons and although the 8 are ancient they're still useful today. Millennium.Īround the turn of the millennium my accommodation was embarrassing, but an acquaintance helped me acquire a driving licence and, concomitantly, a car. It's two-two, like accommodate or embarrass.
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They were both released around the turn of the millennium, give or take a couple of years, and I never thought I'd have to remember how to spell the word millennium in the year 2020 but here we are. From top to bottom the MOTU 828 Mk1 and the MOTU 2408 Mk3. Let's have a look at a couple of old audio interfaces.
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