zero4 with new macbook

headi murphy · Post by **headi murphy** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 5:58 am

there is no firewire output on my new macbook. tell me there is some sort of adapter or something for me to do..

holotropik · Post by **holotropik** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:01 am

No..not yet anyway

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:01 am

Apple took firewire off the normal macbooks, probably in order to encourage power users such as musicians to upgrade to the pro range (and spend their unlimited supply of money?!).

if you have a PC laptop you can get a PCMCIA card firewire interface. these cards are basically expansion cards for laptops, although I have seen adaptors for PCs too...

There isn't any USB>FireWire adaptor as far as I know. the speeds of the two differ greatly.

Edit:
I just noticed one company has made an adaptor but only for DV camera applications.... Something more may come around in the future but I wouldn't hold your breath...

headi murphy · Post by **headi murphy** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:34 am

is there anyway to control ableton w my zero 4 without firewire?

holotropik · Post by **holotropik** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:58 am

I grabbed the macbook pro....seriously worth the extra cash

as22 · Post by **as22** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:01 pm

they have FW800 just get yourself and adapter FW800 to FW400

headi murphy · Post by **headi murphy** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:17 am

as22 wrote:they have FW800 just get yourself and adapter FW800 to FW400

not the new ones..now i guess i just need to find another program to sync up w/ my cdjs...

can anyone help???

DJ TBA · Post by **DJ TBA** » Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:49 pm

headi murphy wrote:is there anyway to control ableton w my zero 4 without firewire?

Does the Z4 have Midi in and out?

If so you could get a usb to midi interface to at least use the midi aspects of the mixer.

holotropik · Post by **holotropik** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:57 am

Just found this hub that adds two FW 400 ports to your macbook. I have not tried it but it might be worth a look in?

http://www.aevoe.com/shop/moshi.asp?showthis=97

X-Trade · Post by **X-Trade** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:17 am

holotropik wrote:Just found this hub that adds two FW 400 ports to your macbook. I have not tried it but it might be worth a look in?

http://www.aevoe.com/shop/moshi.asp?showthis=97

looks from the diagrams and the spec that this needs to plug into both a USB and a FireWire socket on the laptop. its basically a USB hub and a FireWire hub rolled into one... unfortunately.

From what I was reading it is virtually impossible because firewire achieves a faster throughput speed than USB over sustained connections. so any FireWire/USB adaptor interface would be a bottleneck slowing down the data connection and reducing bandwidth.

don't know about USB 3.0 though