zero4 with new macbook
Posted: 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..
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:01 am
No..not yet anyway
Posted: 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...
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...
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 6:34 am
is there anyway to control ableton w my zero 4 without firewire?
Posted: Wed Apr 08, 2009 9:58 am
I grabbed the macbook pro....seriously worth the extra cash 
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 5:01 pm
they have FW800 just get yourself and adapter FW800 to FW400
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 6:17 am
not the new ones..now i guess i just need to find another program to sync up w/ my cdjs...as22 wrote:they have FW800 just get yourself and adapter FW800 to FW400
can anyone help???
Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:49 pm
Does the Z4 have Midi in and out?headi murphy wrote:is there anyway to control ableton w my zero 4 without firewire?
If so you could get a usb to midi interface to at least use the midi aspects of the mixer.
Posted: 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
http://www.aevoe.com/shop/moshi.asp?showthis=97
Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:17 am
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.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
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