Your best bet is to use some sort of PCI card solution, though I have never seen
one. This is why I use the 2300. It's slower, but I can import and export
digital audio using a Digidesign Nubus card (and I can only use it while
docked). Otherwise, I can think of no way to use the other existing ports for
audio. You are better off getting an iBook at this point since you will soon be
able to use the USB bus for 24 bit digital audio. Hey, that may be your
solution. I'm sure there are USB PCI card solutions! It'll require purchasing a
USB PCI card and then something like Opcode's upcoming USB Mac audio interface.
I believe that IS your only solution. Much more elegant than a limited sound
only card too. Yeah, 16-bit audio doesn't really do it, especially coming out of
those mini jacks.
Don't know why you're not hearing the noise when going straight to DAT unless
the noise is being amplified via headphones & speakers as a result of the 2400's
D/A, whereas going straight to DAT passes through the DAT's D/A as well (which
is undoubtedly far superior to the 2400's) before you hear it and somehow
reduces the amount of noise transmitted. Heck it may even cancel out the 2400's
noise. I'm not that into the technology of it.
Andrew Carlson wrote:
> On the subject of audio, I'd like to take an informal poll and see how many
> of us are musicians, producers, etc. and are using the 2400 for our work. I
> am curious to know what hardware/software setups are being used and problems
> and solutions have been discovered.
>
> I bought the 2400 primarily to do live work with a musical duo with backing
> sequences using Vision 3.5.6. I'm still in the process of putting together
> my sequences and rehearsing but would like to use the 2400 to produce a
> demo. It wasn't till well after I bought it that I discovered the inherent
> noise from the audio out. Any solutions or workarounds out there? I have
> dumped some stuff from DAT onto the machine and back out onto tape without
> noticing the squawking that I hear when hooking it up to some speakers or
> headphones.
>
> Any thoughts, ideas or comments from anyone are greatly appreciated.
>
> Andy
>
> >
> > i regularly use my 2400 to master audio works (multichannel - sometimes up
> > to 8 (with vst effects) ) from an external 4gB hd/CDWR burner unit i made..
> > works fine! and burning is 4x mostly.. one thing it doesn't want to do is
> > burn anything with cross fades.. ie in adaptec jam i have to render the
> > image BEFORE i can burn.
> >
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