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November 24, 2004
apple rumour - firewire based i/o interface coming
Update: apple insider has this slightly more realistic looking rendition of what you'd be getting from apple for sub $200AUD. They've supplied some fairly compelling reasons to believe in this puppy, not the least which being, that in the 10.3.7 OSX update (earlier versions) Apple included firewire audio interface drivers. Handy. Apple swallowed up Emagic - makers of the supurb Logic Audio - and have used that nouse to produce this... so it should be a reasonable quality product. I think one of these, an ibook and a copy of just about any music package would make a quite decent portable music workstation - if you were say buy, this if/when it eventuates, an ibook and use garagband, you've have a rather cute audio setup. Certainly not the most amazingly powerful setup, but for the money - not too shabby either.
/update
Wel well well, what do we have here then? The image is a artists impression of what Apple might be making. They're rumoured to be launching a firewire based audio breakout box code name "Asteroid". The basics are as follows. 4 inputs, limited to any 2 active simultaneously - it has XLR and 1/4" Tip Ring Sleeve Jacks (2 of each) phantom power, 2 analogue channels for output and also 1 digital.
It'll be designed to work with garage band, and they intend to launch it at the San Francisco Macworld expo in January 2005. If it surfaces - cool. If not.... well.. I'm still having trouble coming to grips with the US retail price being bandied about $129USD - as a rather witty commentator points out on the powerpage.org website, "150? Come on! Apple sells socks for 40 USD..."
Source: powerpage.org Via Gizmodo.com
Posted by funnelbc at November 24, 2004 08:11 PM
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