Firewire CD burner

[Slim Shady]

hey ya'll,

just to add another option to the mix, check out the APS 16x10x40 firewire drive at http://www.apstech.com/prod/item.cfm?cat=2&item=945

It's due out later this month (although it's already been pushed back a few times) and according to the salesman I spoke to, it will use the much discussed Yamaha drive mechanism. These things are built like tanks, I've been using a (very) old 4x SCSI CD-R of theirs for 3 years now and have never had a problem with it, I can't wait to upgrade. Please Santa, Pretty Please?



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Slim

[carson]

The people who 'sold' me the Yamaha 16x10x40 told me that it would be here within a couple of weeks, but I haven't had a chance to get back to them and confront them with the new info from Armando. That's the story of IEEE 1394, they always say it will be here soon, and you can preorder etc, but all I wanna see is an actual device.

BTW, has anybody heard if there is an equivalent to Metric Halo's Mobile I/O from Yamaha or other companies on it's way? I'm saving some dough for that. I'm not even asking for something to use with PT, just something to use with _anything_.

[cnelson87]

To guitates - or anyone else who knows - Do you really need to burn at 1x for glass master? It seems to me that 1s and 0s at any speed are still 1s and 0s. As long as there are no burn errors, then it should sound exactly the same. Right???
For the record I'm using a QPS 8x4x32 firewire and Toast OEM 4.1.2. It works great - never a coaster.
One more thing, I was given a copy of Toast Deluxe 4.2 from a friend. Legalities aside, I didn't know Toast had a 4.2 version yet. Anyone know about this?

Chris

[Noiz2]

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">quote:<HR>Originally posted by cnelson87:
To guitates - or anyone else who knows - Do you really need to burn at 1x for glass master?
Chris<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It probably is true but so what... a glass master is a totaly diferent beast than a CDR. There are stability and error rate issues with CDRs and they are not nec. a perfect test for masters however this is not an issue about rec. speed and I have seen no info that a faster rate produces a poorer quality and in fact I read a report that the faster rates actualy burn more consistantly.
sk

[MisterMe]

I also have the QPS 12x10x32 Firewire and have had no problems with it either.

[AnalogTree]

Anyone using a Firewire drive with complete success and satisfaction, w/ similar or same setup? ...and what software?
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G4 500MHz dual processor
384 RAM & 40G (System) 40G (Audio)
PTLE 5.01
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-AT

Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. ~ Bruce Lee

[jophoff]

To anyone having problems with random audio or pops between tracks with FireWire burners: in my experience, it's a problem of unsupported hardware. I have a Fantom Drive with Plextor 12/10/32A mechanism, and it threw in random audio between tracks sometimes. When I updated Toast OEM to version 4.1.2, a version which had native support for the drive, I never had the problem again. I also no longer needed the FireSCSI extensions which formerly made Toast think it was a SCSI drive.

[AnalogTree]

I said Firewire Drive above, but of course, what I meant to say was Firewire CD burner


Appreciate any help, thanks.



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-AT

Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own. ~ Bruce Lee