any current or future plans for firewire 001 type device?

[plazonby]

Could Brent or someone else from tech support answer this question- even just to say that they are not at liberty to answer the question?
Thanks
Pete

[Avid]

Digidesign, like many (if not most) companies, does not announce future products that may or may not be in development. With many companies, you will find that this is a fairly standard business practice for many reasons, including competition with other companies as well as to protect sales of existing products. Sometimes a company will pre-announce a product for different marketing reasons, such as when MOTU ran ads in many publications for about a year before their first audio hardware actually shipped.

[plazonby]

Thanks for the response. I read on a masterlist CD post that there were no current or future plans for the software to support firewire burners, so I wondered if you could answer the firewire 001 question. If I knew that such a product will emerge in the next two months then I would be spared buying a magma chassis for greater than the cost of an 001 in order to run an 001 on my PBG4- but you probably guessed that already-
I've been running protools systems professionally for 6 years now... any additional response however cryptic would be appreciated.

[ISedlacek]

I am facing the same question and the same uncertainity. I may buy the overexpensive (and a bit noisy) Magma chasis to be able to run Digi 001 with a laptop (and to fix the PT card there and back from G 4) and it may happen that after two months Digidesign will announce with a broad smile firewire based 001 (or 002). I think that this kind of a „high secret“ development policy is quite unfair towards the customers. The customers should be the prime consideration, because they are the most important factor in the business. Without them – the company has no job. I would really appreciate if Digidesign can say it straight and clear – either yes, we are developing a new generation of 001 with firewire support, will be released around … or not, we will definitely not make anything like this. Then one can buy Magma without any disappointment later.

[plazonby]

Business is unfair almost by definition. I prefer companies who don't pretend the customer comes first. You don't believe that stuff do you?
I didn't write this post to share my frustration or receive empathy, only to acquire a grain of information that, incidentally, might stop my $1K funding the gouging magma and redirect it into digi coffers...

Anyhow, I'll get the chassis next week and forget about all this nonsense and get back to writing tunes.

[ISedlacek]

I would be interested to know how it works. I was told that it makes a bit of noise with the fan. Do you have a Powerbook ?

[plazonby]

If you'd taken the time to actually read my post before spraying your thoughts on it, you would realise that yes I have a powerbook and that furthermore by your responses you have undermined the purpose of this posting.