Hi, I'm contemplating purchase of an Apollo duo with original thunderbolt card for use with both a Mac Pro 3.1 (early 2008 and a Macbook Pro 5.1 (late 2008), both of which are bit old but are listed as compatible and are not on the list of models that run at firewire 400 speeds.
My plan is to run firewire (with firewire firmware of course) until I can afford to update to a newer thunderbolt mac. I would be using it with a RME ADI-8 DS connected via adat and a Lucid AD9624 (2channel AD convertor) via spdif both externally clocked to apollo. I would like to use these additional convertors to achieve a total of 18 inputs to record with. From what I can tell, this is indeed possible but am interested if I can expect this in the real world. I'm using Cubase 7.5 as DAW.
Right before I was going to plunk down the cash for purchase I came across the long thread on this forum as well as other forums about all the issues with firewire errors, dropouts etc. and it scared me enough to hold off on my purchase as my current RME PCIe/digiface setup has been mostly reliable and offers a solid 24 ch. in and out. I would be willing to sacrifice the extra inputs on RME for the Apollo but only if it were as reliable.
I guess my main questions are:
Have the firewire issues truly been sorted out with the latest drivers and revisions?
Will I indeed be able achieve the 18 in, 24 out setup reliably as described above?
I'd appreciate any and all comments especially those with similar setups.
Thanks, Stephen
My plan is to run firewire (with firewire firmware of course) until I can afford to update to a newer thunderbolt mac. I would be using it with a RME ADI-8 DS connected via adat and a Lucid AD9624 (2channel AD convertor) via spdif both externally clocked to apollo. I would like to use these additional convertors to achieve a total of 18 inputs to record with. From what I can tell, this is indeed possible but am interested if I can expect this in the real world. I'm using Cubase 7.5 as DAW.
Right before I was going to plunk down the cash for purchase I came across the long thread on this forum as well as other forums about all the issues with firewire errors, dropouts etc. and it scared me enough to hold off on my purchase as my current RME PCIe/digiface setup has been mostly reliable and offers a solid 24 ch. in and out. I would be willing to sacrifice the extra inputs on RME for the Apollo but only if it were as reliable.
I guess my main questions are:
Have the firewire issues truly been sorted out with the latest drivers and revisions?
Will I indeed be able achieve the 18 in, 24 out setup reliably as described above?
I'd appreciate any and all comments especially those with similar setups.
Thanks, Stephen