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 Focusrite ForteWin A Piece of Fender History!
Focusrite Forte
The Focusrite Forte Suite is a channel strip plug-in (TDM, RTAS) for Pro Tools based on the now legendary Focusrite Forte recording console of the mid-80s (original price for Forte console: $1.5 million). These modules comprise a host of powerful vintage processing blocks, including the original six-band EQ, compressor, gate and expander. In addition the plug-in is scalable, including a complete channel strip, a stereo version of each module as well as a variety of set-ups for 5.1 processing, all supporting TDM, RTAS and Audio Suite formats.Win A Piece of Fender History!
Fender is giving away the very first American Series Strat guitar that features the revolutionary S-1 switching system and was one of the first samples shown at the 2003 Summer NAMM show in Nashville. This web contest if featured on the Fender site and is open to just about anyone!
Focusrite ForteWin A Piece of Fender History!
RODE S1
RODE started working on the S1 two years ago and found that there was a real need for a studio quality hand held microphone that could handle the beating of constant touring. Record with it during the day, and then take it to a gig at night, it's a killer for both applications and RODE is so confident of its integrity, they have guaranteed for 5 years parts and labor even if accidentally damaged by the owner!Sweetwater Price Reduction - Tascam DM-24
We've lowered the price on Tascam's best-selling digital console! The DM-24 is a feature-packed mixer with 24 inputs and 8 busses, automation and you can use it with your DAW due to built in HUI emulation. This is one sweet deal that you can't pass on, call today.
RODE S1Sweetwater Price Reduction - Tascam DM-24
Focusrite Forte
The Focusrite Forte Suite is a channel strip plug-in (TDM, RTAS) for Pro Tools based on the now legendary Focusrite Forte recording console of the mid-80s (original price for Forte console: $1.5 million). These modules comprise a host of powerful vintage processing blocks, including the original six-band EQ, compressor, gate and expander. In addition the plug-in is scalable, including a complete channel strip, a stereo version of each module as well as a variety of set-ups for 5.1 processing, all supporting TDM, RTAS and Audio Suite formats.Win A Piece of Fender History!
Fender is giving away the very first American Series Strat guitar that features the revolutionary S-1 switching system and was one of the first samples shown at the 2003 Summer NAMM show in Nashville. This web contest if featured on the Fender site and is open to just about anyone!
RODE S1Sweetwater Price Reduction - Tascam DM-24
RODE S1
RODE started working on the S1 two years ago and found that there was a real need for a studio quality hand held microphone that could handle the beating of constant touring. Record with it during the day, and then take it to a gig at night, it's a killer for both applications and RODE is so confident of its integrity, they have guaranteed for 5 years parts and labor even if accidentally damaged by the owner!Sweetwater Price Reduction - Tascam DM-24
We've lowered the price on Tascam's best-selling digital console! The DM-24 is a feature-packed mixer with 24 inputs and 8 busses, automation and you can use it with your DAW due to built in HUI emulation. This is one sweet deal that you can't pass on, call today.
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| OXFW911 |
The OXFW911 (otherwise known as the Oxford 911 Bridge) is a high-performance FireWire (1394) to ATA/ATAPI (IDE) native bridge with an integrated target Serial Bus Protocol (SBP-2) controller. By supporting the SBP-2 protocol, the device can use generic SBP-2 drivers available in the Microsoft Windows 98SE, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Millennium and Apple Mac OS operating systems. Mac OS support also includes booting from Firewire disk.
The OXFW911 is suited for interface applications for removable-media drives, compact flash card readers, CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, DVD-RAM and hard disk drives, allowing IDE drives to be connected to a 1394 serial bus in a plug-and-play fashion (see WFTD: Hot Swap). |
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| Glyph's hot-swapping FireWire technology explained. |
Q: "How do Glyph's FireWire drives deal with hot-swapping?"
A: In addition to the FireWire to ATA Bridge chip itself, Glyph bridge circuits incorporate what's called a "PHY" (physical layer) chip, which translates the OXFW911's link signals into the signals that travel out the FireWire cable to your computer and other FireWire devices on the bus.
The PHY has a little bit of intelligence of its own, which allows it to signal to the OXFW911 (the FireWire to ATA Bridge processor) when it's been connected or disconnected from another FireWire device or computer. This capability permits the FireWire devices to be connected or disconnected while power is applied and figure out what's going on (what's commonly called hot-plugging or hot-swapping). FireWire PHY chips are designed to be electrically sturdy - after all, they have to take the electrical abuse of being connected while power is applied.
Most hard drives are produced with the common parallel ATA/IDE interface, which was designed for fixed-drive use within a computer chassis. The ATA electrical signals, and the ATA software protocols, were not designed to support connection or disconnection of drives while power is applied. That action, called hot-plugging or hot-swapping, requires special electrical circuits and software, to manage the additional removal of devices, as well as defending against electrical problems when connectors are mated and demated. |
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