patch006 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Hi all, as the tittle says, I have a tc electronic firewire interface and have just bought mac book pro with the thunderbolt port. Is any one using these? Is there a adapter that i can get hold of so i can plug my interface in to the thunderbolt port? Quote
patch006 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 Can you go in to the usb from firewire? Quote
ben604 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 don't the Macbook Pros have firewire too? Quote
patch006 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 No, I have one of the newer ones with just this thunderbolt port. I can't find any adaptors that I can use. looks like the tc is for sale! Quote
crez5150 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 Belkin will have a docking station soon.... but I believe it will be expensive Quote
PTB Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 At the risk of stating the obvious, try a search on the Apple site, that usually gets me the answer to these sorts of questions. Quote
patch006 Posted November 21, 2011 Author Posted November 21, 2011 Yes I have tried the usual searches to no avail. Crez thats exactly what i need but it does seem like they are going to be pricy. I think i am going to have to get a usb interface for the time being. Quote
crez5150 Posted November 21, 2011 Posted November 21, 2011 I've been doing some work with a company oooop north who will have something along the lines of an adaptor but won't be here till new year..... I'll drop you a pm when they arrive and I've had a look. Quote
BigRedX Posted November 22, 2011 Posted November 22, 2011 Tread carefully when it comes to port adaptors for audio work. When Apple dropped the ADB, serial ports and SCSI from Macs in the 90s few of the adaptors that appeared worked for audio/MIDI applications and none of them reliably. Audio and MIDI are far more demanding and what might be a slight slow-down in transfer for a standard device can be far more problematic when dealing with data that is timing critical like multi-track audio and MIDI data. Also IME FireWire interfaces are much more susceptible to hardware and software incompatibilities. My mobile FW interface functions fine under all versions of OSX will not work at all with any version of OSX Server. Quote
patch006 Posted November 23, 2011 Author Posted November 23, 2011 Cheers Crez that would be good. Quote
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