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When it's time for your Mac to start talking MIDI to the rest of your rig, the technology, like the truth, is out there. But should you spend a few pounds, or a few hundred? Mike Collins has the information you need.
The new M Box 2 Pro is the first portable Pro Tools interface that connects via Firewire rather than USB. As a result, users get more I/O, a phono preamp and word clock support among other bonuses.
Edirol are best known for their desktop music products, but they're heading into the professional arena with the DA2496, a high-quality eight-channel audio interface with a PCI card and breakout box.
Prism Sound's Orpheus interface brings the company's highend digital conversion technology within reach of the project studio owner for the first time.
Unlike most eight-channel interfaces, the Presonus Firepod includes eight mic preamps — at a very appealing price.
M-Audio have broken a price barrier with their Firewire 410, which is easily the most affordable Firewire recording interface on the market.
The much-anticipated Hercules 1612FW Firewire interface supplies an impressive quotient of analogue I/O at a very attractive price.
The baby of Tascam's US range of interfaces dispenses with its big brothers' control faders, but does boast stereo audio I/O with phantom power supplied over USB, as well as MIDI I/O.
Edirol's first foray into Firewire audio is a compact 10-in, 10-out device with microphone preamps, S/PDIF and MIDI.
If you fancy Tascam's FW series of Firewire interfaces but don't need their control-surface features, the new FW1804 might be just what you are looking for.
Digidesign's LE range has received a comprehensive overhaul in the last year, and the new flagship 003 and 003 Rack incorporate many improvements over their predecessors.
Edirol's latest offering is a well-specified multi-port USB MIDI interface which claims to offer excellent timing.
Joining the growing market for one-box devices that combine audio and MIDI interfacing with control-surface functionality, Tascam's latest Firewire unit might be all you need for multitrack recording and mixing.
Yamaha's list of mLAN products continues to grow, and their rackmounting i88X offers high-quality mic preamps, analogue, digital and MIDI I/O in a 1U rack unit.
With their latest recording tool, Tascam aim to entice hobbyists away from their cassette multitrackers and onto their computers.
Echo's range of computer hardware has always been popular with musicians, and the company have now launched the third generation of their Layla and Gina multi-channel audio and MIDI interfaces.
The Fireface 802 FS provides users with a high-end 60-channel recording solution that boasts ultra-low latency operation and the stable, reliable performance that RME are renowned for.
The WIDIFLEX and WIDIFLEX USB from Nektar offer wireless MIDI solutions for almost any MIDI device.
128 MIDI channels would have seemed like complete overkill ten years ago, but today's multitimbral voice modules can use them up at an alarming rate. Martin Russ checks out an eight-port patchbay/interface from Opcode.
Derek Johnson tries out a new multi-port USB MIDI interface that's also designed to allow connection of serial-port gear.