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by **drayon** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:49 am

Here looks like the SCSI device for G5's to solve the 'No PCI Slots and no PCI - X SCSI Cards' issue and Aluminium Powerbooks 'PITA with Cardbus SCSI'.

Ratoc Systems now have the 'USB2.0 to Ultra SCSI Converter U2SCX' $69 USD

http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/pro ... u2scx.html

This looks VERY viable as it is the ONLY one of its kind that supports the full 7 SCSI devices on the SCSI chain. Other similar devices only support one device and have proven to be problematic in most situations.

Hopefully this thing is propa. Ill werd em up real soon, i have some questions, if tins is sound as a pound ill buy one and let everyone know how the device behaves. If anyone has any specific test conditions they'd like me to perform werd up an ill do my very best to come cross.

Laiterz u ghetto pimps

by **Klaseed** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:13 pm

Ah, thanks for posting that up. The reasons for keeping my PC around alongside my 12" AlBook just got one less (it's down to Sound Forge and Blockfish now...)

by **drayon** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:22 pm

What is 'Blockfish' and how are u using it? No alternative on the Mac?

BTW, Pro Tools LE is so much better than Sound Forge esp for beats. I think im going to go buy a shitty little MBOX and be done with it. Rogue Music have them well cheep $339. Im only going to use it for sample editing so i guess thats pretty cheep when i think about. The software alone is worth that price in MHO. USB audio devices are a fsckin stoopidassed idea tho.

Laiterz

by **Klaseed** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 10:39 pm

Blockfish is a VST compressor from digitalfishphones that I really like.

How do you find PTLE to be better than Soundforge for sample editing? Maybe i'm just used to SF, but it seems a lot easier/quicker than PT... I agree about USB, though - FW or serial for me, please.

by **ratty** » Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:56 pm

Drayon mate, give yourself a nice big pat on the back for finding that :slayer:

I'd be interested to see if it would work with transfers from recycle 2.0 running in OS9 classic support.

Bigups mate :thumbs:

by **ezman** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 10:45 am

drayon wrote:What is 'Blockfish' and how are u using it? No alternative on the Mac?

http://www.digitalfishphones.com/main.p ... &subItem=5

looks like they got 3 versions for mac :thumbs:

by **Klaseed** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:32 pm

When did that happen?!?!?!

Haha, thanks for the heads up drayon, that just made my day :spliff:

by **ezman** » Thu Apr 22, 2004 9:23 pm

Klaseed wrote::shock:

When did that happen?!?!?!

Haha, thanks for the heads up drayon, that just made my day

So it's down to Sound Forge now for you!? Weird, I moved from mac to pc recently and miss Bias Peak heaps :cry:

by **ratty** » Mon May 24, 2004 3:47 pm

so did anyone ever try this lead out then?

by **drayon** » Tue May 25, 2004 11:29 am

ratty wrote:so did anyone ever try this lead out then?

aight, after some further investigation, i learned that this unit will ONLY support 1 SCSI device at a time, which totally blowz (for me at least cos i got 3 EMU's a K2500 an SCSI CDROM and ext SCSI disks etc).

Ratoc claim a special driver is needed to get 7 devices working (emulated). They claim they have not been able to get it working. It's a longshot, but im gonna pressure them into letting me know what problem they have since i may have several leads that may be able to unlock a few tings and possibly help em get a driver working.

anwayz, laiterz 4 now

by **ratty** » Tue May 25, 2004 1:20 pm

So if, like me, you only have one sampler to connect then it's all good yeah?

by **drayon** » Tue May 25, 2004 1:29 pm

ratty wrote:So if, like me, you only have one sampler to connect then it's all good yeah?

jah mon, it should be sufficient for a single EMU.

by **ratty** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:06 pm

Ideal, payday thursday so I'll soon be in business. Nice one for checking that out mate, you're a true soldier :slayer:

all I need to do now is get a motu828 driver that works with OS9 classic so I can get busy with recycle.

Bigups.

by **ratty** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:16 pm

Should it be ok with OSX 10.3 though?

by **drayon** » Tue May 25, 2004 2:17 pm

ratty wrote:Ideal, payday thursday so I'll soon be in business. Nice one for checking that out mate, you're a true soldier

all I need to do now is get a motu828 driver that works with OS9 classic so I can get busy with recycle.

Bigups.

Why go thru hell with Mac OS 9x? ugh, i had to boot to it the other nite to test some shit in Pro Tools. Man, wot a pita that OS is.

Im using Peak 4.1.1 to xfer samples to the EMU in X. (if u wannit lemme know an ill hook ya up but u need to b connected to the net in Mac OS X). I find, if im choppin up breaks, i use recycle, to export the slices to the hard disk then i open em up in peak an send em to the EMU. I almost always need to be editing the samples b4 they enter the EMoo anyhow.

Life will be soooooooo much nicer if we get ZoeOS for Mac OS X, it will let us drag n drop samples from the Finder directly to locations in the EMU and eventually have a waveform editor. Maybe someday we can do it all just in ZoeOS, slice the break an send samples to the EMU...hella cool ;-)

emusonacid! legacy

Hey yo Ratty and other G5 & AL Powerbook users lookie er

Hey yo Ratty and other G5 & AL Powerbook users lookie er