Re: OT: LapTop interfaces-

[Andrew Pask <andrew@kaleidacousticon.com>]

> Metric Halo announced a firewire based 1 rack unit interface
> w/ 8 channels analog i/o, 2 channels digital (AES or S/PDIF)
> and internal DSP.  The version w/ 1 DSP is estimated to be $1500 list,
> one w/ 2 chips is at $2500.  I spoke to a salesman on the phone
> today, but he didn't know what the latency would be for host-based
> processing, or if they were mLan compatible (I assume not, though
> the press release says that the rack box software is "upgradeable").
> ETA is dec/january.  There's some info on it at harmony central in
> their AES news section.
> 

I don't know if it'll matter too much if it's not mLan compatible,
they're including both native drivers and ASIO drivers, hopefully it'll 
work
straight out of the box with most of our apps.

http://www.mhlabs.com/mobileio/mobile_IO.html

L8r

Andrew