Connect M-Audio FW410 & PreSonus ...

Connect M-Audio FW410 & PreSonus FireStudio?

Posted on Feb 06, 2008 10:09 pm
DukeONuke
Member Since: Jan 19, 2008

Can I daisy chain the FW410 to the Firestudio via firewire or not? I've got the FW410 plugged into the Firestudio and the connection is bus powering my FW410 but I'm not getting any signal through to the FireStudio's interface on my MAC Pro.

If that's an impossibility, then can I just use the lightpipe/optic cable conections to feed the sound from the FW410 through the FireStudio and then to my MAC?

Somebody toss me an intelligent bone here please.

Many Thanks!

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dbmasters
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Since: Apr 03, 2002

Feb 07, 2008 09:51 am

Does firewire allow more than one audio device driver active at any one time?

Keith Warren
Mans reach exceeds his grasp
Member
Since: Oct 23, 2007

Feb 07, 2008 12:09 pm

Aren't audio device drivers governed by the OS?

And you can't run a Firewire powered interface off the port of another firewire interface unless they're specifically designed to do so. There's not enough juice in the line to support both, especially if they both have phantom power allocations. You might be able to hook them up side by side on the same firewire bus, but then it's a question of, like deeBs said, drivers, as well as whether or not you can configure your recording software to recognize and use both devices at the same time. I know in Sonar 7 this might be possible if you can get the drivers working for both at the same time, but I'm not sure about any other program.