I have a feeling its mostly due to some audio and video hardware that has some real longevity. I’ve got a VHS+minidv player that I am transferring old videos from using FireWire (well, for the minidv. VHS is s-video capture).
I’m just passing a FireWire PCI card through to a VM though. Though with how old the box is, it doesnt really need to be a VM. Thats a whole different discussion though.
I had some FireWire audio interfaces too, 8ch and 16ch, but I got rid of those a while back. I’m sure someone’s making use of it though! Probably the m-audio delta 1010 I sold too, I think they are still going for a few hundred each despite being so long in the tooth.
tal@olio.cafe 17 hours ago
Yeah, that’s a thought…though honestly, unless whatever someone is doing requires real-time processing and adding latency is a problem, they can probably pass it through some other old device that can speak both Firewire and something else.
That doesn’t have a Firewire interface, does it? I thought I had one of those.
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Oh, I’m thinking of the 1010LT, not the 1010. That lives on a PCI card.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 17 hours ago
No I’m talking about the PCI card, just commenting on the longevity of some devices. I know two people still using FireWire for their interfaces in spare kit (RME fire faces), which got me thinking of some of my old kit I’ve replaced like the delta1010.
These days I’m mostly pushing dante around
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
Yup, that’s what I’m doing… an rme fireface. Incredible device, but uses fw. And since Microsoft is a bunch of aholes, I have to figure out how best to go forwards post windows 10. Except since I’m poor it’s my main interface that I’ve upgraded to.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 3 hours ago
Linux is a good way forward if you want to try it and keep the fireface. Ubuntu is not my favorite base, but Ubuntu Studio (I’d suggest the LTS if you don’t need the latest and greatest all the time) is nicely set up, but I’d make one change from their preinstalled and I’d use Reaper over Ardour, but thats me.
Your biggest headache will be plugins if you’ve got a ton of vst’s, not all will work on linux.
tal@olio.cafe 16 hours ago
Ah, gotcha. Just for the record — though it doesn’t really matter as regards your point, because I was incorrectly assuming that you were using it as an example of with something with Firewire onboard — there are apparently two different products:
The 1010 has a PCI card, but it talks to an external box:
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The 1010LT has a PCI card alone, no external box, and then a ton of cables that fan out directly from the card:
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Neither appears to have a Firewire interface. IIRC, the 1010LT was less expensive, was the one I was using.
curbstickle@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
PCI + BoB is what I had
I still have my FireWire card as I mentioned, but its only for that VHS + minidv deck (well and my old canon camcorder which does better with some of my minidvs. This process is going to take me years, I have so many to get through….)