Hi all
So I am resurrecting old gear in order to take advantage of cost savings and frankly just to have fun. I have quite a setup with my G4 and my collection of old hardware samplers. Now I have an issue with my Powerbook.
I have a Wallstreet that has been upgraded with a Sonnet G4 to 500mhz with max ram of 500mb. It is running OS 9.2.2 smoothly. It does not have USB, only SCSI, ADB, Serial, and 2 PCMCIA slots. I want to set this little guy up as portable softsynth, possibly some light DAW work, and work with my samplers.
I can find plenty of OMS MIDI devices that work with the Serial port. So that is checked off. I have an older Opcode that works great. I have the appropriate SCSI adapter and have successfully set up MESA for Mac for my Akai s2000. So that is also checked off.
Now we come to an audio input/output device. I have checked the list of supported devices and naturally they are USB. Can I use a PCMCIA USB card and run some of these devices? Can I use something like the Oxygen 8 or the U122 since they have external power supplies for the devices? Would a bus powered simple Edirol UA work as well? How will the latency be? Are there any other solutions for input and output of audio on this series of Powerbooks?
Thanks for the help