X-Series FireWire Expansion Card Connects Rosetta 800 to Your Computer

Apogee Electronics has introduced the X-Series FireWire expansion card at AES. The X-FireWire card enables a direct connection between Apogee's Rosetta 800 and any FireWire equipped computer. Based on new S800 standards, the X-FireWire Card uses an expansion slot in the Rosetta 800, and in all future, X-Series based systems to give users of Logic, Nuendo and other popular software the option of Apogee conversion. The two ports on the Apogee X-FireWire Card facilitate the daisy-chaining of additional devices to give users great expansion options for their DAW's.

X-FireWire card at a glance:

• 2 S800 FireWire connectors, allowing convenient chaining of multiple units
• A standard off-the shelf adapter cable allows connection to S400 FireWire ports.
• Compatible with Apple's OS X built-in FireWire Core Audio driver
• Supplied with Windows XP WDM/ASIO driver
• Up to 16x16 24-bit channels at 44.1/48/88.2/96KHz
• Up to 16 24-bit channels at 176.4/192KHz
• Fully compliant and compatible with 61883-6 and other relevant 1394 IEEE and AES specifications
• Allows low-jitter synchronization to a FireWire audio network and can provide a master clock source for a FireWire audio network

Availability: April '04 MSRP: $595

For more information, visit their web site at www.apogeedigital.com.