My DAW PC build has high speed USB 2 ports that can handle I believe 4X normal powering capabilities. Have a couple USB 3 as well. I made a newbie mistake in not getting an TI Chipset Firewire 400 and it is a VIA 6308. Everything else about the build is right on and I wrongly assumed that something like Firewire would be "standardized" like the Universal Serial Bus/USB is and I did not want to take the chance and expense of FW interface if it was going to give me issues simply because it's not TI Chipset. Yes, I KNOW I can buy a separate FW card and have plenty of expansion space to do so but since USB 2.0 audio interfaces have come a long way and most probably will not get a Virus Ti anytime soon, and to be honest if and when I do, will wait to see what Access releases next and hopefully utilizing full bandwidth before I go down that road.
If anything, since I have a lot of great hardware synths, it would be something along lines of a standalone/vst such as Izotope Iris; intense sampling and mangling of field recordings coupled with the hardware currently have, not really foreseeing myself growing tired of options. Both of my 1 TB 7200rpm 64mb cache drives are internal and will use my eSATA port to back up to external third 2 TB drive. Plan on putting visual art experience in learning some non-linear video editing as well to go with sonic creations.
Perhaps an expensive hobby to another's perspective but hell, what I have done in a military career to finally be retired and disabled from it with nice pension...screw them! HA!
(I think someone paying $600. to Apple for a cell phone is crazy
, let alone same person would probably buy a piece of my cat's crap if it had an Apple logo on it...
)
Love to learn, love music, creativity, fast cars, writing my book...still, and am not abusing small animals nor myself with substances...and lastly, getting back into music has been very therapeutic for military induced PTSD(for real).
I do hear you on the FW thing though and manned-up to my newbie screw-up.
JUST WHY is a TI Chipset better when that nexus is going to same place on the motherboard any other FW would? Inquiring mind would like to know.