Question concerning USB and Virus Snow

[Prime NL]

I am using my Virus Snow in combination with my "old" Mac G4 running OSX 10.4.
Till now it works perfectly but i am wondering about something.

I know that my Virus is connected to a dedicated USB 1.1 port...would i benefit from the data speed if i expand the computer with a USB 2.0 PCI card.

So..if i upgrade from USB 1.1 to USB 2.0 would i get a faster data transfer rate between my Snow and my Mac.....???

[Monobeat]

Using your Virus with USB 1.1 give you severe limitations. Upgrading to a USB 2.0 card will allow you to...

1. Use your Virus Snow as a soundcard.
2. Use Virus Control and USB Virus Audio routing capabilites
3. Sleep better at night

[marc]

Using your Virus with USB 1.1 give you severe limitations. Upgrading to a USB 2.0 card will allow you to...

1. Use your Virus Snow as a soundcard.
2. Use Virus Control and USB Virus Audio routing capabilites
3. Sleep better at night

you can do all that with a 1.1 compatible card.

marc

[Prime NL]

Lol.... ;)

@ Monobeat....i noticed already that with USB 1.1 the possibility of using my Snow as a Soundcard.
I already use this setup in Ableton with Virus Control and can route it in this sequencer.

My question was if i would profit from the speed increase concerning the data transfer rate....because i expect that it will make no difference as it will use USB 2.0 with a 12 Mb speed rate.

I just want to find out if somebody already has this experience...?? 8)

[Prime NL]

Just wanted to share this info with you peeps as i got an answer from Access about my question :

For the TI Snow this would not make any difference at all, as the unit itself only operates at 12 MBit USB data-speed, not USB 2.0 High-Speed so 480 MBit.

[Monobeat]

USB 1.1 !!!!!!!!!!

I see my archenemy has returned.... I will be meeting USB 1.1 out behind this forum so I can show him what we think of said bandwidth.


:( _ _ _ _ _


Thanks for the info BTW!!!

[Crossfire]

Just wanted to share this info with you peeps as i got an answer from Access about my question :

For the TI Snow this would not make any difference at all, as the unit itself only operates at 12 MBit USB data-speed, not USB 2.0 High-Speed so 480 MBit.

Is this the same for the Desktop?

I was under the impression newer versions of the TI Desktop utilised USB 2?

[teethofgold]

they can utilize USB 2 ports... but they don't go any faster. in my mind they should have just gone firewire and made it completely bad ass...

[Prime NL]

I was thinking exactly the same Teethofgold.

Still can't understand why they opt. for the slower connection...but i think it has something to do about the fact that they want every user to have this option (even me with my slow *ss connection :rolleyes: ).

[teethofgold]

seeing as how they require that the entire USB port is dedicated to the virus, I think they should have utilized the high speed features of USB 2. then they could have done it all in 24 bit...

[Scott Righteous]

What USB1?

The Snow could have more audio channels in Logic if they had used USB2.
It's 4 part multitimbral but only allows 3 separate inputs as a plug-in.
That would be no problem with USB2

Doh!

Firewire would be nice, but still so many PC users don't use it.
Even Apple has given up on it and is moving to USB3.