Back in those cold December days when I bought me a macbook I thought to myself: What a wonderful day. Then it struck me, as by lightning, that to get enough money to buy a fire-wire audio interface that would fit my Macbook, I would have to let my Multiface go. But I couldn’t. Because it would be stupid to get rid of such a good audio card when it would be a perfect adat break out box for another card. So I kept it, tried the audio inputs on the Macbook and it worked. Not pristine, but it worked.
Yesterday I thought to myself: This is a great day for some optical SPDIF. Clas Ohlson had the toslink to jack cables, my Macbook has its optical in- and outputs and the Multiface has SPDIF on coax but also (selectable) on its ADAT-in and out. Perfect. The internal routing on the Multiface is a beauty. From my Ecstacy to the Multiface and then out on SPDIF (optical) to the Macbook and back again.
As if this wasn’t enough, the Multiface is still connected to my Windows horse running the great Samplitude. Two computers – one audio card. Sounds good to me. Now I have my guitar software running on the Macbook and Samplitude on the Windozer and the Multiface handles both of them.
As if this wasn’t enough the Multiface can be disconnected from the PC-Card and ramble on in standalone mode. No need for a cardbus to use its ins and outs, just for setting them up each time the Multiface has been unpowered. Tedious.
EDIT: I was a bit to happy about this the other day when I thought that the Multiface remembered its settings…. No internal memory. It would have been a very nice feature if it could rememeber it self. And I mean, come on, home much memory would you need for something like that? It’s probably just a register setting anyway.
Cheers