InfiniteMac OSx86 - View Single Post - E-MU 1820 Soundcard on Hackintosh

naquaada · 04-13-2009, 08:12 PM

I'm from Germany, you can read it at the top right in every post. You also could add your country in the settings, also add your system specs in your signature. It's useful if everyone could see what hardware you are using if there are some problems. But I searched a bit and your board seems to be fully supported, also the Radeon HD3870X2. If it works so good as my HD2600XT then you'll also have Dual-Monitor and TV-Out support.

My first audio interface was a RME Hammerfall 9636 which had no support for Intel-Macs, so I sold it for about 150 Euro on ebay. You'll still get a lot of money for professional audio hardware. So if you want to sell one or mode of your cards you'll get the money for a new one for sure. What you're buying for a audio interface depends on the feature you need and the hardware you have. The ProFire 610 and the Saffire Pro 40 are interfaces which are working directly, you need no external converter, but you have less channels. The ProFire Lightbridge allows 36 channels which should be enough for everything. But it needs external ADAT converters which produce extra costs. I'm using a Creamware A16 which provides 16 channels (up to 48 kHz) on only 1 HE, the A16plus also allows 8 channels up to 96 kHz. I must admit, I never haeard about from the company Focusrite. I've chosen M-Audio because it is the only way to use ProTools - A real Protools system using Digidesign hardware is a tiny little bit more expensive

Surround mustn't be supported specially by the interface when you're not using constumer stuff. But if you have an audio interface with at least 8 analog channels you can route the outputs to a 7.1 surround formation. The conversion to Surround or AC3 format is only done by software. But if you're working with movie scoring and you want to create DVDs later you maybe pay a little more for your audio interfaces because DVDs should use 96 or 192 kHz. I have no experience in surround, my ALC850 onboard audio also allows a setup of 6 channels (5.1) but I never tested it.

If you work with film stuff, take a look at Final Cut and Soundtrack Pro which is included in the Final Cut package (50 GB size). Logic needs about 80 GB, so a big harddisk is useful. A harddisk I can recommend is the Samsung HD103UJ - 1 TB size. It's amazing fast, absolutely quiet and cool, max temperature 37°C. You can touch and carry these things after hours of running. Costs: about 70-80 Euro in Germany.