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Phonic Firefly 302

FireWire audio interface from Phonic belonging to the Firefly series

Creat1 Creat1
Published on 05/06/08 at 09:12
So for the price (125 € chez Thomann)
This is a good card.

2 in (Mono) and 2 out (Mono Audio (with either
RCA Jack or large which is quite comfortable)
more in / out SPIDF,
XLR Mic input with preamp and phantom power supply (not tested)
big stereo output jack (headphones)
and in / out noon.

The case is metal which is quite comfortable
especially on the road,
the map rather inspires confidence in its robustness
(Certainly more than the cards in boxes plasticky

We can adjust the gain of the microphone,
the gain of the two separate audio inputs,
and the volume of the stereo headphones.
(The sound that comes out of two Audio Out)

one firewire 4 (small, on most laptop)
and 6 firewire and power supply provided (transformer)

attention on the other hand, I bought it because it is self powered
via firewire, has provided you use a 6 pin firewire (large)!
or on laptops is often 4 (small connectors)
and you must know that the difference between the two is that there is or
non-food .. So with my laptop I have to use the power supply industry!

more small firewire connection is really small and therefore
fragile, and disconnects without facilemment expression ..

Well so much for the little worries
if not install, operate without any problem!
Super simple, works very well,
low latency using ASIO,
quite suitable for playing MIDI sync
with machinne (RS7000 on my part)
(As against the WDM driver is dodgy at latency)
You can set the buffer size from a small
control panel which is nothing else for that matter,
(Ah, if a see if the card is detected
hotplug in XP, the card is a bit of time Defois
to be recognized, but if it is on and connected
ca at startup is no problem.

I advise so if you have a 6 pin firewire connection
(About the size of a USB but not quite the same form)
because you can enjoy self-nourishment

For if you aves against a small 4-pin connection,
then I suggest you look more towards USB
(To take advantage of self feeding, and because
FW is too small fragile.

UTILIZATION

Easy!

GETTING STARTED

Ok
* No noise (well, quiet for that price;)
(When I gallery with my previous
a USB card because of the noise generated by the transformer of the laptop)
* Low latency ASIO drivers (tested with Live and Reason in sync noon with a RS7000)

OVERALL OPINION

Quality / price ratio: very good!

just this little critique on the firewire,
But that is not specific to this map
(Which also has the extreme kind enough to offer
both types of connections!)
but the laptop with firewire 4-pin connectors (without PSU)