Creative X Fi drive bay front panel thing...

[buffbiff21]

To anyone who owns and uses this thing, how does it hook up to the system?

im thinkin about buying either this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102190

or this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16829102189

I plan on using the front panel for guitar recording. (not directly plugged in, i have a SM57 sittin in front of my amp)
If anyone owns one of these, could you let me know how it hooks up? (i.e. ide, usb, sata, firewire, through the x fi card...)

thanks

 

[HSE]

The I/O drive conects to the X-Fi card with a ribbon cable (similar to an IDE one) from the AD_LINK header in the back of the card.

 

[pfunkman]

The I/O drive conects to the X-Fi card with a ribbon cable (similar to an IDE one) from the AD_LINK header in the back of the card.

Dont forget it has to be powered. It has the same connector as a floppy drive.

 

[Ahriman4891]

For music creation, you need a soundcard with low-latency inputs. So far I only saw this thread regarding the latency issue with x-fi cards. It could be just a driver issue, or it could be inherent to x-fi hardware. I would suggest you look into this carefully before buying.

 

[buffbiff21]

For music creation, you need a soundcard with low-latency inputs. So far I only saw this thread regarding the latency issue with x-fi cards. It could be just a driver issue, or it could be inherent to x-fi hardware. I would suggest you look into this carefully before buying.

Thanks for the heads up!

However I highly doubt this will be an issue. Even though I have an awesome surroud setup, my 280 Marshall speaker cab takes the cake. I dont plan on using my 5.1 speakers for guitar, hence the SM57 in front of the amp. I HOPE
l dont have to worry about it....

 

[Ahriman4891]

So you do the listening part through your amp, and just run an input cable to the x-fi? Should not be a problem then.