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hi,

if i am looking to use my scope with my laptop, what are my options?

is magma to express card my best option?

i saw this on ebay - Dell D/Dock docking station, researched a little, but does it work on any laptop, and does anyone have experiance with it and scope?

thanks

The dell d/dock will only work with whatever Dell laptop(s) it was designed for.

Magma is the only option.

I didn't want to pay £600 for a magma cardbus PCI housing to use with my Thinkpad and Pulsar I. So instead I built a micro-ATX motherboard into a low-profile DVD-player style case and I'm accessing the Scope software over rdesktop over a network cable between the laptop and the Pulsar host.

Seems to work - only finished it last night, so there's probably some stuff to iron out. You may not have various PC bits lying around like me though!

Total cost to me was about £100, for the case. Equally you could use a mini-ITX or nano-ITX board in a matching case for £200-£300 as long as the case was deep enough for a full-length PCI card.

wow!

I just picked up a Dell dock recently, haven't had a chance to install my Pulsar 2 though. ($12 on ebay!) I'll post a report once I do. I bet you can find an older Dell laptop for a decent price. MIght be cheaper than going the Magma route.

Bought a HP NW9440 a month ago...

I'll get a magma pci to expresscard adapter for my magma chassis soon.

So, i'll have Scope going thru ExpressCard instead of PCMCIA...


Supposed to be alot faster, i bet i'll never see PCI Capacity limit reach again

so i need to buy the chasis AND a chasisTOpci adapter?

I'll get a magma pci to expresscard adapter for my magma chassis soon.

sbp wrote: Equally you could use a mini-ITX or nano-ITX board in a matching case for £200-£300 as long as the case was deep enough for a full-length PCI card.

Anyone use scope boards on mini/nano-ITK boards? If so.... the big question is...... how do they perform?

My inner and deepest hope is to get Modular free'd from my stationary pc setup.... A nano-ITK board with pci risercard in a 1U casing would be just Great,,,,

My ideas is to use:
Luna II
nano ITX board
small powersupply
SSD harddisk (http://www.supertalent.com/oem/oemSata.php)
2GB ram
Windows-ish os.... (preferably Windows 2003 server...)

If the above is within reach...... I would think of adding dedicated controls to the "box" that would ofcourse be midibox http://www.ucapps.de

If this shoukld be a new thread, feel free to move it moderators..... I would like to get this "project" going, and find a good common hardware sollution that (may) work.....

man, if you go through all that, why not just use a desktop?

[quote]is magma to express card my best option?[/quote

YES ...

garyb wrote:man, if you go through all that, why not just use a desktop?

Hehe.... point taken,,,, but What I am thinking about is some kindof mixture tween klangbox and asb but with Modular

My Scopesystem is now in a 3U rackmound pc..... Its heavy, noisy and no dedicated controls (meaning, not practical to bring-a-long as my noah... I just miss my modular so much when gigging

I have an EPIA 1GHZ micro itx thingy, which gets along even with a Pulsar one - remarkable, as it's a VIA chipset
A 1 unit box, 10" deep, with risercard is on it's way...
(it will probably be 150 Euro including powersupply)

these things are usually powered by highly efficient regulation 'boards' that can be as small as an ATX PSU connector, fed by an external switching PSU as used in notebooks or TFT screens.
I have a 1GB DiskOnChip flash disk with ata connector, which is really good and another ata 'adapter' to carry a compact flash card, which is PIO adressed and obviously not that fast.
At least the dude from the shop told me that recent (quality!) USB sticks are much faster - they use them in OEM boxes for some industrial stuff, which they custom build to boot the OS and load the app.

I want to use the box as a guitar fx unit and recorder, mostly with SpaceF's Echo and will control it with a MIR midicontroller - autoload SFP, startup-project has everything in place, few concerns imho

cheers, Tom

How about a MacBook Pro running Vista with a Magma setup/Scope Pro?

Anybody tried it?