Author Topic: vxpocke help (Read 5977 times)

bl6216@yahoo.com · « **on:** August 02, 2004, 11:14:19 PM »

I am looking to by a vxpocke and I want to know if you have to do any body modes to a mac Powerbook G4. I saw a sony laptop at the dead show and the guy had to cut the body of his laptop so it could fit in the notebook. My frind has one and he did not have to do any thing to is notebook but the card went right in the side of his notebook. If any one has one and can tell me what I would need to do to my notebook if i got one.

caymanreview · « **Reply #1 on:** August 02, 2004, 11:41:31 PM »

a vx pocket slides right into a pcmcia slot,a nd is the same exact size as the slot, i cant see where it would even be possible for it not fit in ANY laptop

fwiw ive had 2 different sony laptops and both took a vx pocket no problem, and saw daves (schoepst00bes) new vaio laptop at alpine and he ran a vx pocket no problem

bl6216@yahoo.com · « **Reply #2 on:** August 03, 2004, 02:23:36 AM »

hey caymanreview even in a apple. the sony that i saw was a not a full size one it about 1/2 the size as the 15in ones.

caymanreview · « **Reply #3 on:** August 03, 2004, 02:44:18 AM »

i ran the vaio picturebook (really small lappy) and it had a regular pcmcia slot... i had no idea they had different sized slots. ive never seen anything that would be compatible with a smaller sized pcmcia slot like that...

hzgone · « **Reply #4 on:** August 03, 2004, 01:02:20 PM »

I don't see why you would have to hack away at any laptop to make a vxpocket work. A pcmcia slot fits a pcmcia card, simple as that. I have 4 laptops sitting in front of me all diffrent and can put a vxpocket in any of them no problem.

bl6216@yahoo.com · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2004, 01:45:47 PM »

thanks for all youe help

caymanreview · « **Reply #6 on:** August 03, 2004, 04:09:47 PM »

im not sure it was help.... but your welcome

i got another small sony comp today and it has the regular pcmcia slot also

hzgone · « **Reply #7 on:** August 03, 2004, 04:23:56 PM »

dustin what are you running now

mirth · « **Reply #8 on:** August 03, 2004, 05:12:28 PM »

Maybe he saw the mod that involves hacking the case to secure the dongle from being bumped?

fasteddy · « **Reply #9 on:** August 03, 2004, 09:32:42 PM »

are these vx pockets stil avaiable new, or there only used ones floating around?

bl6216@yahoo.com · « **Reply #10 on:** August 03, 2004, 10:04:06 PM »

you can still get them new on B&H web page.

caymanreview · « **Reply #11 on:** August 03, 2004, 11:00:45 PM »

check ebay, there have been alot of vx pockets and vx pocket 440s on there for cheap lately

kindms · « **Reply #12 on:** August 04, 2004, 01:40:02 PM »

Just got the 440 offf ebay for 115.95 brand new the guy had a lot of them. It showed upo yesterday and it was factoiry sealed brand new. Works like a charm

caymanreview · « **Reply #13 on:** August 04, 2004, 04:31:58 PM »

Quote from: hzgone on August 03, 2004, 04:23:56 PM

dustin what are you running now

Sony PCG-SRX87

dklein · « **Reply #14 on:** August 04, 2004, 05:30:15 PM »

Quote from: kindms on August 04, 2004, 01:40:02 PM

Just got the 440 offf ebay for 115.95 brand new the guy had a lot of them. It showed upo yesterday and it was factoiry sealed brand new. Works like a charm

Did you test any 4 track? They're really cheap!

Dr.FOB · « **Reply #15 on:** August 04, 2004, 08:48:39 PM »

I got my new VX Pocket 440, new in the box as well.
Man, what a dongle that thing has. Too bad they didn't provision for 2xSPDIF as well as 2xStereo Analog inputs. The Web site indicates that a new driver release may allow for simultaneous use of the SPDIF and the second Analog inputs. Great for feeding from the V3 and the SBD and the same time...
I pulled the updated WAV drivers for WinDoze from the Digigram site. I'll work on getting the ALSA drivers installed after Coventry.

Vaio PCG-1C1N (U3) with VX Pocket 440 on HP laptop.

caymanreview · « **Reply #16 on:** August 04, 2004, 11:06:49 PM »

when i had one, it had a mod'd dongle that just had digi in/out

you might pm ianstone about one, but it took like 2-3 months for whoever built them to get the parts and make them

Dr.Fob, that lappy is sweet!

bl6216@yahoo.com · « **Reply #17 on:** August 05, 2004, 03:02:37 AM »

I just got one on ebay last night i want to know howit works with a powerbook G4. i see that you all are runing a sony laptop. Will be as good for the mac as the pc.

kindms · « **Reply #18 on:** August 05, 2004, 07:04:54 PM »

That U3 is sure sweet. I had been looking at them fo r a while. I just don't have the disposable income I need to feed my gear slutiness

I keep buying syuff and having to hide it from the other half or say I "borrowed" it. LOL

caymanreview · « **Reply #19 on:** August 05, 2004, 07:32:48 PM »

i dont think i could deal with the U3's size... i couldnt stand the picturebook, and went with the size just above it...

Tyler McGhee · « **Reply #20 on:** August 06, 2004, 12:06:54 PM »

Quote from: Dr.FOB on August 04, 2004, 08:48:39 PM

I got my new VX Pocket 440, new in the box as well.
Man, what a dongle that thing has. Too bad they didn't provision for 2xSPDIF as well as 2xStereo Analog inputs. The Web site indicates that a new driver release may allow for simultaneous use of the SPDIF and the second Analog inputs. Great for feeding from the V3 and the SBD and the same time...

so as of now, if you wanna run 4 channels you have to run all 4 analog in? do you have a link to that
page with the driver info? I run an AD-20 from my mics and go spdif from my pre into the vxpocket.
i was just looking at those 440's on ebay ($115!!!) and would love to be able to do a matrix
at any club i'm at. is it not possible not to run spdif on the first two channels and analog in
to the other two?

thanks!