FireWire Solo

[Clinton Morse]

verymeta wrote:
> I'm replying to my own post:
>
> It works!!
>
> And wow, the sound quality with the Firewire Solo is so much better than 
> when I was using an onboard soundcard!!
>
> -Katie
>
>   
Slightly off topic.  I've been looking at the simple Firewire and USB 
audio interfaces but am curious if anyone knows of any that, instead of 
being a half-rack space sized standalone unit, are a 5.25" drive bay 
sized unit that could be interfaced directly from motherboard headers.  
I'm looking primarily at getting a 1/4" headphone out (with control) on 
the front of the PC as well as a mic input and a guitar input.  I've 
done a bit of searching online and it doesn't seem like that sort of 
unit is out there.  Is there an obvious reason why that I'm not seeing?  
I've even considered gutting one of these units and mounting the circuit 
board and jacks/pots into a drive bay. 

Thanks for any insight... Clint...