Where are all the thunderbolt soundcards?

[No Left Turn]

Hahaha damn it. djproben replied with the same thing. Sorry for the double-post!

[JesC]

if any music company puts out a TB soundcard im sure they will skip CES and show it at NAMM in three weeks. Ill keep an eye out for them.

[sobi]

Yeah, that is true, but it also doesn't make any sense for a business, Focusrite for example, to say, "You know what, our customers aren't really using their Thunderbolt ports for anything, let's make interfaces that free up their USB ports." The easy solution here would be to use a TB->FW cable with a FW interface. That uses up a TB port and doesn't take up a USB port. What would be really awesome is a Thunderbolt USB hub. With all the bandwidth that TB provides, having 4 USB devices running through that one port would probably be a lot more stable/reliable than going through a single USB port.

That's the point I was making.

[lethal_pizzle]

I think the OP hits a valid point though, which your reply somewhat misses.

I was addressing directly the point I quoted.

why are we not seeing any external portable thunderbolt sound cards? I was hoping ... that Apogee would ... replace the Duet2.

As regards the solution to having not enough USB ports and too many Thunderbolt ports - an adapter of some kind would seem to be in order, sure!

[DJ Asdrn]

Slowly but surely, Thunderbolt devices are on the way. Like the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock, way better than just a simple Thunderbolt adapter.

[djproben]

Slowly but surely, Thunderbolt devices are on the way. Like the Belkin Thunderbolt Express Dock, way better than just a simple Thunderbolt adapter.

You mean the $450 vaporware? It would be great to actually see this thing finally arrive (I think it was first promised in 2011) but I can get a USB hub for $7. Thunderbolt is never going to be that cheap but for two of these hubs I can buy that apple monitor with a built in TB hub.

[DJ Asdrn]

You mean the $450 vaporware? It would be great to actually see this thing finally arrive (I think it was first promised in 2011) but I can get a USB hub for $7. Thunderbolt is never going to be that cheap but for two of these hubs I can buy that apple monitor with a built in TB hub.

Wow, I had no idea that a new, improved product would cost more than an old product.

[fullenglishpint]

Wow, I had no idea that a new, improved product would cost more than an old product.

ease up on the sarcasm. The difference between $7 and $450 is a factor of 64 for goodness' sake, more than your average upgrade price.

[DJ Asdrn]

My bad