Need help IDing this card.

[crazyben]

I bought power Mac g4 with this card installed. Looking Altera flex card gave me multiple results but not this exact one.

 

[Phipli]

It's a DigiDesign Digi 001 card. Came with an external box. It is a sound card / interface. Useless without the external box, but they're available on eBay. The cables on the otherhand are hell to find.

 

[Phipli]

Review :

Digidesign Digi 001

Digidesign have forged a formidable reputation in the pro arena for their Pro Tools digital audio workstations. With the new Digi 001 system, they're hoping to capture a substantial slice of the project-studio market too. Debbie Poyser and Derek Johnson provide an exclusive hands on review.

www.soundonsound.com

 

[Phipli]

And a cringe worthy introduction video :

 

[crazyben]

Got it. I did find the card on eBay for $40. Not a rare card it seems.

 

[joshc]

It's the sort of card that you would find in a lot of G4s, as many G4s were used as part of a sound production setup. Not rare really.

 

[crazyben]

Got it. I bought the g4 for this card. I paid $50 and the power mac works.

 

[Phipli]

This is my box. Looking for the cable ATM.

 

[crazyben]

This cable?

Digidesign Digi 001 - with original manuals, software, cable | eBay

<p>This Digidesign Digi 001 comes with two manuals, three software discs and one digital audio cable. Everything is clean and in good condition and working order. I have colored it out in the images but one of the ProTools discs has an activation code for macOS and Windows XP.</p><p>Please...

www.ebay.com

 

[Phipli]

This cable?

Digidesign Digi 001 - with original manuals, software, cable | eBay

<p>This Digidesign Digi 001 comes with two manuals, three software discs and one digital audio cable. Everything is clean and in good condition and working order. I have colored it out in the images but one of the ProTools discs has an activation code for macOS and Windows XP.</p><p>Please...

www.ebay.com

No, the 50 pin one. That's just a digital optical cable.

 

[crazyben]

Turns out I have this card sitting on my Macintosh ii. Must be a predecessor to the above card.

 

[Phipli]

Turns out I have this card sitting on my Macintosh ii. Must be a predecessor to the above card.

Yeah, sort of. Works with Sound Designer I believe. Does it have any other cards with it?

@ppuskari is your man for what they do.

 

[crazyben]

This monochrome video card and Daynaport E/11 Ethernet card.

 

[ppuskari]

Yeah, that is an early Sound Accelerator II card by Digidesign. Meant to work with Yes the early Sound Designer and Sound Tools applications that utilize the DB25 1/2 rack interfaces they had at the time. There is an Analog interface and a Digital Interface as well that can be daisychained together. I believe this is stereo in/out only via those interfaces. IF you have a Grey Matter Response (SysAXE) scsi card then you can add up to 4 4 channel cards if you also hook them up via the TDM cabling. Lot's of weird options back in that era.