Hi, Tommy,

I have heard of external enclosures for expansion cards and this is 
perhaps the most interesting thing I quickly found.

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/1akcfu/thunderboltusb_30_to_external_pci_enclosure_is/

I'm Windows (10 now, 7 then) based and in 2011, I bought a computer 
because it was cheaper to buy a new computer with two PCI slots than to 
buy the RME PCIe adapter cards for the Multiface II (of which I have 
two). It is my multitrack ingest PC and I use it still today, though the 
new studio machine can use its new RME Fireface UFX II coupled with the 
older Fireface UFX for 16 tracks as well.

Cheers,

Richard




On 2018-04-04 5:30 AM, Tommy Sjöberg wrote:
> Thanks Lou, Adrian, Corey & Steve,
> both for replies to my query, and encouragement to stay with Mac:-)
> 
> iZotope RX can apparently read those markers, so perhaps using SoundForge for recording, with RX plugins might be a way out.
> What I failed to mention in my initial query was that my MacPro (1,1) is hard to upgrade for a non-expert, and I wanted to use our existing AD-16X/MiniDAC setup from Apogee, minus its PCi card, in a new setting.
> Since the demise of the old MacPro in 2012/13, there hasn’t really been any realistic alternative - except going the PC way - unless there’s a way to connect the converters to a modern Mac, using Thunderbolt or USB instead of the PCi card.
> 
> Best,
> Tommy
> 
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