[AlienHealth]

Hi All,

Thanks for the comments - here's a reply to cover a few of them:

Interfacing to Pro Tools: I have hooked up to a ZED-R16 to Pro Tools MPowered through an M-Audio ProFire Lightbridge which was easy to get audio and MMC working (I sync'd the ProFire from an ADAT source from the ZED so that the ZED could remain clock master). I can't see an easy way to use the MIDI controls on ZED-R16 with Pro Tools though because PT requires specific MIDI messages and cannot learn the message type from ZED, and we can't change the message type from the front panel.

Androne, yes you can get more channels on one FireWire bus - in fact ZED-R16 has 2 FW ports so you can daisy chain 2 mixers together on the bus to get a total of 52 audio channels to & from the computer. (each ZED-R would send & return 16 mono channels, stereo mix 17-18, plus 8 ADAT channels).

A larger mixer is certainly on the cards (if not on the drawing board!) We need to look at how to get the motor faders designed in - maybe as a model option, as they would add a fair bit to the selling price.

F5D: Point taken regarding the connector position. Also, maybe another studio oriented mixer, but with live capablity might be a good idea, or else a GL with a multi-channel converter unit.

Sirthought: You're right to be curious about fast USB! They have been conspicuously absent! There are some USB2.0 streaming devices available now (recently really), but we chose FireWire & ADAT for ZED-R16 as at the time they offered the best & most reliable performance. I'm not 100% but I think it's quite tricky to produce drivers for streaming audio using USB2 +.

I better get on with the biggun!

Cheers,
Mike.