| Thank you, Jason. I appreciate the help and the explanations.
The thing is, I am forced to worry about it because my slave 828 keeps losing sync with the master. Audio goes silent (on/through that unit) and there are often glitches, too.
When I was testing the Isotrope yesterday (with nice big buffers and latency) the slave's clock rate indicator started blinking even though I wasn't stressing the system at all. It was just idling.
This never happens to the master.
That's why I was hoping for a direct link to the slave.
Granted, there's more to all of this than word clock and if the slave isn't talking to the master, having a direct word clock input is not going to solve anything.
I performed two sets of tests. First was a single saxophone track. The other was to play a sample project on one system and route 1/4 cables to the system with the Isotrope.
I thought the Isotropoed sax track sounded cleaner than the 828 Internal clock'd version, but it was a later take and the performance could be clouding things more than I can compensate for.
On the Identical Playback test, I could NOT hear any difference. Even after chopping up the two and having the playback of one follow the other seamlessly.
The interesting thing though, is that I COULD see a difference when I zoomed in.
Also, when I performed the tests yet again (so I have two versions of Internal and two versions of Word Clock) I could tell to what extent the tracks lined up.
The Internal tracks wandered and I could not ever get them to nullify.
The Word Clocked tracks could be nudged such that they nullified, but it was not the same amount for the entire duration.
Granted, the playback system could (probablyly) is not providing exact timing.
Steven |