Looking for a all digital i/o solution to use with a Mac Pro

santo · 16th August 2006

Want to get 32 digital channels into a Mac Pro. Looking for that cost effective solution. Any experience will be appreciated.

Can you do this with Apogee symphony without adding A/D conversion boxes?

Best,
Santo

dkatz42 · 16th August 2006

Not at this point. The symphony is digital i/o on a proprietary connector, and all that you can hook to it (at least right now) are the Apogee converters with X cards.

The converters with "advanced routing" mode can be used for digital I/O (so a DA-16x can do 16 analog out and 16 digital in) but that's not a cost-effective way to get digital.

I'd imagine there ought to be PCIe AES cards coming out soon--they shouldn't be that hard to spin from the PCIx versions.

I've got a big pile of Apogee stuff (Symphony, AD16x, DA16x) waiting for my MacPro, which was last seen on a Fedex truck at 8:15 this morning...

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santo Gear nut Joined: Jul 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 149 Thread Starter	Looking for a all digital i/o solution to use with a Mac Pro Want to get 32 digital channels into a Mac Pro. Looking for that cost effective solution. Any experience will be appreciated. Can you do this with Apogee symphony without adding A/D conversion boxes? Best, Santo __________________ Remember you can't have everything, 'cause where would you put it? Steven Wright

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16th August 2006	#2
dkatz42 Lives for gear Joined: Aug 2004 Location: Santa Fe, NM Posts: 988	Not at this point. The symphony is digital i/o on a proprietary connector, and all that you can hook to it (at least right now) are the Apogee converters with X cards. The converters with "advanced routing" mode can be used for digital I/O (so a DA-16x can do 16 analog out and 16 digital in) but that's not a cost-effective way to get digital. I'd imagine there ought to be PCIe AES cards coming out soon--they shouldn't be that hard to spin from the PCIx versions. I've got a big pile of Apogee stuff (Symphony, AD16x, DA16x) waiting for my MacPro, which was last seen on a Fedex truck at 8:15 this morning...