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17th February 2012
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| Gear interested Joined: Jun 2011 Location: sofia
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Thread Starter | DiGiCo UB MADI
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18th February 2012
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Jun 2008 Location: Japan
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Not as cheap as it looks though... 750 UK pounds! | |
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20th February 2012
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| Gear nut Joined: Feb 2006 Location: Sydney, AU
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This looks very promising. Fingers crossed.
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20th February 2012
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| Lives for gear  Joined: Apr 2005 Location: amsterdam
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Nice! Too bad it's only 48 channels though..
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20th February 2012
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Having owned many pieces, I can never understand why gear with a MADI port is so bloody expensive. the actual interfacing is little more that 2 or 3 chips on a tiny circuit board and MADI tech is actually VERY old - anybody got a answer
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25th February 2012
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Economies of scale? Or 'prices of madi are high but people buy anyway so let's keep them high'? Just speculating...
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28th February 2012
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MADI is still a relatively supercheap technology. Compare MADI to 64 channels of AES in/out for example, or look at the price of the RME and SSL MADI cards. |
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10th March 2012
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| Gear interested Joined: Mar 2012
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| Why is it expensive
Probably because it has an inbuilt dual core processor running off low current 5v USB, running it's own system clock and FPGA processing, it's not just a cable adaptor
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10th March 2012
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| Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2008 Location: Japan
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Never knew the technology needed so bloody much! What did they do on those old PCI madi cards before they had anything approaching dual core technology? | |
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15th March 2012
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| Gear addict  Joined: Jul 2005 Location: miami, fl
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i was all excited about this box - been trying to get multichannel MADI into a laptop inexpensively. however then i heard the cost would be around $1300 US. i guess DiGiCo has weighed the convenience of hooking up MADI to nearly any laptop in the world and making it work, and priced it accordingly. before learning the cost, i would have guessed it to be around $500, nearer to the SSL Opti Coax adapter. i'll stick with my Mytek 8x192 to get into my laptop from analog or MADI via the firewire card. i believe it maxes out at 8 channels (until the promised firmware upgrade - then 16) but that's at least helpful for backup purposes. cheers, -c
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