Explanation of AD/DA converters?

SpeedKing9 · 8th March 2005

I'm still new to this world, so I would appreciate someone explaining something to me. Complete hypothetical situation, for all intents and purposes, does an Apogee Rosetta 200 have the same functionality as say a PCI audio interface card, such as a Lynx 2, Gina, M-Audio Delta, etc.......

In other words, could I use an Apogee Rosetta 200 AS the audio interface card, or does an audio interface card have more functionality than just a stand alone AD/DA converter?

Recording David · 8th March 2005

An audio interface gets sound in and out of a computer (as well as performing low-end AD/DA). A dedicated AD/DA just converts a signal. You would need an interface to get your AD converted signal into a computer. To hear it on (analog) monitors you would then need DA conversion (if you were using dedicated conversion).

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SpeedKing9 Gear nut Joined: Dec 2004 Location: California Posts: 76 Thread Starter	Explanation of AD/DA converters? I'm still new to this world, so I would appreciate someone explaining something to me. Complete hypothetical situation, for all intents and purposes, does an Apogee Rosetta 200 have the same functionality as say a PCI audio interface card, such as a Lynx 2, Gina, M-Audio Delta, etc....... In other words, could I use an Apogee Rosetta 200 AS the audio interface card, or does an audio interface card have more functionality than just a stand alone AD/DA converter?

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Recording David Lives for gear Joined: Feb 2005 Location: UK Posts: 946	An audio interface gets sound in and out of a computer (as well as performing low-end AD/DA). A dedicated AD/DA just converts a signal. You would need an interface to get your AD converted signal into a computer. To hear it on (analog) monitors you would then need DA conversion (if you were using dedicated conversion).