getting 32 i/0 using 4 ada8000????

[lionheart]

RME Raydat is a great card, with great monitoring software (Totalmix)!!

RME: HDSPe RayDAT

[petrovinksy]

wow. THANK YOU! thats exactly the card i've been searching for. now i have to decide
Motu 2408 mk3 and motu 24i/o
OR... 4X ada8000 w this rme card.

or..... ????

[lionheart]

I went from 24io to the Ada8000 and the Raydat, and i like what i hear;-)

[travisbrown]

Or try the Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe.

This is what I use to get various ADAT lightpipe devices in and out of the DAW. I have used it with four ADA8000s and it works very well for what you are trying to do.

[petrovinksy]

Thanks for all the help.

I'm gonna lean towards the RME card. For the extra 3 hundred I get extra...

• 1 x AES/EBU I/O (192 kHz)
• 1 x SPDIF I/O (192 kHZ)
• 2 x MIDI I/o

plus its PCIe which seems to get more love than firewire round here.

[Karloff70]

Hi chaps....just a thought:

Hijacking this thread shamelessly as I'm considering Alesis HD24XR with some sort of PCI to ADAT in between it and computer.......would anything be fast enough to record straight through, other than apogee symphony(i.e. cheaper...lol)? Raydat? Motu 2408 just for ADAT? Anyone?

[travisbrown]

Originally Posted by Karloff70

Hi chaps....just a thought:

Hijacking this thread shamelessly as I'm considering Alesis HD24XR with some sort of PCI to ADAT in between it and computer.......would anything be fast enough to record straight through, other than apogee symphony(i.e. cheaper...lol)? Raydat? Motu 2408 just for ADAT? Anyone?

Sure. I do this all the time. I first used three MOTU 828MKIIs, and now a Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe. There were a couple unsuccessful attempts to use an M-Audio Profire Lightpipe in there too.

Given that you can get 2408s pretty cheap, that would work just fine.

[Karloff70]

Originally Posted by travisbrown

Sure. I do this all the time. I first used three MOTU 828MKIIs, and now a Presonus Firestudio Lightpipe. There were a couple unsuccessful attempts to use an M-Audio Profire Lightpipe in there too.

Given that you can get 2408s pretty cheap, that would work just fine.

So the Firestudio Lightpipe latency is fast enough to route straight through while recording (running in this case on FW400/iMac Core2duo) you say? Very interesting indeed!!!! Thrying to avoid going to a PCI card mac, as I like my iMac, just felt like there wouldn't be a solution fast enough without going PCI.......VERY cool if this is......