all options for adat stuff?

[jeff0633]

Hi

My VF-160CD will be here tomorrow. I am looking to get an adat card for my computer so that I can send 8 tracks at a time to my computer. Can someone list all the options that I have? I can't seem to get a difinitive answer to everything that will work. Will the Wavecenter card work? Terretech? Any others?


How about a list of all the adat converters that wil let me record 16 tracks at once?

I will have a CD burner in it, so should I even mess with spending money on a computer adat card? Will I be able to store 8 or more tracks to a CD for storage, and lso move them to the PC off that cD, or is backing up a project different from sending individual tracks to the CD for putting on the computer. To simplify, Let's say that I have 16 tracks recorded. I want to back them up, and also move them to the PC for editing. Can I use the backup feature, and also use that same CD to get wav files off of and move them to the PC for editing? or, do I have to burn a CD for backup, and then another with straight wav files to move to the PC? Will I have to use two CD's, or can I use one burn and do both? I have a number of CDRW disks that I have never used. Will I be able to use these to move tracks, and then erase them for more moves later?

Sorry for so many questions. One more before I go. I notice the word "program" here a lot. Is "program" the entire song on the VF-160, or does that mean one track?

GOD, I CAN'T WAIT UNTIL TOMORROW!!

Jeff

[Blue Bear Sound]

I use the RME Hammerfall 96/36..... 2 pairs of Lightpipe plus ADAT sync......

Works flawlessly...........!

[PeteHalo]

The Terratec EWS88D works great for me. Previously I had the RME Digi968 PST but as I use my VF16 as AD converter if I want to record directly to computer I thought I need the MIDI more than I need the analog inputs so I replaced the RME card with the cheaper Terratec card.

As I have the VF16 without the CDRW I can't say how handy it would be to use the CDRW method of transferring tracks from VF to computer but I once tried it with a Zip drive and that one time was enough to convince me that the ADAT way is much easier for me. Even when I had 2 Zip drives, one external connected to VF and one internal in my computer the writing to and reading from Zip disk took longer than transferring thru Adat interface in realtime.

[theletterq]

Backing up programs is different than transferring as wav files. When you backup, it saves it in FDSM-3 (or something like that) format, which is the Fostex OS format. For backup, you can only use one CD per program whether it is full or not. You can use CD-RW disks and erase them later. A "program" is considered a "song" if you will. Good luck...the manual will do a pretty good job of explaining the whole transfer/backup thing.