2 Layla 24's, 1 PCMCIA card, can it be done???

[emilime75]

Here's my question, hopefully someone has the answer. I have a LAYLA 24 with both the PCI and laptop cards. I was thinking about purchasing an additional adat convertor to be able to record 16 tracks at once, primarily for recording my band's live shows to a laptop. Since the Layla EXP is impossible to find, can I use a second LAYLA 24's breakout box as an adat convertor only. Meaning, if I use the second break out box's adat out, and go into the adat in on my primary LAYLA, will that work? My goal is to use 2 LAYLA breakout boxes, and only one laptop cardbus slot/interface. I know there are several brands of adat convertors out there, but I'd like to keep it LAYLA. Please reply with whatever info you have on this matter. Thanks.

 

[BRDTS]

Won't work. The second Layla's adat i/o isn't active unless the entire box is hooked up to the/a pc via the layla's data connector on the back of the breakout box.

As far as expansion, you don't need that limited-time expander that Echo made ....

We have 3 layla 24's and 2 Layla 3gs roaming around here. As far as analog i/o, several of them are expanded simply by plugging an Alesis ai-3 into any layla adat port. Instant 8 additional 24-bit analog connections besides the laylas' built in 8.

One pc here has three Layla pci cards installed. Sometimes we have 3 Laylas hooked to that pc AND 3 Alesis ai-3.s......which gives 48 balanced or unbalanced analog i/o points from the one pc to the consoles. Works great.

 

[emilime75]

Thanks BRDTS. I know about the Alesis, I guess that is my best option to expand the Layla 24.