adat to pc and back again...

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hey folks,

i've been asked to track some bass for an adat based studio. i currently only have a daw. the studio wants to supply me with an adat machine and some redux adat tapes to track on. the sticking point is this studio uses the lx series adats. which unlike the old blackface adats, only has rca and fiber optic i/o's. what this really means is that the only way to use a pro +4 level and/or balanced signal, you have to use the digital fiber optic i/o's. the studio insists on at least a +4 level. is there a way i can use my daw (gadget labs 8/24, samplitude, celeron, etc, etc) with the adat lx? i know that alesis makes a pci card to do this, but i have no slots left in my cheap powerspec pc. does anyone know of a usb device with fiberoptic i/o's? is all this doable with my setup. if i can work this out, it would mean some fun and decent paying work out of my home. thanks for the help!

tony
 
hey dragon, thanks for the rescue! tho' i'm still treading water :-) i checked out the page, cool card! but how would i use a pcmcia in a desktop pc? do they make some type of adapter to use with usb or ???. also, i see the s/pdif output, but no fiber optic. is there some converter for this somewhere? so i guess with this card i would have to take the analog out of the adat lx into the analog in of the card. record all my tracks on the pc, and dump them onto the adat via the card's s/pdif and into the fiberoptic of the adat. right? sounds cool, but i'm unsure of the q's above. still looks likes a very cool card and at a reasonable price. have you heard/used it?

thanks again,

tony

[This message has been edited by tony moore (edited 09-02-1999).]
 
Duh, sorry, I was reading in hyper-mode and only saw the bit about USB so somehow I thought you were on a laptop! And didn't this thing say optical I/O? That's why I thought it would work for you.

They do make PCMCIA card adapters for desktops but they probably use slots, which you don't have...sigh. Of course, maybe if you post your entire computer configuration, me or drstawl or someone might be able to figure out some way you can get a slot back...it's worth a try.
 
hey dragon, thanks (yet) again! yep, that card says digital, but it's s/pdif rather than fiber optical. is there an adapter of some for changing digital formats? guess i should start a new topic on that one :-) i'll post my computer config in a seperate post. i'm more lost in computer configs than i am in digital audio :-)

thanks again!

tony
 
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