any old soundcard with any breakout box

[karambos2]

I'm in the market for a new soundcard.

There's an aspect of sound cards that I don't get. Namely, can I put any old 8-channel A/D D/A converter break out box with any old 8-in, 8-out sound card?

For example, can I attach a Behringer Ultragain Pro8 ADA8000 (http://www.behringer.com/02_products/prodindex.cfm?id=ADA8000) to a RMI DIGI96/8 (http://www.rme-audio.com/english/digi96/digi968.htm)

 

[ragata]

Yep, you can. Provided the two units both have lightpipe connections, which I believe they do. In other words, go for it. Although I would probably recommend the "new" Alesis 8 channel AD/DA(can't remember what it's called at the moment) instead of the Behri.