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in 2000, i bought an akai dps12 and a harman kardon dual-deck cd burner. ever since then, i've been mixing/burning in real time via the optical jack. this is very costly in terms of cd-r's, especially when i'm simply burning a single track for the sake of transferring raw tracks into my pc for "mastering" or even simple e-mailing for collabs.
i'm looking for some kind of external hard drive that i could record to in real time without making a d/a/a/d conversion? the optical out on the akai is spidf, and i know that the m-audio hand-held recorder has a spidf i/o, but is it optical? and will it record in real time the way the internal mics would (iow, could i select the "optical in," press "record" on the m-audio, and proceed to real-time mix my dps12 into it)?
i've asked a lot of people about this, and their answer is always, "upgrade to computer recording." this, i simply cannot afford to do because i'd refuse to do it on a budget and would end up dropping about $15k on a mac, interface, control surface, and software. this is out of the question. i either have to find a cheap, easy solution, or keep on doing what i've been doing until my daw dies. and even then i'll probably just get a more modern standalone unit.
can anyone help me?
i'm looking for some kind of external hard drive that i could record to in real time without making a d/a/a/d conversion? the optical out on the akai is spidf, and i know that the m-audio hand-held recorder has a spidf i/o, but is it optical? and will it record in real time the way the internal mics would (iow, could i select the "optical in," press "record" on the m-audio, and proceed to real-time mix my dps12 into it)?
i've asked a lot of people about this, and their answer is always, "upgrade to computer recording." this, i simply cannot afford to do because i'd refuse to do it on a budget and would end up dropping about $15k on a mac, interface, control surface, and software. this is out of the question. i either have to find a cheap, easy solution, or keep on doing what i've been doing until my daw dies. and even then i'll probably just get a more modern standalone unit.
can anyone help me?