Daisy Chaining with ADAT LIGHTPIPE ON SONAR 4 .

[rec1166]

Hello !

I Was Wondering If Someone Has A Similar Setup As Mine .

Sonar 4 Producer Edition
Emu 1212 Using Adat Interface
Behringer Ada8000
Soundcraft Compact 4
Korg D888


I Want To Expand My Inputs And Outputs To 16 Digital , I`d Like To Know If I Can Daisy Chain Two Behringer`s Ada8000 Into The Emu 1212 And Sonar . And If Then I`ll Need To Clock Them .

Also If Someone Is Familiar With The Korg D888 I See A Spdif Output Does It Serve Me In Anyway For This ?

Thanks .

 

[tntkemp]

No...ADAT is 8 channels in and 8 channels out, period. Therefore, once you've used those 8 channels, you can't have more...no such thing as Daisy Chaining in this manner.

 

[mixsit]

Is there an expansion card for the EMU?

 

[tntkemp]

If I were a betting man...without looking it up, I'd say there is no expansion card for the EMU. I don't know this as fact. However, all that you would need to do to add 8 more channels via ADAT is install an ADAT card in your computer. It may be possible to run 2 EMU 1212's to accomplish this...you'll have to check compatibility. The Behringer ADA8000 is an ordinary Analog/Digital/Analog converter. It will plug into any ADAT card and provide you it's full I/O capability...so two ADA converters + 2 ADAT I/O cards in your computer equals 16 channels of full-duplex I/O.

As for the SPDIF output on your Korg D888 recorder, SPDIF is not compatible with ADAT. SPDIF is 2 channels in and/or out, whereas ADAT is 8 channels in and/or out. However, you could probably plug the SPDIF out of the Korg D888 into the SPDIF in on your EMU 1212, using the Korg D888 as a mixer down to 2 channels of additional inputs to the EMU 1212.

IE., you should be able to do up to 10 audio tracks in to your computer through the EMU 1212 using both the ADAT and the SPDIF inputs. I use a Frontier Designs Dakota card for this. It already has 2 ADAT I/O's built in, as well as SPDIF and MIDI. I can record up to 18 inputs at once (8+8+2...ADAT+ADAT+SPDIF).