Need new card for SPDIF Optical Input

[Chili]

Heya,

It looks like my EMU 0404 card died. I only use it for the SPDIF Optical In and Out and now I need a replacement. One of the shortcomings of the EMU card was it would not process real time effects at 96khz, so I'd like to find something that can do that.

Any suggestions??
Does the M-Audio card process effects in realtime at 96khz??

I'd like to keep it under $100, so buying used might be necessary.

Thanks!!

 

[wheelema]

Heya,

It looks like my EMU 0404 card died. I only use it for the SPDIF Optical In and Out and now I need a replacement. One of the shortcomings of the EMU card was it would not process real time effects at 96khz, so I'd like to find something that can do that.

Any suggestions??
Does the M-Audio card process effects in realtime at 96khz??

I'd like to keep it under $100, so buying used might be necessary.

Thanks!!

Noooo idea. I just didn't want you to think you were being ignored.

 

[Chili]

Noooo idea. I just didn't want you to think you were being ignored.

Ha!! Thanks man. I wasn't getting THAT impression. Just that there might not be anything out there that does what I want.

I'll keep looking.

 

[dgatwood]

Audio cards/interfaces (gamer crap like Creative's offerings notwithstanding) don't generally have anything to do with effects. I'm assuming this is about gaming? If so, and if that stuff matters with modern games, you'd be better off having a standard sound card for that.... That said, as trivial as it is to implement that stuff in software, I can't imagine that any modern games require it to be offloaded onto the sound card these days, do they?

 

[Chili]

Audio cards/interfaces (gamer crap like Creative's offerings notwithstanding) don't generally have anything to do with effects. I'm assuming this is about gaming? If so, and if that stuff matters with modern games, you'd be better off having a standard sound card for that.... That said, as trivial as it is to implement that stuff in software, I can't imagine that any modern games require it to be offloaded onto the sound card these days, do they?

Ahh no, this is not about gaming at all. I have the Lavry's AD-10 and DA-10 and I want to use them with the optical spdif. I have had trouble implementing them in my work flow because I want realtime monitoring with effects (reverb), but dry going into the computer. I've done a lot of searching and can't find anything. But I think I came up with another idea and it means geting another EMU card, which I'm not crazy about. But what can I do??

Thanks for taking the time to post, anyways....

Peace,

 

[dgatwood]

Ahh no, this is not about gaming at all. I have the Lavry's AD-10 and DA-10 and I want to use them with the optical spdif. I have had trouble implementing them in my work flow because I want realtime monitoring with effects (reverb), but dry going into the computer. I've done a lot of searching and can't find anything. But I think I came up with another idea and it means geting another EMU card, which I'm not crazy about. But what can I do??

Using software effects or an outboard hardware effect unit? If you are using software for the effects, I don't see any reason why that would be a problem, but I guess that may depend on what software you are using for recording.

If you are using a hardware effects unit for the reverb, I can think of two ways.

1. Use a mixer with direct outs or foldback outs or whatever for your preamps. Feed the direct out to the AD-10 and disable software play-through in your DAW. Feet the output of the DAW into additional channels on the mixer and let the mixer build up your monitor/headphone mix.
2. Tie in your effects hardware on the output side. Of course, if you don't want to apply it to everything, you'd need more than two outputs, but presumably your audio interface or whatever has outputs, plus the DA-10 has outputs, so use one for your dry mix and one for the solo mic signal you want to sweeten. Patch the solo mic signal through the effects hardware, then mix them together to suit.

Either way uses an external mixer, though, unless you are applying the reverb to the entire mix.

Or are you just asking if the interfaces can do 96kHz S/PDIF? If that's the question, then... which M-Audio card are you asking about?