stupid sort of question with Adats, 2408, and computer

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Hey computer guru people,
I'm still kinda new at all this stuff, but I really like to toy around with all this recording junk, so I gots a question.
Will running optical inputs from the Adats into the 2408 release pressure from the computer processor (instead of running straight analog inputs into the 2408)? I'm thinking of running about twelve or fourteen live singnals through the Adats and straight into Digital Performer but optical cable(or some other program... nother story). Does that sound realistic and will the pci card from MOTU and computer (lets say a G4 or PIII... nother story) handle that much load at one time?
I hope this doesn't sounds too simple or stupid a question.
Thanks ya'll
 
I think that any andlog-to-digital conversion that happens happens in the MOTU box anyway, and is independent of the computer, so I would think there would be no difference as far as the CPU was concerned whatever was the source of the digital audio you fed it. Of course, there's a quality issue -- the ADAT optical route means you don't have to take your ADAT recordings out of the digital domain to get them onto the computer.

As far as whether or not you can be piping 8 tracks of ADAT while also recording eight more tracks of audio is more up to the MOTU box than anything. I believe track count is for a function of the hard drive speed, the hard drive controller, and the motherboard's front-side bus speed.
 
hey al,
thanks for the feed-back. What I was really thinking of doing was trying to set two adats into record ready mode and just pass live signals straight through the adats (kinda bypassing putting anything down to tape) and into the 2408/ computer software without actually recording anything on the adats (just using the converters).
 
It should work either way if it works at all. All the computer sees is what's coming through the PCI bus from the MOTU interface card, whether they be digital audio from an ADAT's converters or fromthe MOTU's.
 
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