ADAT frontend for DAW

[roy]

Hello,

I inherited a Blackface ADAT from a friend. The tape mechanism is shot, but I would like to use the A/D converters for 8 channels of IO to a DAW. Anybody doing this already like to share some thoughts on how this is working out? Also, what kind of card on a PC system are you using?

Thanks,
Roy

[mrc]

Hi Roy,
I started DAW with a blackface and a Korg 1212 card on win 98. It will work fine as 8 inputs or outputs, at 16 bit. Still, you can't go in and out at the same time with an adat, so you need a way to monitor. I quickly got rid of the Korg, and bought a Rme 9652 and an Alesis AI3 to go with my Adat. That's fairly expensive, but Steinberg makes the VSL 20/20 card that has 2 analog 24 bit converters I/O, 2x8 adat lightpipe I/O connectors and Spdif I/O. They are around $200.00 US new, at places like Wife's Enemy (musician's friend) and other retailers. You can google them up. Very low latency (as low as 1ms, they say) with Asio 2 programs like Cubase and Nuendo. That would save buying converters for listenback, and you'd have 2x24 bit and 8x16, now. Over at WWW.Nuendo.com there are a couple of threads in the hardware section where people are talking pretty tall about the vsl 20/20. Here's the leg work: http://forum.nuendo.com/forum/Forum3/HTML/005375.html
mrc

[mrc]

Hi, I just read at cubase.net that the vsl 2020's are going up, better hurry if that's your choice....musicians still has them cheap @ 199.00: http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=r ... id/707846/ other sources have gone to $299.00
mrc

[roy]

Thanks for the responses so far. Anybody used the EMU 1212M? Looks like it might work for my purposes as well.

Roy

[mrc]

Hi Roy,
From what I've read, people using Asio 2 programs aren't too thrilled with the latency, but YMMV.
Good Luck,
mrc