On 24 10 2003 at 10:39 am -0400, Carl Edlund Anderson wrote:
Hmmm, I suspect that is _well_ out of my budget, but I don't quite see how it works. I see it will take MIDI channels from the Mac via Firewire, but what about audio? Did I just miss that in the list of features :) I mean, if I somehow made 8 different drum track outputs for a song from Doggiebox, I've only got a stereo-out jack on the back of my laptop, so I certainly can't send 8 tracks through it simultaneously. Does the MOTU 828mk2 let you do that via a Firewire connection or something like that?
Yup... there's one firewire connection to the computer. The deck itself has 8 analog (quarter-inch) each of inputs and outputs, plus two additional Neutrik (quarter-inch/XLR dual) inputs with preamps which also provide quarter-inch sends, plus a stereo pair of quarter-inch main outputs, stereo headphone jack, plus 8 digital ADAT (on a DB-15 interface) each of inputs and outputs, plus optical stereo S/PDIF inputs and outputs. Oh yeah, plus the midi input/output, plus a footswitch jack, plus SMTPE in and out on BNC connectors, and probably more that I'm forgetting. :) Each input and output channel is discretely available to/from the computer over the firewire (so that's something like 4 dozen channels in all). As far as Doggiebox is concerned, the missing link right now of course is that you can only have a stereo output. But in concert with the configurable folddown/export groupings coming in the future will also be assignable outputs, so that it will be possible to play back a piece over e.g. 8 output channels at once. -ben -- Ben Kennedy, chief magician zygoat creative technical services 613-228-3392 | 1-866-466-4628 http://www.zygoat.ca