posted 05 September 2000 15:21            

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Originally posted by dgkiers:
3 options I know of:
-SPIRIT RW Series (4 pairs AES/EBU<->T/DIF), www.digital328.com
-TASCAM IF-4-E8
-Z-systems digital detangler z-8.8

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posted 05 September 2000 18:54            

Sprite - all I could find is info on the mixing console. If they have a converter, I can't find it.

Tascam - they convert to their T/DIF format. Fine if you have a T/DIF interface but I already have an ADAT lightpipe interface - that is pretty much the standard these days anyway. T/DIF to ADAT conversion is possible, but it starts to get kludgy and expensive.

Z-systems digital detangler: This looks good, except for one thing - it is quite pricy. $1500. Here are url's for the Z-system's product page (the ADAT one is toward the bottom of the page): http://www.z-sys.com/pp_detm.html#z8

...and for the product page at Sweetwater sound: http://www.sweetwater.com/store/results.tpl?action=full&cart=30510234381093204&--eqskudatarq=8.8a&Criteria=Results

posted 07 September 2000 10:44            

I knew that there was another device lurking in the back of my mind of the kind that you are wanting. It is the Sound Pal Adat-3 (http://www.gpsys.com/pages/adat3.html). Unfortunately, they are not distributed through the regular commercial channels so the price may be high.

Could you explain why you feel you need 8-channels of Kyma generated/processed audio going into, I presume, an multi-track audio program? Certainly you could paste in Kyma-recorded tracks without much effort. I am just curious and am always looking to improve my studio methods.

posted 07 September 2000 13:16            

I currently have the retro fitted Capy 66 with the 320 cards, but with only stereo i/o. I would like to get 8 channels of digital i/o, so I can communicate with the computer as 8 discrete channels, not as an already blended stereo mix. Among other things, it would be really great to be able to use Kyma as an ultra effects processor as well as the super synth it is.

posted 07 September 2000 15:04            

I think there is a cheaper solution. but it is a two stage system and still not that cheap.
First you use the Tascam interface as mentioned by dgkiers, to go too and from aes and tdif (8 channels).Then you use the MOTU 2408 (not the core system) as a stand alone to go too and from tdif and adat lightpipe (8 channels).I think the two together will be cheaper than $2000 but I’m English and don’t know how much $2000 is worth. This will give you many other combinations of format convertion for the next peace of gear you choose to but.

posted 07 September 2000 21:44            

...I was putting together a budget to upgrade the faux 320 to a real one - but my main justification would be to have the digital outs (a few more cards wouldn't hurt, but that is not the pressing need just now). It looks like there is no good solution to it just now, so I'll drop the idea for the time being.