Hi Gary, --- "Kent, Gary" <gkent@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Steve, > > Sorry to be a pest, but does the Hammerfall Lite > fall right into > the box on Linux? If I'm seeing right there is not > the possibility with > this card to have playback without a computer since > it is nothing but > optical ports, with no 1/8" or 1/4" jacks? I own a digi9652. The card has three ADAT lightpipe banks, one SPDIF, nine pin ADAT sync and wordclock. This > Lite card is what I > have been leaning towards but want to be really sure > about it because I > am researching a whole new setup based around a good > optical card. I am guessing you've got a mixer and are building a studio. It's probably safe to suggest that you can never have to much I/O. My RME card does not have MIDI but I see the newer ones do. I think that's an interesting feature because ADAT, wordclock and MIDI are all on one card where they occupy one pci slot and one IRQ. My experience is that I never have to many pci slots. Having everything on one card just seems ideal to me. It's to bad some people are experiencing problems with the newer HDSP card. > Just out of curiosity, what preamps and such do you > interface to this > card with? I have a Tascam DM-24. I think you can buy them used for $2,000.00 U.S. For the price, it's a great board. Of course Tascam preamps and EQs have always sucked which is one reason their boards are so inexpensive. I "insert" the preamps/EQs from a Soundtrac Solo into the Tascam. I also have a couple Yamaha AW4416. Of course their preamps and EQs are on a par with the DM-24 but their A/D is even worse. I have clients who own HDD for these things and when doing their sessions I route Solo -> DM-24 (insert) -> AW4416. > Mark Knecht: > You said that you didn't use the Lite card much > under Linux but > that it worked ok, and sorry to be a pest here, but > were there > deficiencies somewhere with this card that caused > you to yank it out? Does the Lite have wordclock? I think the digi9652 is the digi9632 with a daughter board that has wordclock and one more ADAT bank. The daughter board doesn't require a pci slot but it does bolt into pci slot chasis. I get confused with the RME model names. The one I own and am referring to is an older card. I've never had a problem with its drivers. ron > >> I also own a Hammerfall Light. It worked under > Linux, but I didn;t > use it much. Some time ago I removed it and it's > sitting on my desk > begging for a machine to go into. > > > That wouldn't be a sales offer, would it? ;>) > > > Many thanks again, > gk > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html
