Charles Fleche wrote: > I was randomly looking at current hardware synths, noticing than most of > them offer only analogue outputs. It looks odd to me to generate a sound > in the digital world, then convert it to analogue, just to convert it > back to digital at recording time... If analogue output is obviously a > must, I'm wondering why, even in very expensive keyboards where cost > saving is a smaller issue, an AES/EBU (or at least a S/PDIF) output is > not available. I'd guess that these devices are not meant to be used in a studio but for live performances. There are hardware synths like the Edirol SC-D70 that have a digital output. Regards, Clemens _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user