On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Charles Fleche <charles.fleche@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > 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'm my case, with several analogue and digital hardware synths, I also have outboard gear like mixers, compressors, analogue effects etc that I use for color and monitoring. Its also very common for synths to go to thru preamps and di's. Just my .02 brazlilian cents. - R _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
