On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 20:57:33 -0500, Thomas Vecchione wrote: > On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 9:58 AM, John Murphy <rosegardener@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote: > > > As a newcomer to the "Pro Audio" industry and a long time *nix user > > (somewhat mitigating this outburst here) I must say I'm not impressed. > > > > I've spent thousands recently and found suppliers either just don't > > 'know' the products they sell, or purposely misrepresent them. In one > > instance it took nearly a month to obtain a refund! > > > > > You need to get better suppliers then. Can't help you on your side of the > pond, but I can tell you there is a huge difference on my side of the pond > between most stores and suppliers. It may even be simpler than that. I should stop immediately snapping up a bargain and always check that the item is as advertised, before paying. > > Why must I have so many microphone inputs? I'm a solo poet/musician > > with one mic. and enough places to plug it in to sink a battleship. > > > > > You don't need to get that many mic inputs unless you want them. There are > multiple interfaces I can think of with 2 or less mic inputs but still > having ADAT or multiple line inputs. And of course there are numerous 2 > channel or so interfaces. I may have just found something more suitable than I've seen before. Eight line level inputs to one ADAT with word clock in/out in half rack width. Pretty reasonable price too. SMPro Q-ADAT. > > Synth manufacturers: Why no ADAT out? > > > > > Korg Triton, as an example, years ago had it. I liked the concept, in > reality it very rarely got used, thus why it likely got removed(Pure > assumption on my part). For gigging musicians, it means savings thousands > of dollars on AD/DA conversion, for studio musicians many are switching to > controllers and computer based synths or using analog synths. Was it an option for the Triton? I've seen little boards for the rack version at $400. Alesis Quadrasynths had it, of course. -- John. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
