[LAU] [OT] hardware sound module with digital output

[robert lazarski]

On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Charles Fleche <charles.fleche at free.fr> 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