[LAU] Using an RME Multiface II as a DAC/ADC converter box

[Paul Davis]

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Brent Busby <brent at keycorner.org> wrote:

> Currently my recording setup is an RME Multiface II connected to their
> PCI-E card, which of course works great in Jack.  I'd like to find a way to
> take advantage of the 8 ADAT i/o's so I could have 16 i/o's in use total.
>
> The funny thing is though that almost all the standalone converter boxes
> made by RME, Lynx, and just about everyone else that have 8 i/o's and an
> ADAT port are around $1700-2000 USD.  It seems odd that RME can manage to
> put 8 analog i/o's with nice converters into a Multiface II box and sell it
> for $700-900 but they can't give you the same thing without the computer
> uplink for less than $1700.  Look at the comparative prices to see what I
> mean:
>
> http://www.sweetwater.com/**store/detail/Multiface2<http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Multiface2>
>
> http://www.sweetwater.com/**store/detail/ADI8ProDS/<http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/ADI8ProDS/>
>
> I don't know what more the ADI-8 series would be giving me that the
> Multiface doesn't, but whatever it is, I don't think I need it...especially
> not for $1900.
>
> So do you think it would be possible (or weird?) to just get another
> Multiface box and hook it up to my first one via the ADAT and word clock
> ports, and have it provide another 8 i/o's visible from the first one's
> mixer as ADAT channels?  Would that even work?  The pertinent thing here is
> that I *wouldn't* be getting it its own PCI card -- it would entirely be a
> slave of the first Multiface (provided that's possible).  It seems silly,
> but maybe not so silly if it could save about $1000.
>

actually, my standalone AD/DA units (Tango 24's) died and i'm currently
using a fireface 400 as the AD/DA for a digiface. it works wonderfully, and
has the benefit that it merges the audio from my main linux system and main
OS X system :)
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