11 Jul
2021
11 Jul
'21
7:18 p.m.
Hello
I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they are
working great :-)
I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might be
worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the Behringer
ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus interfaces
through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
I have not been able find anything information on how/if this kind of
setup would work on linux and the ffado website seem particularly sparse
with information these days.
Does anybody have a similar setup and can share some insights into what
works and what doesn't - then it would be much appreciated :-)
In particular I would be interested to know how/if the extra channel
from the ADAT interface would show up in jack?
Kind regards
Bent Bisballe Nyeng
11 Jul
11 Jul
8:39 p.m.
That should work as expected. The Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain is a great
device, and I see its unconfigurability as an advantage. In fact I
swapped one of two firefaces (UFX+800) for an ADA8200 because the many
ways to configure this setup wrong were endless.
On 11.07.21 17:18, Bent Bisballe Nyeng wrote:
Hello
I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they are
working great :-)
I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might be
worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the Behringer
ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus interfaces
through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
I have not been able find anything information on how/if this kind of
setup would work on linux and the ffado website seem particularly sparse
with information these days.
Does anybody have a similar setup and can share some insights into what
works and what doesn't - then it would be much appreciated :-)
In particular I would be interested to know how/if the extra channel
from the ADAT interface would show up in jack?
Kind regards
Bent Bisballe Nyeng
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9:15 p.m.
Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> writes:
Hello
I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they
are working great :-)
I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might
be worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the
Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus
interfaces through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
I have not been able find anything information on how/if this kind of
setup would work on linux and the ffado website seem particularly
sparse with information these days.
Does anybody have a similar setup and can share some insights into
what works and what doesn't - then it would be much appreciated :-)
In particular I would be interested to know how/if the extra channel
from the ADAT interface would show up in jack?
Aren't they showing up in Jack already? With the interfaces I use, the
channel assignments are fixed even without ADAT synchronisation. The
numbers may differ when switching between 48kHz and 96kHz though since
then channels are getting bundled. The ADA8200 probably would not do
that.
--
David Kastrup
13 Jul
13 Jul
7:38 p.m.
On 11.07.2021 19.15, David Kastrup wrote:
Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> writes:
On 11.07.2021 18.39, Max wrote:
Hello
I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they
are working great :-)
I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might
be worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the
Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus
interfaces through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
I have not been able find anything information on how/if this kind of
setup would work on linux and the ffado website seem particularly
sparse with information these days.
Does anybody have a similar setup and can share some insights into
what works and what doesn't - then it would be much appreciated :-)
In particular I would be interested to know how/if the extra channel
from the ADAT interface would show up in jack?
Aren't they showing up in Jack already? With the interfaces I use, the
channel assignments are fixed even without ADAT synchronisation. The
numbers may differ when switching between 48kHz and 96kHz though since
then channels are getting bundled. The ADA8200 probably would not do
that.
That should work as expected. The Behringer ADA8200
Ultragain is a great
device, and I see its unconfigurability as an advantage. In fact I
swapped one of two firefaces (UFX+800) for an ADA8200 because the many
ways to configure this setup wrong were endless.
Thank you for your feeback both of you.
After fiddling even more around in the user manual I found out that the
Presonus FireStudio Project interface doesn't even have ADAT, so my
problem sort-of went away on its own (replaced by a different one
though; how to get extra channels).
Cheers // Bent
7:47 p.m.
Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> writes:
Ah, the kind of problem going away that nobody wants apart from GUI
designers. It can probably synchronize via S/PDIF but that does not
really seem to buy you a lot.
--
David Kastrup
Bent Bisballe
Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> writes:
> Hello
>
> I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
> daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they
> are working great :-)
> I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might
> be worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the
> Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus
> interfaces through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
Thank you for your feeback both of you. After fiddling even more
around in the user manual I found out that the Presonus FireStudio
Project interface doesn't even have ADAT, so my problem sort-of went
away on its own (replaced by a different one though; how to get extra
channels). 
9:08 p.m.
I did run three Presonus Firepod 10 cards simultaneously some years ago.
Worked just fine, You could search for another firestudio live second hand.
Firewire stuff tends to be quite cheap nowdays.
/Anders
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 17:40 Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> wrote:
On 11.07.2021 19.15, David Kastrup wrote:
Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org>
writes:
On 11.07.2021 18.39, Max wrote:
Hello
I have two Presonus FireStudio Live firewire interfaces working in
daisy-chain mode for a total of 16 channel pre-amped inputs and they
are working great :-)
I am however sometimes running short on channels and thought it might
be worth looking into adding a cheaper interface, such as the
Behringer ADA8200 Ultragain, and hook that up to one the the Presonus
interfaces through ADAT to ensure full sample synchronization.
I have not been able find anything information on how/if this kind of
setup would work on linux and the ffado website seem particularly
sparse with information these days.
Does anybody have a similar setup and can share some insights into
what works and what doesn't - then it would be much appreciated :-)
In particular I would be interested to know how/if the extra channel
from the ADAT interface would show up in jack?
Aren't they showing up in Jack already? With the interfaces I use, the
channel assignments are fixed even without ADAT synchronisation. The
numbers may differ when switching between 48kHz and 96kHz though since
then channels are getting bundled. The ADA8200 probably would not do
that.
That should work as expected. The Behringer
ADA8200 Ultragain is a great
device, and I see its unconfigurability as an advantage. In fact I
swapped one of two firefaces (UFX+800) for an ADA8200 because the many
ways to configure this setup wrong were endless.
Thank you for your feeback both of you.
After fiddling even more around in the user manual I found out that the
Presonus FireStudio Project interface doesn't even have ADAT, so my
problem sort-of went away on its own (replaced by a different one
though; how to get extra channels).
Cheers // Bent
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9:54 p.m.
On 13.07.2021 18.24, Anders Hellquist wrote:
I did run three Presonus Firepod 10 cards
simultaneously some years ago.
Worked just fine, You could search for another firestudio live second
hand. Firewire stuff tends to be quite cheap nowdays.
/Anders
This is exactly my current solution.
// Bent
14 Jul
14 Jul
3:39 p.m.
I thought you were running two cards and needed more channels so my
suggestion was add a third card.
The firewire bus can handle max 54 channels/streams if I remember correctly
and if 3 firestudios does not exceed 54 channels you would have a solution.
Also latency would be consistent through all channels.
Regards Anders
On Tue, Jul 13, 2021, 19:55 Bent Bisballe Nyeng <deva(a)aasimon.org> wrote:
On 13.07.2021 18.24, Anders Hellquist wrote:
I did run three Presonus Firepod 10 cards
simultaneously some years ago.
Worked just fine, You could search for another firestudio live second
hand. Firewire stuff tends to be quite cheap nowdays.
/Anders
This is exactly my current solution.
// Bent
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