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/ADI8ProDS/

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.sweetwate… http://www.sweetwater.com/**store/detail/ADI8ProDS/<http://www.sweetwate… 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.

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.sweetwate… http://www.sweetwater.com/**store/detail/ADI8ProDS/<http://www.sweetwate… 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. -- + Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys + Sr. UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will + University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of + James Franck Institute + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, + Materials Research Ctr + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky ______________________________**_________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@lists.**linuxaudio.org<Linux-audio-user@lists.linuxaudio.org> http://lists.linuxaudio.org/**listinfo/linux-audio-user<http://lists.lin…