32 channel MADI AD/DA

**bigtree** · 04-01-2011, 07:40 PM

I almost took the plunge for 2 ADI-8 QS . Maybe I will hear from them on Monday. I've sold one of my FF800 so I'm getting excited.

Rainer, how easy is it changing conversion rates with MADI compared to AES/EBU ? Is it as simple as opening/creating a new session and you are able to choose 44.1 or 88.2 without weird things happening?

**Big K** · 04-02-2011, 02:55 AM

Please, explane "changing conversion rates"...
Do you mean changing the samplerate from inside the software or MADI card
or an actual conversion of SR's, like from 96 to 44.1 kHz?

RME features SteadyClock which can generate the wordclock from the MADI signal ( incl. refresh-anti-jitter).
Also it has the regular WC I/O (comming from the house clock or the PC card / set by the DAW)
The SR can be changed like with any other device accepting WC.
I am not to fluent with MADI, since I don't have it in studio, yet, and the MADI with my DASH 3324S is
somewhat outdated. RME is by far superior ... Read this "MIDI Theory" pages by RME... good advice, there.
RME: MADI Info Center

**bigtree** · 04-02-2011, 06:23 AM

I was speaking with RME support yesterday and I may have misunderstood because it didn't make sense to me either. I'm not familiar with MADI so until I use something, have an issue and learn the fix, some things are always a bit cloudy until you are faced with a problem. It sounds like it is of no concern to me because I'm not using numerous converters. Support mentioned the difficulty ( can be tricky) changing rates and it was either that or sample rate. They said this wasn't an issue with AES/EBU like it was in MADI. I should have clarified more.

**bigtree** · 04-02-2011, 11:39 AM

If anyone is going to prolight+sound in Frankfurt next week... they ( ANDIAMO.XT - 32 channel AES/EBU version and MADI AD/DA-Converter) are located at Hall 9, B50D .

The company has responded to me. Awesome, I hope this is as good as it looks.