Hola Folks,

My brain has been melted while looking for a new audio interface or some way to augment my current set-up.

I am running an Apogee Ensemble at the moment and the 8 channel I/O is no longer enough for what I am doing. My profile is up to date if you'd like more information.

A form of data transfer developed by Alesis for use in their ADAT machines. Using light as the carrier signal, ADAT optical is similar to TosLink two channel formula and uses a similar connector, but is optimized to include up to eight discrete channels of digital audio. Used today as one of several digital transmission protocols for linking digital audio devices.

As far as I know the information being passed through an ADAT Optical Digital out can only go as high as 48K. But I was researching the Focusrite Octopre and it states that there is a new ADAT spec that now makes it possible to use ADAT to transfer 96k digital information. Has any one heard about this? Or does any one know where I can get info on this new spec?

Jzk8qwHi,
I'm trying to find a device that would split an 8 channel lightpipe signal into 2. I have an 8-channel preamp with 24-bit/44.1khz ADAT Lightpipe output.

I need to send a signal to my computer for recording and also to my digital mixer for monitoring. I just need a simple 2-way splitter, but it needs to not affect the signal in any way.

Hi.

I haven't been able to get Pro Tools to acknowledge digital signal from the Focusrite ISA428 ADAT outputs.

The main problem seems to be that in my Hardware preferences, I can't change the Optical choice from S/PDIF to ADAT. Its greyed out.

What do I do?

Thanks,
Mike

Hi I just purchased this unit used and it doesn't seem to be working properly. The person I bought it from said they would take it back so thats not the problem. The problem is that I can't get a digital signal into or out of the adc. The ADAT optical seems to be broken. I should note that at no time has there ever been light coming out of the toslink cable.

Anyone know where I can get a copy of the
ADAT optical specification. I'm hearing lots
of "spec"ulation, but can't seem to locate
an actual document (or someones reverse engineered version). Any help appreciated!
Thanks
MB