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Description
The term ADAT has come to stand for both the original digital tape machines and also for the lightpipe data transmission system. The ADAT lightpipe has become an audio industry standard for digital data transmission between units other than the original ADAT tape machines.

Is this even possible? ADAT OUT to OPTICAL IN

I've done a lot of serches on this but i still don't get it.
I have a zed r16 with 16 chanels of ADAT in/out and a Tascam CD-RW2000 CD recorder with digital in.
Tha connectors are the same(toslink cable).
Im trying to send 2 master tracks from the zed to the Tascam to record a mix digitally but no luck getting a signal on the Tascam so far.

ADAT Optical

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.