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Actually, that's very helpful. Sounds like the way to do it if TotalMix isn't any help there. I'll look into that if I need it in the future.

~mumbles

@Havoc: Ok, that's what I figured. Some resources were vague in that SPDIF isn't limited by channel or resolution, but no one ever mentioned anything more than stereo. @toddz: Focusrite Sapphire Pro line is my other option, but I have a hard time arguing with RME for the direction I want to go. I'm ...

PS ~ that recording was done by a friend and myself. After 2 or 3 attempts to produce the song for fun, we decided to start over from scratch and retrack the whole thing as a more serious excersize with my full setup. Tracked in a day, probably got to this point messing around every once in a while ...

Hey folks! New to the forums so I thought I'd post an intro. I'm a 27 year old full-time line cook, I've been playing drums since I was 9, trumpet since 10, guitar/bass since 12, bass seriously since 19. I studied drums with a private teacher for about 7 or 8 years and did trumpet through school. I ...

Here's the noob in me... I don't get SPDIF, or it's applications really. I did a little searching but didn't find much. It keeps things in the digital domain, but it doesn't seem like it's useful for linking interfaces (unless the SPDIF is a stereo output of all channels). Correct me if I'm wrong. G...

That sounds like a ringing endorsement to me. I checked out your site. Nice studio you have there. Here's the result of my crash course in ADAT and the RME line of products. So, the Multiface are just some converters that live in a breakout box. The PCI card is the actual interface. To bypass the co...

Glad to hear someone is enjoying this. I know I'm kinda long-winded and have enough information to be dangerous. I really like being able to engage in a dialog and sometimes forums are a bit slow for my racing mindset. I just found this regarding my mb and the Multiface... http://www.rme-audio.de/en...

I'm not seeing many used PCI cards out there, but I'll keep looking. Ok, so here's my long-term build plan. Snag a Multiface and a PCI card, use the mixer and outboard pres in the studio until I need more inputs, at which point I snag an 8-channel mic pre with ADAT (like the octamic, for example). T...

This is the first time I'd considered RME out of sheer ignorance. The gear is pretty attractive. Trading off pre-amps for solid hardware performance and Linux support. A bigger initial investment, but I've already spent more than I expected on pre's between the mixer and the channel strips project, ...

Ok, I did some homework. Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 - OR- Presonus FP10 I like the dual headphones, rear connections, Linux support, a bit more gain, and expanadbility of the FS but things like only being able to set standalone mode and digital routing for standalone mode via software, and other featu...

Budget...

I would like to spend $600-1000 between the core system and the interface. I don't mind used gear, moreso for the interface than the computer, so we could push that theoretical upper limit a bit to compensate for value buys.

~mumbles

So, barring one final test with my older ice1712 based pci soundcard on my dad's newer core duo msi system, I'm pretty much ready to start planning a complete upgrade, computer and interface. I'm having trouble finding a starting point, so here are some guidelines. Any advice would be appreciated. I...

Thanks for the links. I've been through the first one, but the second one was new to me. My plan for tomorrow is to see what IRQ my display adaptor shares with the sound card, and try to trick it into splitting up the IRQs by putting in a pci video card and then picking the best of the remaining opt...

I just tried that, and then tried the soundcard in every slot. I can only get the card to show up on IRQs 3, 7, or 11, and 7 and 11 are shared with the display adaptor and onboard SATA/Raid controller repsectively. I tried reserving some IRQs to try to force the soundcard to IRQ 9 (or 10 or 11 witho...

Got 64 Studio to install fine. Now I'm getting more xruns than ever. I did everything reccomended in the wiki related to the QuickScan script. Now I'm working on trying to get my soundcard from IRQ 20 onto IRQ 9, but it seems like the motherboard wants to use that for ACPI and there doesn't seem to ...