Spdif connection

[Music Manic]

Hi guys,

I've sent my mixer outs through Spdif but what is the DiG part of the Spdif connector.
Does using L/R still not keep it digital seeing that I'm sending it through a 75 Ohm cable?

Thanks

[shayart]

Every single cable transmits two channels

[Music Manic]

My question relates to the DIG part of the scope module smart pants.

[dante]

dig this

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[garyb]

the manual???

[garyb]

sorry.
props to Dante for the effort to look that up.
by the way-the manual is found by clicking on the question mark on the live bar(the Scope window that says "file set ?" at the top). the manual is just pdf files, so you can just open the files located in Scope\manual. the manual isn't good as literature for reading front to back, but it's excellent for specific questions about each device or feature in Scope.

[Music Manic]

Thanks Dante.

I did look at the manual Gary, I'm not that lazy!

I think the one on Sonic Core's site must be outdated because the Spdif module in version 5 actually has Dig on it with L/R.

[hubird]

...but what is the DiG part of the Spdif connector?...
Thanks

[dante]

Surround signal from DVD (?)

Shay art is right - only 2 channels - unless .... Compressed ?

[garyb]

or anything that generates a surround signal, i guess.

there are a lot of things in Scope. it's part of "why can't they just", but it's also part of the reason that many different uses for the hardware are possible. some things are relics from ideas that came and went, like GSIF, some good, some never useful...Scope cards have been around for millenia in computer years.

[dante]

Yes, a case of ASIO killed the GSIF star but not before Zimmer used it to construct his mega giga orch farm.

In the case of Surround, maybe it's the Wave Digital Source module that does the compression allowing spdif to carry 5 or 6 channels instead of only 2.

[garyb]

sp/dif could carry however many channels to the max data rate limit, but the standard is 2. the surround protocol is read by something that recognizes the file format, but the transmission line is the same, in either case. digital is digital, hardware-wise. it's the method of encoding and then decoding the data that is the difference, so the same hardware can support different formats. sp/dif connectors are two conductor, so any sp/dif signal will be a single interleaved stream. surround is just a different stream. the Scope environment can'r decode/encode the signal, so there's a single port for forwarding the data. i'm really not sure why it's needed, but i'm sure somebody must be thrilled that it's there...

[dante]

Heres the only legal (no 'pad' errors) connection I could find.....

dig-to-spdif

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Basically, if you don't have a surround output capable soundcard like a soundblaster for games and DVD's, well, you do now if you have a Scope PCI card and a surround system with spdif (coax) input !