Scope I/O Count?

[deeplfo]

Hi,
I was looking at the Scope line, and was wondering how the high reported number of I/Os (e.g. 36 in Scope Home) are accomodated when there is only one stereo pair of I/Os (counting digital and analog)?

Basically I am looking for connecting loads of analog inputs to a card. Not using optical or digital. Does Scope allow for that?

thanks,
mohsen

[astroman]

no, you have to use digital channels with external converters, either Adat or ZLink (Firewire cable, custom protocol).

It's that way for good reason: the environment in a PC case isn't exactly pleasing for smooth analog signals - lots of electrosmog inside

cheers, Tom

[at0m]

The Scope Home, with an ADAT io and 2 Z-Link, will have following connections:
- analog io
- S/P-DIF io
- optical: can be used as either optical S/P-DIF or ADAT, ADAT offering 8io using a CW A8 or 3rd party convertor box,
- 2 Z-Link with each 8io, allows to connect an A16U (balanced, jacks), or 2 Luna2496 boxes (unbalanced, RCA).

That's how it sums up to the 36 io. The Z-Link IO, a proprietary format over Firewire cables, only connects CW's A16U or up to 2 Luna2496's. Z-Link allows 96kHz with all IO, ADAT can use "S-Mux" protocol to do 96kHz to the A16u but then only half of the amount of channels...

CW's precedessor of the A16U, the A16, only connects to 2 ADAT port IO pairs, so a Scope Home with one ADAT IO pairs will only allow to connect 8 of the A16's channels...

Hope this sums it up, or about - feel free to ask us to elaborate on this

[ali]

A Scope Home + ADAT Expansion+ 2 A16 Ultra AD/DA converter boxes will give you 32ins and outs analog from the A16's Ultra + the analog on the card = 34 ins and 34 outs.

Plus the SPDIF I/0 =36 ins and 36 outs.

On 2006-08-31 10:46, deeplfo wrote:
Hi,
I was looking at the Scope line, and was wondering how the high reported number of I/Os (e.g. 36 in Scope Home) are accomodated when there is only one stereo pair of I/Os (counting digital and analog)?

Basically I am looking for connecting loads of analog inputs to a card. Not using optical or digital. Does Scope allow for that?

thanks,
mohsen

[deeplfo]

Thanks everyone for the clarification, thought that's what might be going on.

Anyone have links to the external interfaces mentioned, i.e. the ZLinks/ADATs...

thanks again,
mohsen

[deeplfo]

nevermind, found them.

thx

[Leper]

I use an Alesis AI3 hooked up to two of the ADAT ports on my card.. It allows 8 analog mono-in and 8 analog mono-out. Same thing with the Creamware A16 and some other interfaces.

[dawman]

4 live work look at the Behringer ADA8000 Ultragain. Just one more German product I am using. Next thing you know I will be buying a BMW or Porsche. I wish!!! I drive shitter cars and trucks, it's my trademark, as all of my money is in real estate and Scope. You know, things that have a great return on investment. Fuck the cars. It just dawned on me, I'm even a Jaegermeister drinker WTF is happening to me. Well with a name like Vogts and a 300 year old family crest, I guess it was meant to be.

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Jimmy V.

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[astroman]

On 2006-08-31 19:04, scope4live wrote:
...It just dawned on me, I'm even a Jaegermeister drinker WTF is happening to me.

well, you just had to - so many requests for the body of Ralf...
Ralf is also one of the speaking deers in the <a href=http://www.jaegermeister.de>Jaegermeister</a> ads, but I'm not sure if the bodies are identical
I'm sure you'll enjoy the site(*) even with few to no German skills, as it's, well - audio-visual
(*) Javascript/Flash, great webdesign, award winning

cheers, Tom