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appreciate if someone can point me in the right direction here.

I've got three pieces of digital gear

Yam DS2416 connected via lightpipe to Scope Pro connected via z-link to A16U (DS & Scope are in seperate machines). Signal routing is from A16 to Scope to DS and back out (basically using the A16/Scope as front end and FX and DS for mixing).

I've got Scope set as Wordclock master and I see a z-link sync light on the A16U and the DS picks up an external workclock on its ADAT interface. Happy days except that when I play audio from my DAW I get loads of clicks in the audio stream!

If I set the DS as master and Scope as slave the sync light goes off on the A16U as it can't see any wordclock signal - I get no clicks however when I play audio.

Am I doing something stupid?

Si

Can you connect the A16u via lightpipe instead of z-link? I'm not saying that's the problem, but I don't see any need to use the z-link in your case unless you wanted to run @ 96kHz, which you can't do with the DS2416 anyway. FWIW we had problems here in the past when trying to run Scope & our DS2416 @ 48kHz & encountered the same problem when trying to run 2 x Yam' O1V, Scope & a Noah EX @ 48kHz. No problems at 44.1 though & that's with up to 5 pieces of digital gear interconnected via ADAT.

Btw, I'd probably try to get your A16 running as Master & Scope as slave.

Thanks for the post Shroomz.

I want to use the Z-Link if poss as I only need a limited number of analogue in/outs and don't want to tie up 8 channels of ADAT just to get a stereo signal in and back out of the A16U (overkill I know!) - I also want to go straight into Scope as I process after the input (Mojo etc.).

Do you know if wordclock is passed through a device i.e. with three pieces of gear connected in a chain does Wordclock get passed through the middle device to the device at the other end?

Thanks,

Si

You can go straight into Scope via Adat just as you do with Z-link, but I understand why you would want to use the z-link if you need the Adat channels for something else.

Yes, the WC signal will be passed through the first slave device to the second one.