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Post by Ward on Jun 6, 2024 10:34:42 GMT -6
3 of the Cranbornes here also connected to an RME adi-648 Madi to 8 x Adat ports which goes back to a UFX 3 now days. It runs at 96Khz most 0f the time and sounds great. The 500 rack power supply is also very good and over spec as are the headphone amps. Very powerful and good sounding. You will want to feed the headphone amps with other analog outs otherwise you will loose access to 500 slots to do this task. I experimented a lot initially using the summing section but in the end I don’t use it instead when mixing I make good use of Logic’s IO plugin for hardware inserts and use logics digital mix bus for this with other analog on the 2 bus. I have them all on a patchbay including the inserts. Inserts are unbalanced but this has not been an issue for me interconnecting to other balanced devices. If you don’t use the inserts you end up loosing/ wasting quite a few ad converters needlessly. Those RME adi-648 go for pretty cheap used. I've often wondered about ditching my other stuff and adding extra Cranbornes instead. That's a whole lot of ADAT. In theory you wouldn't necessarily need the UFX III, right? If you were only using pre-amps and such from the Cranbornes. Although I suppose (as you point out) you'd lose two 500 slots getting your monitoring signal out. Spreichen-zie Greek? |
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Post by ericn on Jun 6, 2024 10:59:02 GMT -6
I just wish they had an AES option. would it really be too much to ask that there be 8 channel 500 series chassis (what's the plural here?) with a simple AES in and out to connect to your converter? It really comes down to the fact that ADAT boards are dirt cheap & the I/O takes up minimal real estate. |
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Post by the other mark williams on Jun 6, 2024 12:56:45 GMT -6
I just wish they had an AES option. would it really be too much to ask that there be 8 channel 500 series chassis (what's the plural here?) with a simple AES in and out to connect to your converter? Amen. I really dislike ADAT as a format. I have to work at a variety of sample rates, and I've had more issues with ADAT switching sample rates than AES. |
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