Jul 05, 2011 06:19 pm How many more inputs are you looking for? Perhaps you can daisychain another Ultra8?? I hear ya on the additional 8. I just found an interface for my Roland that allowed me to expand to 16. It was a happy day for me lol
Best way to add inputs?
Posted on Jul 05, 2011 06:01 pm
Indellable
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I have an M-Audio Ultra 8r - www.m-audio.com/products/...ackUltra8R.html
Recorded a band the other day and used all 8 inputs simultaneously - worked great. However, I would like to be able to use more. In fact, having just one more would have been awesome for this past band. Is this where ADAT or S/PDIF comes into play? If so, whats the best way to go about this?
I just recently started recording bands so never really had a need for multiple inputs.
Any insight is appreciated as always...
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Jul 05, 2011 06:19 pm How many more inputs are you looking for? Perhaps you can daisychain another Ultra8?? I hear ya on the additional 8. I just found an interface for my Roland that allowed me to expand to 16. It was a happy day for me lol
Jul 05, 2011 07:15 pm I guess thats what I was getting at - is it possible to daisy chain those units? 8 more would be perfect. Than I suppose it would just be a matter or if my computer could handle it.
Jul 05, 2011 07:43 pm You would have to look into that for sure. Couple things to consider would be the word clock and if you are using ASIO drivers then the driver itself may only be able to handle one unit.
Jul 05, 2011 08:04 pm Ultra8R will not daisy chain. If you are on a Mac you can probably do an aggregate driver which can combine multiple devices into one, not guaranteed to work with all devices though I did read someone linking their Ultra8R and onboard sound card.
The software option on PC is to use ASIO4All and link them but that must be done via WDM drivers which will create some extra latency I assume. Definitely not ideal.
I've been stuck at 8 channels for years because I did not think ahead :( My options right now are to... buy new interfaces that daisy chain, switch to Apple, or plug an 8 channel mixer into one pair of inputs on my interface and not have as much control over those inputs.
Jul 06, 2011 04:14 am The Tascam US-1800 allows 16 inputs as well as daisy chaining, but from what I understand the daisy chaining is difficult at the least. It involves driver tricking, and bios manipulation on APU units, or even other crap on Intel cores with Video support.
Honestly though? I've never had a problem with my AMD Dual core. I've linked 2 units at one time, in Sonar 7 PE, XP Pro, dedicated audio install, with 4.2 MS latency.
I consider that amazing, as with my old computer running a Single Core, dedicated Audio Sonar 7, XP Pro, with a single US-1800 I was getting 4.6 MS latency.
Either way, I love my US-1800! It's the only interface I've ever had that hasn't crapped out on me after 3 months or less! Had it over a year and if it stands for another, I'll be cured of my Tascam fear. But honestly, either way, I feel I'll always buy Tascam. From my US-140, which I learned recording on, to now, I feel they're a good company. Support is crap, but if you read the manual and use it accordingly, who needs support, right?
Jul 06, 2011 01:24 pm You may not be able to Daisy Chain, but you can use your SPDIF connection to expand.
I use an 002 Rack that has 8 inputs, and I use an API A2D via SPDIF to get a total of 10 channels. While it's a very minimal setup for a live band recording, I feel like 10 inputs is sufficient for most projects. Sometimes being forced to think within the "10 input" frame of mind is best. More mics=more phasing issues. Being constrained to 10 inputs is a blessing and a curse; but more blessing than curse from my pov.
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