Mike Rivers wrote:
In article 4x_3e.892689$8l.527361@pd7tw1no writes:
They go into lots of detail in the manual on transferring files over
ethernet, but note that the ethernet connection can be slower than
transferring over lightpipe; however they don't say much about
transferring via lightpipe other than diagrams showing how to connect it.
When using the "lightpipe" method, you aren't transferring files,
you're transferring digital audio, and a new file or files is created
on the computer end. It's strictly real time - play on the ADAT,
record on the computer. If you have 24 channels of lightpipe interface
on your computer, you can do it all in one pass. If you have 8 chanels
of lightpipe interface, it takes three passes, or three times real
time, plus whatever time it takes to line up the groups of tracks.
Of course, when you put it that way, it all makes perfect sense and I
wonder why I didn't think of that myself instead of posing what for me
seems like a stupid question...
Thanks, Mike.
I know there's a firewire option available for the HD24, but that's a
relatively hefty extra cost, in addition to needing to add a firewire
card to the PC ($25 for a PCI firewire card, $300+ for the HD24 adapter,
pffft).
I thought that they were giving away the Firewire dock for free these
days. That may have been a limited time offer and you missed it, but
you might find that it's still available. $25 to add this capability
to your computer is well worth while.
Yeah, the thing that gets me is the fact that the interface for the deck
is so much compared to $25 for a simple PCI card.