Jeff, could you send me a reply here rather than the email you sent. I am
being flooded by spam from the automat virus and accidentally deleted your
message amongst the 250 I got this-morning (I saw it after I clicked the
delete button).

Thanks - Pat.

"Pat Sproule" wrote in message
...
Jeff, we are experimenting with mLan on a DM2000 / Mac / Nuendo combo at
the
moment. At the moment there are a few limitations but the future does look
promising. Have a look at www.mlancentral.com. Yamaha have some info and a
new newsgroup there. But first some points from our research....

I think the O2R will only take one mLan card in slot 1. The DM must have
the first mLan in slot 1 and the second in slot 2 but that is all you can
run.

You cant run multiple cards on the one mLan bus. You cant even share the
IEEE1394 port with another device (firewire HD or DV Cam)

You can drop another IEEE1394 card in the mac to get another bus. We are
doing this to run DV video streams out of Nuendo (we produce for TV)

Currently mLan is limited to 8 ch + 1 midi port in both directions at
24bit
48khz

A 16ch 96k card is purportedly in development but is some way off.

mLan under OSX is dead easy - just plug it in and the mac will recognise
it.
You simply select it through Audio-Midi set-up. But, the current OSX will
revert to 2 ch mode after a shutdown and require resetting to 8ch each
time
you restart.

Latency appears to be fairly good

Under OSX you do not have the option of external sync. Thus the console
has
to sync to the Mac. They had it under OS9 so it is possible. Maybe in OS
10.3 ?. Yamaha are said to have one of their staff working with Apple on
development.

You can still run the USB cable for more Midi channels. We use this for
surface control from the DM2k to Nuendo as well as running Yamaha Studio
Manager at the same time as Nuendo.

We experienced a lot of crashing which we blamed on mLan but a lot of it
turned out to be other issues with both Nuendo and (of all things) corrupt
fonts in the OS9 folder which OS10 still reads.


We have been reporting our findings to Yamaha and Apple. Yamaha assures me
that they are ramping up mLan development and expanding the product range.
They see the O1X as a part of that. We are going to run it for a while and
see what happens before we make the final decision on the format. It is a
whole lot cheaper than buying ADAT cards though.

Pat Sproule.


"Jeff Sobel" wrote in message
om...
Is anyone using mLan in their studio right now? Considering setting
up a studio incorporating quite a bit of mLan connections and would
like to get some feedback from people who are actually using it.

Studio A setup would be based around a G5 running Logic Audio and a
Yamaha O2R96. Guess I would need 3 mlan cards in the O2R (8ch per
card)? And don't know how 3 mLan cables connect to the G5. I would
probably want 24 inputs added to the O2R's 24 to create 48ch
simultaneous recording into Logic. Recommendations on i/o with mLan
output (apogee? presonus?). Do i need some kind of mLan hub to get
48ch into the G5?

Studio B is also a G5 running Logic but does not need to be so i/o
intensive so I'd like to throw a control surface there. I would like
to put a Yamaha O1X there. Does *anyone* have an O1X yet? I'd like
to hear from some actual users. If the O1X is not available in time
(I need to begin construction in 3 weeks) I will use an O1V96 as the
front-end and a Rosetta 800 or MOTU box for the i/o and investigate
other brands of control surface for Logic.

Thanks for all your advice.

Jeff Sobel

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