[Scott Dorsey]

Mike Rivers wrote:
Scott Dorsey wrote:

Sure, you can mix in the digital domain. You can plug the output of the
synth directly into the digital input of a recorder or into a Tascam or
Yamaha digital mixer.

Maybe. Most synths that have digital output have S/PDIF optical and most
digital mixers, if they have a TOSLink input at all, have it in the ADAT
configuration. I think Kurzweil had a polyphonic synth with an ADAT
optical output which allowed you to assign different voices to different
digital channels, but that's getting a little too fancy for the simple
question, I think.

So you spend a little money for the box from HOSA that converts Toslink
to AES/EBU, or you use an old DAT machine. But yes.

What is preferred depends on the sound you want to get and how you like to
work. For all I know, the sound you want might require miking a Leslie.

Mostly what's preferred is whatever connection will work at all. Square
pegs (TOSLink) don't fit round holes (S/PDIF Coax, AES/EBU, or AES3id)
very well. And then there's the issue of word clock synchronization. If
it's the only digtal input to the mixer, chances are the mixer can se
set to pick up the clock from that input. But if you have a bunch of
synths, all with digital outputs, all connected to a digital mixer,
either all the mixer inputs must be self-clocking (reclocking) or the
word clocks have to be synchronized somehow.

Don't do it, hold out for the Leslie with the SM-57. It's still cool.
--scott

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