After a *long* evening of work, I accomplished my first *digital* transfer from Cool Edit to the MDS-PC2. I have so far been unsuccessful at transfering from the output of the DIO2448 to the MDS-PC2; I get intermittent "DIN Unlock" when there's any audio. (It seems to lock to silence OK, but how useful is that?) I found that the codec on the computer's motherboard, a CS4299, had an SPDIF output on pin 48. A TOSLink transmitter, a little microsoldering to the pin on this tiny chip (about 1/4 the size of a postage stamp) and I was in business! I must note that I have hooked a Midiman CO3 format converter to both the DIO2448 and the motherboard output. Both give a continuous "source valid" indication. The CO3 has a CS8414 (it's the 96KHz version of the CS8412) digital audio receiver, so I connected a scope to the data output (pin 26) triggered from frame sync (pin 11). (This suggestion comes from Bob Katz http://www.digido.com/bitscope.html ) I got a very stable display, regardless of whether I was looking at the DIO2448 or the motherboard digital output. Could it be that the DIO's clock rate is off to far for the MDS-PC2? Or does it's output have some screwiness in the subcode bits that is tripping up the 'PC2? Anyway, now that I have some evidence that the 'PC2 is functioning properly, I'll go back to M Audio customer support. I'd be interested in knowing if anyone else has experience with either the DIO2448 or the MDS-PC2... ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
