Yes I was confused about the Optical connectors on Macs and ADAT
lightpipe for some time. Macs come with S/PDIF ports. Both protocols
use TosLink connectors — hence the confusion. S/PDIF cannot transmit
8 channels and ADAT lightpipe can.
On 19/08/2010, at 10:22 PM, George Toledo wrote:
I'm kind of curious... how are you actually connecting an ADAT
lightpipe out to an Apple computer? I've not known any Apple
computers to actually have lightpipe inputs.
You may be connecting to what is a stereo digital input that has a
similar connector, or are you converting to Firewire or USB?
However, I generally avoided ADATs when they were popular, so take
that with a grain of salt.
You might try going to http://kineme.net , then downloading and
installing the "AudioTools" plugin. That has a patch that will also
show all connected devices, and another patch that will output all
channel data, and show you if you're actually getting 8 channels in
or not.
Again, as far as I know, there should be a firewire or usb device
that accepts lightpipe somewhere in the mix here.
-George Toledo
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:59 AM, Christopher Wright <[email protected]
> wrote:
I am trying to use the optical digital audio input as audio input
into Quartz composer. However, I am struggling with getting Quartz
to see the optical audio input as a source. Ideally, I would like
for this to work with an Alesis Blackface ADAT. 8 discrete channels
of audio. But I would be interested in any information regarding
utilizing that input with quartz
First, what kind of input specifically are you looking for? As
others have mentioned, the only real audio processing available in
Quartz Composer is the Audio Input patch, which offers a peak volume
and limited EQ. If you're looking for sample data, or multichannel
input, you're likely to be disappointed.
On the Audio Input patch, press cmd-2 to get its settings panel --
you should be able to select various audio input devices there.
Another useful tool may be Audio MIDI Setup -- it can help you
identify what your optical input is presenting itself as (it may
well be the Default Input device).
--
Christopher Wright
[email protected]
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