Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-10 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 09.12.2012 13:00, schrieb Fons Adriaensen: Apart from that, syncing cards requires more than just a common clock, you also need a single 'start' signal distributed in HW ('start' meaning that the next sample will be at position 0 in the first buffer). If the start signal is just distributed

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-10 Thread Charlie Richmond
Warning!!! Commercial Post!!! On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: On 7 Dec, 2012, at Fri 7 Dec 14:56 , Andrew Horsburgh andrew.horsbu...@uws.ac.uk wrote: That with the matrix is interesting. Do you mean controlling the gain of the inputs

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-09 Thread Sebastian Gabler
Am 07.12.2012 20:16, schrieb Jörn Nettingsmeier: as mentioned by someone else, rme hdsps can be ganged. _but_ i've seen weird timing issues with an old hdsp madi pci and a hdsp madi pcie - they would be in perfect sync, but with random offsets of plus/minus several hundred samples, apparently

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-09 Thread Fons Adriaensen
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 12:12:15PM +0100, Jörn Nettingsmeier wrote: i could imagine how a situation like you describe could come about when wiring the cards this way, but it feels a bit weird. iiuc, connecting each card to an always-active wc source directly should have avoided the issue,

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-09 Thread Jörn Nettingsmeier
On 12/09/2012 06:20 PM, Michael Chapman wrote: Been lurking (with interest (and financial envy ;-) ) : Jörn wrote: but with the andiamo you get rid of the toslink risk, Could you explain, that comment ? Thanks in advance, Michael. the andiamo is a MADI device, hence no adat

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-09 Thread Gregorio Garcia Karman
...@music.vt.edu [sursound-boun...@music.vt.edu] On Behalf Of Gregorio Garcia Karman [ggkar...@musicologia.com] Sent: 07 December 2012 12:15 To: Surround Sound discussion group Subject: Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ? Lots of people quite surprised/horrified . Differing

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-08 Thread Augustine Leudar
HI Jorn, Thanks for the well informed reply as usual. honestly, for a system like that, i wouldn't think about windows even for a split second. there is really only one sane system choice, and that is clearly linux. for your frontend and user experience, by all means go with windows if it

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Gregorio Garcia Karman
On 7 Dec, 2012, at Fri 7 Dec 08:38 , Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: and 8 of these: https://www.kmraudio.com/focusrite-r...-interface.phphttps://www.kmraudio.com/focusrite-rednet-5-interface.php might be good though :- down to £10,000 ! would you mind posting

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Gregorio Garcia Karman
Lots of people quite surprised/horrified . Differing yes - but if you look at the result 80% of people voted for the Behringers - and this is one of the largest communities of sound engineers on the web who would have been listening on their own equipment at home/studio - sure a couple of

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
obviously Id love to spend millions of pounbds on the best sytem - but these days getting any money at all for experimental arts projects is challenging ! On 07/12/2012, Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: Dear Augustine, I guess you are right. Congratulations for your past

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Miguel Negrao
A 07/12/2012, às 17:05, Augustine Leudar escreveu: Thanks Joseph, Actually Miguel works in the same room as me but I haven't been in much recently - Do you know if game of life can be adpated to do height as well ? Well, I do see you there from time to time... ;-) No it doesn’t work with

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-07 Thread Augustine Leudar
yes Matts uses Vbap between two arrays for height - but only works on windows thus far On 7 December 2012 21:50, Miguel Negrao miguel.negrao-li...@friendlyvirus.org wrote: A 07/12/2012, às 17:05, Augustine Leudar escreveu: Thanks Joseph, Actually Miguel works in the same room as me

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-06 Thread Gregorio Garcia Karman
Question 1 anyone know how to do a 256 channel system ? - can you expand the rme with an extra 64 channels somehow ? They would all need to be controlled by the same clock so they were perfectly synchronised - perfect timing is even more important than usual in WFS systems. p 33 of the RME

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-06 Thread Charlie Richmond
On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Gregorio Garcia Karman ggkar...@musicologia.com wrote: p 33 of the RME HDSPe MADI FX english manual: you may use up to three MADI FX on one machine using OSX aggregation: The current driver supports up to three HDSPe in any combination There seem to be

Re: [Sursound] 256 channel out system - recommendations ?

2012-12-06 Thread Gregorio Garcia Karman
On 7 Dec, 2012, at Fri 7 Dec 03:12 , Augustine Leudar augustineleu...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies. Actually the Behringers are petty good despite being Behringer they actually outperformed an AD converter 20 times their price in a blind test recently which left many engineers