ouaaww!!! very interesting! the only drawback is that I work under linux… huummm writing a driver can be difficult… But it’s a nice info! I’ll bookmark this!
If u search the KX driver site and the APS driver site , you’ll find drivers for linux. (I 'm sure I saw them somewhere but don’t remember their name…)
I’ll try to design a board for the circuit.. If i’ve gor something, I’ll post it here!
PS. With this, you’ll have 4 individual inputs (mono) , and not like the mic in/cd/aux/line in , that are in fact the same input! I believe that they can record simultaneously!
huummm I think if they use 4 different ADC, they can be record at the same time… but the driver have to handle this! If you want some help with the board… tell me!
The circuit uses 2 adc from crystal, cs5331 but those are stereo! The drivers handle those inputs not as 2 stereo but as 4 mono ASIO inputs. In Cubase, u can select any of them as VST inputs!!
As for the board, I’m not experienced, I’ve made a couple of boards using Eagle software..Are u more experienced in designing PCB?
yes 4 mono ;D I going too look for linux driver (alsa if possible). And I will looking for a sblive (my sister does have one in her computer… ;D)
I’m not very experiment with PCB designing, but the schematic is not very complicated, so I think it’s easy to make a board. If you want I can check yours, but I don’t think I can make it better than you
As I see this mod… this make think building a complete ADC/ADAT would not be very difficult…???
Wow!! this looks like a very cool, and educational site! I spent ages looking on the net for hacks like this, and never found them till now! Thanks uclaros!
BTW I once tried hooking up 2 sblives and one sb vibra 128, using cubase sx, to get 6 analogue I/O, it found all the inputs, but would only record on one stereo pair at a time… (But all outputs worked at the same time, which was interesting!!.. a cheap way to do outboard processing on your favorite outboard gear ;D)
I currently use 2 sblives purely for the midi interfaces!
Does anyone know of a hack to get a sblive working on a mac? There is a mac version out there, but apparently The PC version (cheaper) won’t work on a mac. (I tried it anyway, without success!) And the driver download for the mac version says not to try to use the mac drivers with a pc sblive.
oh yeah… look on diyaudio.com, to see if anyone has already designed a diy adat interface… (would be very cool !) another option… see if you can get an old adat tape machine, with a busted mechanism, or stuffed heads… I believe it is possible to use such a device to interface adat to analogue devices.
I ordered 3xcs5331 from crystal as free samples but I’m not sure they’re going to ship them to me (no reply from them yet..)
I’m going to start designing-building the circuit next month since I’m leaving for vacation and an exercise for the university on a nice island called Tilos. I’ll be back in about a month… ;D
As for the SBlive it’s very cheap now since the market is filled with audigy and audigy 2!
A SB Live with EMU10k1 : KX are able to handle 16 independant input!!! So, I think 8 can be great… With just one card! I’m going to buy one in the next day, I order a couple of CS5331, and will try that! It seems to be easy to made…!
will the frequency be stuck at 48khz tho still, as I thought it was with these cards? Could we go from the cirrus a/d straight into an alesis optogen for adat then ye - using the clock source from the 10k1?
FOr the adat ;D Well… I think it’s possible, as the AL1402 ahve an ADAT input and I2S output, it will be possible to plug directly an ADAT on the EMU-10k1, this is the aim of “my project”… And then an AL1401 which takes as input the CS ADC (I2S) and output ADAT! And we have a complete ADAT (cheap!) sound card…
I wish Cirrus send me the sample, and I wish htrp://www.alesis-semi.com to be online soon too se if I can order AL140X!!!
Wow I’m spinning out, I didn’t know alesis made a chip available to process ADAT… I was going to buy an analog to ADAT convertor shortly, but if there’s a DIY solution, I’d love to hear more…
I originally just thought of an ext 8/16 chan a/d box with smux capability - but know i’m wondering if we could use multiple hacked live’s in say an ol pc runnin a linux hd recording program, like http://ardour.sourceforge.net/ or summin…
