good interface between laptop scope

FrancisHarmany · Post by **FrancisHarmany** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:41 am

Hello. I was wondering what options I have to
connect a laptop to my scope machine.

I could buy a soundcard with outputs, and then an a16 and hook things up like that. However, cant I simply transfer audio via firewire to
my scope pc, and feed it to the asio2 driver ?

Does anything like this exists ? Maybe I can transfer over the Network with Gigabit ? Should be pretty fast or.......

so please throw all your solutions at me

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darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 5:56 am

http://www.magma.com

edit: misunderstood your question. The easiest way to do it is to get an audio card with ADAT i/o for the laptop - this way you don't pay for extra converters. Any computer-based method like LAN/firewire etc will have latency.

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FrancisHarmany · Post by **FrancisHarmany** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 2:34 am

ok. anybody know a good usb adat out device ???

<a href="http://www.esi-pro.com/viewProduct.php? ... &page=1</a>

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astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 3:55 am

...Specifications.
- 1 x ADAT Digital Output (ADAT type1 - 16 bit 8 ch out)

is that the reason why you ask ?
I admit that I don't know the USB specs in detail, but from what I've used it for I'd rather stick with FireWire.

Anyway - an article about 'latency in deepth' recently made me re-consider external boxes.
There's much more serialization and buffering (hence latency) than one would expect at first glance - with only data (clock)rates in mind.

cheers, tom

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sat Jun 10, 2006 4:40 am

Here's a firewire one.. I don't think it's released yet but the projected price was reasonable I think.

http://www.tcelectronic.com/Default.asp?Id=7618