A few interesting discoveries today

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areptiledysfunction
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A few interesting discoveries today

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First of all, the Pulsar II midi driver seems to want to go to war with the USB midi driver of the Korg PadKontrol. Not a deal breaker for me and I'll probably suss this eventually, but it's something good to know.

Secondly, it seems that the sync plate will not recognize WC from an AES signal from a Mytek clock sent to a Lucid GenX-6 and then distributed via the BNC connectors. From what I have been able to discern, it wants to see the sample rate directly from the WC source, not converted AES. Again this is not a huge issue but I thought it was interesting as all of my other studio gear gets along just fine with converted/distributed AES as a clock source.

Now a question..........I've got an XLR>RCA adapter on the AES output of my Plus plate sending the audio output via this cable to the s/pdif input of a Benchmark DAC-1. The DAC-1 shows a solid lock and I'm not hearing any dropouts or other artifacts but the AES light in the Pulsar samplerate window isn't lit steadily. It almost seems to be pulsing with the tempo of the song during playback. Is this nomal? Is there some control panel that will allow me to adjust the voltage?

Thanks......now back to the lab.......
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Post by darkrezin »

Not sure what motherboard you've got but on my system I use a padkontrol and a behringer BCF2000 (both on USB) with no problems. It's an Nforce3 motherboard.

The indicator lights on the Samplerate window are only for indicating inputs as far as I know... what's actually connected to that AES input?
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darkrezin wrote:Not sure what motherboard you've got but on my system I use a padkontrol and a behringer BCF2000 (both on USB) with no problems. It's an Nforce3 motherboard.

The indicator lights on the Samplerate window are only for indicating inputs as far as I know... what's actually connected to that AES input?
Ahhhh..............*the input???........DOH!!!!"........errrr........actually, I'm not even sure what it's connected to. It's hooked up to a digital patchbay with a bunch of other stuff and I haven't configured the software control panel for it yet..... :oops: Of course the *input* would be showing a digital lock.......or not in the software, instead of the output. The input of the DAC-1 (which was connected to the AES output of the Pulsar II) was showing a digital lock so that explains everything. Sorry for the dumb question. Yesterday was a very long day. Mobo is an ASUS A8V-Deluxe.

I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8NS Ultra 939 (NForce 3 chipset) mobo here that I'm going to build a DAW around as soon as I get the time.

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Post by musurgio »

DJ,
I am doing the same thing, almost.
I send AES clock to spdif pulsar in.
Pulsar sees this clock so it light its spdif input then letting pulsar sync from this input becomes slave to it.
So I guess this clocking might be sufficient...
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Dimitrios
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