M-Audio Firewire 410 Spdif Issue.

[midnightstepper]

Hi All

 

Running Logic 8 on an Intel iMac 10.5.8. On my old system (G3, Logic 4.7.3, M-Audio Delta 4X4) I would come out of my Mackie console into my dat and then back into the soundcard via Spdif.

 

I don't seem to be able to set this up on this system and was wondering if anyone had any ideas?

 

If I set the 410's sync source to external I get phasing and the Error while trying to synchronize Audio and MIDI message. Dat is set to the corresponding sample rate for the project so that's not the problem.

 

Cheers

[midnightstepper]

Bump.

[chrisrnps]

Are you deliberately doing it that way (slaving your entire system to the DAT and using the 16-bit conversion on the DAT) just to be able to use input channels 3 and 4 on the FW410? Or are you simultaneously recording a copy of your mix onto the DAT while also recording the mix to the computer?

 

What model of DAT deck?

 

Optical ("Toslink") or Coaxial (RCA jacks) S/PDIF?

 

Have you tried running a S/PDIF cable from the FW410 out to the DAT deck and having the FW410 be the master clock source (note that some DAT machines don't allow this - either they'll only sync to digital in when the digital in is also set as the record input, or, as on some of the less-expensive TASCAM models, are always reclocking the input and will never actually properly slave to an external clock).

[chrisrnps]

Also, older versions of the FW410 drivers would "automatically" set the sample rate from an incoming digital source when set to "external" (which didn't work reliably and impacted the stability of the whole unit), but more recent versions require you to manually select the sample rate on the "M-Audio Firewire" control panel software.