MADI-Will It Catch ON
2008-06-17 by HKC
Does anybody have an opinion on this, is it a serious contender to the rather ageing ADAT interface. Even with the new RME Raydat interface it is only possible to have 16 I/O if you want to record in 88.1/96 KHz (and of course half of that again with 192 KHz) and I'm not sure if that's enough for me (and the Mac haven't got room for two Raydats if you also want to keep your UAD1 and your Powercore). At the moment there aren't that many MADI solutions but the option af having 64 I/O (or rather 32 96KHz I/Os) within one card sounds like a possible solution for me. On the other hand I don't neccesarily need to record in more than 44.1 but I have heard people mentioning that their plugins sound better at the higher bandwidth.....and of course there's costumers who just want the bandwidth because they have read about it. I know of some studios who multitrack in 44.1 but use a higher bandwidth for layered recordings. Is this the solution or how do people do this. I mean a standard band recording takes up around 16 tracks without the vocals so I can't see a way of working with my clients without having at least the option of recording 24 tracks at one time. At the moment, and for quite a while now, I have been using a 2.3 G5 and a 9652 which works very well buy eventually I will have to upgrade and I have been reading about people running with a 32 buffer which sounds very sweet to me. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]