gemini86
Well-known member
This is really wandering into "stop screwing around and just buy a new converter" territory, but there are so many of these machines laying around that I just have to ask.
I own one, and I love the metering, the ease of use, etc. But I only use it for converters. I have a small studio, one bedroom. Only used for tracking one instrument at a time and mixing. While, I generally never never need more than two inputs at a time, I DO need outboard gear IO for mixing. The problem with the Alesis is that it will only do a/d or d/a at one time, with the push of a button. I have an E-MU 1212m card that has two input, so I can use one of them for tracking and one for an effect return, but that only lets me use one compressor, eq, etc. at a time.
Can the digital signal be jumpered somehow, bypassing the switch that enables the d/a? I took the thing apart to see what's going on in there. The converters are all together on their own board in the back, then are sent off to the digital processing board. Looks like the optical receiver/transmitter is on a small, connector-mounted board and has a wired connection going to the main digital board. I don't know much of anything about digital side signal processing. Does anyone have a schematic for these? Any helping this broke, crazy a*hole?
I own one, and I love the metering, the ease of use, etc. But I only use it for converters. I have a small studio, one bedroom. Only used for tracking one instrument at a time and mixing. While, I generally never never need more than two inputs at a time, I DO need outboard gear IO for mixing. The problem with the Alesis is that it will only do a/d or d/a at one time, with the push of a button. I have an E-MU 1212m card that has two input, so I can use one of them for tracking and one for an effect return, but that only lets me use one compressor, eq, etc. at a time.
Can the digital signal be jumpered somehow, bypassing the switch that enables the d/a? I took the thing apart to see what's going on in there. The converters are all together on their own board in the back, then are sent off to the digital processing board. Looks like the optical receiver/transmitter is on a small, connector-mounted board and has a wired connection going to the main digital board. I don't know much of anything about digital side signal processing. Does anyone have a schematic for these? Any helping this broke, crazy a*hole?