I got a Delta 1010 I/O box with no card at the thrift store for basically free, my first plan was to strip it for parts but now that i have it apart i'm starting to think that it should be easy enough to just convert to an ADAT I/O box.
Problem: i know little to nothing about working with digital audio electronics in practice, so i'm looking for a little guidance.
The way the box is built is as follows:
-Mainboard with PSU, MIDI, data interface, W/C I/O and DAC section
-Daughterboard sandwiched on top with ADC section
The way the board is sectioned up it seems to me that it should be easy enough to literally saw off the DAC/Power portion, keeping that, and adding a new board, using CoolAudio V1401/1402 chips. On paper, i think it would be as easy as tracing back the digital I/O pins from the AD/DA section and simply hook them up to the 140x, and adding a clock since i assume the 1010 system originally relies on the PC card or an external clock, could it really be that simple? Or am i missing something? I would also like to retain the external W/C I/O, could i simply add a switch to change between an internal clock and the BNC contacts? Or is it more complicated than that? The A/D section uses AKM AK5383VS converters and the D/As are AK4393VF. Could someone explain to me what MCLK and BICK are? Do all of these need separate clock signals at their respective frequencies or is this handled internally?
Here are some photos of the boards in question:
Problem: i know little to nothing about working with digital audio electronics in practice, so i'm looking for a little guidance.
The way the box is built is as follows:
-Mainboard with PSU, MIDI, data interface, W/C I/O and DAC section
-Daughterboard sandwiched on top with ADC section
The way the board is sectioned up it seems to me that it should be easy enough to literally saw off the DAC/Power portion, keeping that, and adding a new board, using CoolAudio V1401/1402 chips. On paper, i think it would be as easy as tracing back the digital I/O pins from the AD/DA section and simply hook them up to the 140x, and adding a clock since i assume the 1010 system originally relies on the PC card or an external clock, could it really be that simple? Or am i missing something? I would also like to retain the external W/C I/O, could i simply add a switch to change between an internal clock and the BNC contacts? Or is it more complicated than that? The A/D section uses AKM AK5383VS converters and the D/As are AK4393VF. Could someone explain to me what MCLK and BICK are? Do all of these need separate clock signals at their respective frequencies or is this handled internally?
Here are some photos of the boards in question:
