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From: derekhobson on 3 Oct 2005 13:33
I'm looking into getting a Pro Tools setup for my G5, and I'm leaning
toward the Digidesign Control 24. If my understanding is correct, there
are 16 mic pres but no A/D converters, so I'd have to get outboard
converters. I could convert them to ADAT litepipe but that only carries
8 channels and the G5 has only one Toslink input. Is there a way I
could get all 16 channels to simultaneously record?

From: kooz on 3 Oct 2005 21:01
Derek -
Spend some time at digidesign.com, especially their products pages and
the User Conference. All of your questions can be answered there.

You may find that the TDM system you're considering is not your only
option in the ProTools world.

-kooz


derekhobson(a)hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm looking into getting a Pro Tools setup for my G5, and I'm leaning
> toward the Digidesign Control 24. If my understanding is correct, there
> are 16 mic pres but no A/D converters, so I'd have to get outboard
> converters. I could convert them to ADAT litepipe but that only carries
> 8 channels and the G5 has only one Toslink input. Is there a way I
> could get all 16 channels to simultaneously record?

From: Lorin David Schultz on 4 Oct 2005 05:53
<derekhobson(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking into getting a Pro Tools setup for my G5, and I'm leaning
> toward the Digidesign Control 24. If my understanding is correct,
> there are 16 mic pres but no A/D converters, so I'd have to get
> outboard converters. I could convert them to ADAT litepipe but that
> only carries 8 channels and the G5 has only one Toslink input. Is
> there a way I could get all 16 channels to simultaneously record?



All Pro Tools systems require a Digidesign I/O unit to work. You can't
use the I/O built-in to the computer at all. That toslink input on the
G5 ain't gonna do you any good.

Unfortunately The Control 24 is not an I/O device -- it's just a control
surface that happens to have 16 mic preamps in the same box. The
Control 24 is just a peripheral for an existing Pro Tools system, not a
substitute core. You're still going to need a Pro Tools system.

The least expensive option is the Digi 002 Rack at about $1200-ish.
http://digidesign.com/products/le/menu.cfm. It has eight A-D onboard,
plus an optical input for another eight channels. Combined with an
eight channel lightpipe AD (like the Frontier Design Tango
http://frontierdesign.com/Products/Tango24 for example) it would give
you sixteen inputs. This is a "native" system that uses the computer to
do all the processing.

The next step up is a TDM system which uses dedicated DSP cards to do
the processing, using the computer as essentially just a user interface,
so you get certain performance guarantees. It's a healthy step up in
price though -- roughly ten grand to start. With a TDM system you have
a variety of I/O interfaces to choose from. More details here:
http://digidesign.com/products/hd/

--
"It CAN'T be too loud... some of the red lights aren't even on yet!"
- Lorin David Schultz
in the control room
making even bad news sound good

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