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#Name the studio and 1991 film that has digital techniques applied to the sets software
If you are connecting two units together, the simplest thing to do is to set the Clock Source of the receiving unit, to use the ADAT input as its clock source.įor example, if we are using an Apollo interface we go into the Apollo Console software Edit/Settings. To eliminate those you need to make sure all your interconnected units are following the same clock so that all the frames start at the same time. If you don’t, audio may pass but you will get clicks and pops. When interconnecting audio equipment digitally we have to make sure that those ‘frames’ are in sync. Digital audio signals have frames like video and film does. What Is ADAT? Understanding Clocking Is EssentialĪs soon as you need to connect two or more units together digitally, you need to consider ‘clocking’. By buying a multi-channel mic preamp unit equipped with an ADAT output you can take the number of mic inputs you can use with your DAW from 2 to 10. For example, you might buy a small desktop interface with only a couple of mic inputs. The most common application is for interface manufacturers to add ADAT ports to their interfaces to enable you to easily expand the number of inputs of your interface. With the ADAT Lightpipe, the original concept from Alesis of being able to easily expand your studio setup by adding units, rather than having to replace equipment, lives on long after the ADAT recorder became obsolete. This is often why you see multiple Toslink ADAT connectors on digital audio equipment so that by using multiple optical cables the user could maintain the channel count when using higher sample rates.
Using 'sample multiplexing', more commonly known as S/MUX, for short, this system enabled 4 channels at up to 96 kHz, or two channels at up to 192 kHz, down one optical cable. To accommodate higher sample rates the Lightpipe format was modified using ‘bit-splitting’ techniques developed by a company called Sonorus. The original Alesis design supported a maximum of 8 channels of 48K/24bit digital audio. The optical connection format avoids ground-loops, which can cause hum, buzz and other unpleasant audio problems. Other benefits of the ADAT lightpipe format is that it is ‘hot-pluggable’, which means devices do not need to be turned off for plugging in or unplugging, although it is recommended to mute your monitors when repatching as you can get a significant audio spike as the connection is made.
These days it has been shortened to ADAT, formerly the name of the original digital recorders, to refer to the 8 channel digital audio optical format. But Alesis adopted the format to deliver 8 channels of digital audio at 48K/24bit and was christened officially as the ADAT Optical Interface, and more commonly known at the time, as the ADAT Lightpipe. The Toslink format had, until then, been used for carrying the stereo SPDIF digital audio format over optical cables. But what has the ADAT tape recorder got to do with the digital audio optical connector, that we know now as ADAT? One of the features of the ADAT digital audio recorders was that Alesis used the Toslink standard optical fibre cable, which was an even older digital standard invented in 1983 by Toshiba and called the TOShiba- LINK and used rectangular EIAJ/JEITA RC-5720 connectors.