96I/O Simultaneous Bi-directional of all ins/outs?

[Electric Peak]

The Digi spec for the 96 I/O states that it is a 16 channel box. However, it has 8 analog, 8 optical, stereo AES/EBU and stereo SPDIF. On the 001, it is possible to utilize all the I/O ending up with 18 simultaneous bi-directional ins/outs.

Question: Can the 96 I/O utilize all of its ins/outs simultaneously and bi-directionally? If not, does it randomly canel input/output on one of the 8 analog or 8 optical if you do use either AES/EBU or the SPDIF signal paths?

I have searched Digi's site and the DUC and can't find anything on this. Info on this would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

FryB

[Drew Mazurek]

it's a 16 channel box. Yes you can be doing 8 analog ins and outs and 8 digital ins and outs (lightpipe) at the same time. The optical is either spdif or lightpipe so it's either 10 channels or 16.

[Duardo]

Question: Can the 96 I/O utilize all of its ins/outs simultaneously and bi-directionally? If not, does it randomly canel input/output on one of the 8 analog or 8 optical if you do use either AES/EBU or the SPDIF signal paths?

No, you can't use more than 16 ins and outs simultaneously like you can on the 002. It does not randomly cancel a pair of ins and/or outs if you want to use the AES or S/PDIF ins and outs; you choose which ones you want it to take the place of. I believe that you can only use the AES or S/PDIF ins at once, not both, although both sets of outputs are active (but receive the same signal).

-Duardo