Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

OK, I have to admit, this is pretty hot...maybe as big as the original ADAT release...

http://www.alesis.com/news/press/pr_hd24.html

If it ships any time soon, I think it'll be a shoe-in for some mag's award for this year.


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LW

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

Like shipping status has anything to do with whether it can win awards or not... http://duc.digidesign.com/ubb/images/icons/smile.gif


But I don't get it... Tascam and Mackie's boxes are over twice as much with no analog or digital I/O. That's quite a feat for Alesis. I can only imagine the worst in terms of sound quality and reliability, but even so... it's less than $2000 street!

Big wows.

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

Pretty cool, although it looks to me like this box doesn't have analog I/O either. But $2k?!
Let's hope it has stable clocks & good jitter specs, or can be clocked externally by something that does, & that it imports files into PT well.

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

As far as I understand the press release it has
- 24 channels of ADAT-optical I/O
- 24 chanels of analog I/O
- wordclock input
built in...

Peter

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

so...what I really want to know is if it will integrate ok with my adat interface (mixplus system on G4)

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Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

It looks like its going to be a great price for all the features it has. Now if there was only a great digital mixer that was as affordable. I wish Mackie would make a smaller version of the D8B.

Jason

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

Anyone know if Alesis has a 'helper application' for reassembling audio packets back to AIFF- for the new ethernet port?

Mac OS?

Sample accurate reassembling?

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

At the show today, Alesis told me today a couple of other interesting points about this unit.

1. It will ship "in the spring of 2001" (shooting for April). They said "Alesis" did not end in "ie", but ended in "is", therefore you could believe their shipping date. http://duc.digidesign.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

2. These things can use the cheap 5400 RPM IDE drives, and don't require the 7200RPM. They use a proprietary method of reading and writing to drives to get 24 tracks out such a drive.

3. There is an ethernet connection in the back of the unit that will allow an FTP transfer of the files in either WAV or AIFF format, although they are not natively in either format.

4. Yep: 24 BALANCED +4 analog ins and outs (TRS) plus 3 pairs of lightpipe; word clock on BNC, and of course, ADAT sync in/out.

5. TWO drive bays in the front. You can make a backup from one drive to the other.

However, no provision for a VGA monitor...like some other products by companies that end with an "ie"... http://duc.digidesign.com/ubb/images/icons/wink.gif

The soon-to-be-released Tascam 32-input digital board might be a good companion to this unit?




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LW

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

LW:

Check the specs on the Tascam DM-24. I think that it's set up to do 24 channels in TDIF. I believe that it will only do 8 channels of lightpipe without extra cards.

Re: Alesis 24 track ADAT at NAMM?
 

Mr Larry,

Do you have any idea what is up with the 10base TX ?

I mean they certainly aren't going for speed. Control messages? Tape BU? Editing system?

Also. They don't mention cascading units. But, I see Adat sync in & out and they do mention "compatible w/ existing Adats" I'm thinking BRC here. Do they cascade?

Internal 96k resolution for a 96k Console?

Radar II is like $25 Gs...and that is for 12 tracks @ 96k.