Thunderbolt to DigiLink

[Mixchump]

So, Apogee has announced their Thunderbolt-to-DigiLink box for their Symphony system.

http://www.vintageking.com/Apogee-Sy...64-Thunderbolt

Is anything stopping me from buying one of these things, and running my system with the native mix engine and strapping on my existing Digi 192i/o interfaces?

It's basically an HD Native card in a thunderbolt box, right?

Any reason why AVID would NOT want to make a similar product?

I'm sick and tired of hitting the voice wall at 96K where I'm sharing voices between all kinds of things, and stuck with running TDM plugins (ie: AutoTune) that are clearly inferior to their RTAS counterparts...

Anyhow, with my MacPro, I could easily run the entire mix on the CPU, if only I could get my AES/EBU hardware inserts happening, monitoring, etc...

It drives me CRAZY that AVID has handcuffed the ProTools|HD mix engine to the TDM environment, when clearly, the MacPro could run circles around my HD|6 Accell hardware.

[John_Toolbox]

Is the protocol for the symphony system interfaces identical to the HD interfaces? I realize those appear to be the same connectors as digilink, but I don't know that it necessarily means you can plug a 192 into it and have it work. Especially since apogee sells both X-symphony and X-HD cards.

I realize that the apogee converters will work with a PTHD card and be seen as a 192 by pro tools, but I wouldn't assume that this thing will see a 192 as an apogee symphony converter and work the same way as an hd native card.

[LukeHoward]

Originally Posted by John_Toolbox

Is the protocol for the symphony system interfaces identical to the HD interfaces? I realize those appear to be the same connectors as digilink, but I don't know that it necessarily means you can plug a 192 into it and have it work. Especially since apogee sells both X-symphony and X-HD cards.

I realize that the apogee converters will work with a PTHD card and be seen as a 192 by pro tools, but I wouldn't assume that this thing will see a 192 as an apogee symphony converter and work the same way as an hd native card.

Same connectors, different protocol. So you are correct, this doesn't get you a HD native card for free.