#Screenflick with external imterface software

Simple USB soundcard devices generally don't have much in the way of digital input/output ports. Obviously with that scenario, you feel completely different under your bluejeans. We don't want your girlfriend to find out you are wearing her panties. Are you wearing the correct underwear? Don't answer that.

#Screenflick with external imterface software

And software is as personal to one's self as their choice of underwear is. Other software will make the corrections for you automatically. Sometimes one needs to compensate for these delays in their software, manually. Going from analog to digital and digital to analog can introduce level differences and distortions. And having digital inputs and outputs is a completely faithful way to transfer from one piece of equipment or medium to another, flawlessly, in a lossless way. You're only transferring ones and zeros in precise mathematical methods. That doesn't happen in the land of digital. You are basically confusing numeric digital transfers in the same realm as the degradation that comes from dubbing from one tape recorder to another. Any recommendations or pretty much any brand name converter should be good enough ? Although the soundcard would have to be coax because if its optical and then I convert to coax it defeats the purpose of what I trying to do because optical is already converted from 'coax' so to speak (electric to light). Don’t know why I didn’t think about that. Part of this is also about doing a test to determine which of these two interface transmits the original content from the source faithfully, and if it does not then why.īut yes getting a good converter is certainly an option. The choice for multiple inputs was driven by the need to interface with devices that may or may not have one or the other input. Especially the hardware, and that’s why I came to this forum for this question as you guys might have a wider view of product options than on a typical consumer audio forum. So while not exactly what you do about music and recording per se, its still more or less the same thing. Yeah I have a turntable (Thorens TD-165) and a R2R recording machine too (Pioneer RT-707). I build and/or improvise speakers, amps, dacs – for fun - or perhaps just chasing the desire for a real and good sound of music. I am not a recording engineer in a studio but I am a diy audio enthusiast.

I wasn’t sure how much boring detail to put into my first post so here goes – No, I am not going to use both inputs simultaneously! One at a time only. A number of computer motherboards these days have coax S/PDIF inputs, so you may not even need an external sound card or audio interface. If you have one of those you can choose a standard sound card that has either the optical or coaxial S/PDIF input and then you can use either type of source device. I have a couple of each direction for the odd times I need to connect up random S/PDIF units. You buy the direction you need and they cost only a few $. These are the size of a matchbox (plus a wall-wart power unit). If it's because you have devices that have different sorts of S/PDIF digital outputs but you do not need to record more than one at a time, then the easy solution is a coax-optical or optical-coax converter. If it's to record two stereo digital inputs at once, you have the problem of synchronizing the sources so that they can be correctly recorded, as the sound card can only lock to one source or the other. I'd have to kill you.Ĭan you tell us why you need both inputs? But these are only in specialized applications and if I told you what and how I was using all this stuff. Though they do get utilized sequentially. Maybe instead of asking us about a non sequitur use of a piece of equipment it would be better if you just tell us what you're trying to do? While I use all of my digital and analog inputs and outputs, I don't use them at the same time simultaneously. Why do you need both? You're not listing any other equipment? Are you sure your car doesn't need Regular and Premium together? Do you play both acoustic and electric guitar, simultaneously? Drums and keyboard at the same time? No I didn't think so.

Though there is probably something out there that comes close for you but probably not in that $200 range. And it has 8 analog inputs/outputs along with 24 tracks of TA-SCAM TDIF & 24 tracks of ALESIS ADAT, Optical and coaxial SPDIF. So with the computer, it was a couple grand. And the device was over $700 10 years ago. Unfortunately, it requires a desktop computer with a PCI slot. I have a unit that does both of what you want. There is nothing wrong in wishing to go to the moon for $200 though, perhaps a little impractical at that price.