Once a week I plan to report on various threads on the Digidesign User Conference that have caught my eye in the last week or so.
Pro Tools V8 with SSL Delta Link MADI HD Nasher asked….
hello, has anyone out there used SSL Delta Link MADI HD interfaces with Pro Tools V8 ? V7.x works strait away but V8 has bad audio (distortion etc.
The SSl Delta Link boxes enable you do do away with Digidesign interfaces and simply connect the Digidesign cards and provide MADI I/O and save you a packet of money buying loads of 192 interfaces.
It would appear to not be a simple solution and some users are reporting all is OK whilst others are experiencing problems.
One solution offered by Eric Seaberg was…
We’ve got two of them on our SSL C200 to ProTools HD4 supplying 128-I/O both directions. It works great, BUT after installing 8.0 you MUST confirm the settings for DeltaLink. Do you have the manual? Look for the page that shows you how to ‘toggle’ settings on the ‘analog out’ page in the hardware settings.
If you want more info then read the thread here.
PT 8.0.3 Pre Release For Snow Leopard This started off being a comment that the pre-release version was out but very quickly got into a discussion about the future of the Legacy Port on the back of Digidesign interfaces.
This is because as well as announcing the end of Power PC support with v8.0.1 Digidesign have also announced that…
“The following items are no longer supported with Pro Tools 8.0.3pr:PowerPC-based Macs
Mbox (original version)
Expansion|HD Chassis
The following legacy audio interfaces:
888|24 I/O
882|20 I/O
1622 I/O
24-bit ADAT Bridge I/O”
As Snow Leopard doesn’t run on Power PC machines that made sense but the dropping of the Legacy I/O units has come as a big shock as Digidesign didn’t realise how many users were using the Legacy Port and interfaces like the 888 to get extra I/O at low cost.
Eric Lambert asked…
I’m using legacy ports on 192s and 96s to connect to 4 legacy interfaces for digital reverbs.Can anyone confirm that the legacy ports are either functional or not functional?
Digi ceasing to “support” legacy ports is one thing – ProTools ceasing to work with legacy ports would be crippling for me.
Digidesign Tech Support then replied…
They are currently non-functional in 8.0.3PR.
Although it is not clear what “they” are. Are they all the interfaces or the legacy port itself?
However users have reported that the Core Audio application in 8.0.3 is improved which is good news although some are still not satisfied.
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