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zaboomafoo · May 1, 2008, 11:53 AM

My plan is to stuff 3 audigy cards (or 2 audigy and one live card) into the computer. that gives me 12 inputs. There will be one master card and two slaves which will send their inputs (over spdif) to the master. since audigy (SB0090) has only 3 spdif inputs, that would give me max of 10 separate mono inputs, which will be ok.
There is a thread somewhere here that shows how to connect 3 cards together.

This would give me (all in one):

* 10 ASIO inputs for recording - so I can use this computer as a HD recorder. That would be done by running REAPER and recording 10 ASIO inputs

* a nice 10 input digital (DSP based) mixer, with many outputs (since there are 3 cards). I would control the mixer with some kind of MIDI control surface (working on that now, based on midibox.org project).

* standalone DSP effect box

My goal is to have a standalone HD recorder and mixer in one box. No mouse, no keyboard, no screen. All in and out communication would be done through MIDI. That is why I am looking at the MIDI based meter. It will be easy to build a simple midi device with LCD screen mounted to the computer case which will show the meters and some other information.

Edit: having a DSP / MIDI based meter bridge makes it very flexible: I can switch it between input, post compressor, most EQ, post fader, you name it. Building something like that in analog is way beyond my knowledge

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I think I have all the pieces, basically merging three great projects: kx driver, REAPER and midibox.org into one.

Regards,
Frank

May 1, 2008, 11:53 AM	#6 (permalink)
zaboomafoo DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 23	My plan is to stuff 3 audigy cards (or 2 audigy and one live card) into the computer. that gives me 12 inputs. There will be one master card and two slaves which will send their inputs (over spdif) to the master. since audigy (SB0090) has only 3 spdif inputs, that would give me max of 10 separate mono inputs, which will be ok. There is a thread somewhere here that shows how to connect 3 cards together. This would give me (all in one): * 10 ASIO inputs for recording - so I can use this computer as a HD recorder. That would be done by running REAPER and recording 10 ASIO inputs * a nice 10 input digital (DSP based) mixer, with many outputs (since there are 3 cards). I would control the mixer with some kind of MIDI control surface (working on that now, based on midibox.org project). * standalone DSP effect box My goal is to have a standalone HD recorder and mixer in one box. No mouse, no keyboard, no screen. All in and out communication would be done through MIDI. That is why I am looking at the MIDI based meter. It will be easy to build a simple midi device with LCD screen mounted to the computer case which will show the meters and some other information. Edit: having a DSP / MIDI based meter bridge makes it very flexible: I can switch it between input, post compressor, most EQ, post fader, you name it. Building something like that in analog is way beyond my knowledge . I think I have all the pieces, basically merging three great projects: kx driver, REAPER and midibox.org into one. Regards, Frank Last edited by zaboomafoo; May 1, 2008 at 12:00 PM.