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APOGEE RELEASES NEW ADAT8+ INTERFACE CARD Allows Trak2 to connect to Nuendo, Logic etc at 96 kHz
Santa Monica, CA, August, 2002 —
Apogee Electronics,
the leading manufacturer of award-winning external digital audio conversion
equipment, has released an updated ADAT interface card for users of
its popular Trak2 2-channel mic pre/conversion system.
The ADAT8+ card is the latest in Apogee’s line of AMBus interface
cards that allow Apogee’s AD-8000 series and Trak2 to connect
to almost any digital audio source or destination. The new card replaces
the original ADAT card and handles sample rates up to 96 kHz.
The latest version of the ADAT lightpipe audio format and the ADAT8+
AMBus card both support 24 bit I/O. However, the standard ADAT format
only supports sample rates up to 48 kHz. To overcome this limitation,
the ADAT8+ card additionally includes the Sonorus S/MUX protocol, which
allows sample rates of 88.2 or 96 kHz to be carried via multiple optical
“light pipe” interconnects. This mode utilizes two optical
connectors for input and two for output in order to achieve eight channels
of I/O at 88.2 or 96 kHz. The eight channel signal is essentially split
into two pairs of four channels, one down each cable, and can be thought
of as “double-wide” for optical.
ADAT and S/MUX are standard on a number of digital audio I/O cards,
notably the RME 96/52 PCI card and the RME Hammerfall DSP PC (PCMCIA)
card. These cards, used in conjunction with the ADAT8+ card, allow an
Apogee Trak2 to connect to a PC or laptop running many of the major
native or host-based digital audio workstation applications, such as
Nuendo, Logic, Digital Performer, Cubase, or any application that supports
PCI or PC cards that include ADAT-S/MUX support.
The ADAT8+ is shipping now, with a US MSRP of $495.
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