exactly Sampo - the Devil in the detail is why I am hoping someone will get back to us who has used one. I asked on their forum if you could definately set up a 24 channel interleaved (or 24 mono) files to play back to discrete channels on a loop. He assured me it could - then a couple of posts later suggested I download their UTool software just to make sure......
On 1 July 2017 at 08:02, Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote: > On 2017-06-28, Marc Lavallée wrote: > > But a 24-channel RPI based solution would be much more difficult to >> integrate and would still cost over $400, which is about the same price >> than the uTrack24 [...] >> > > I wasn't aware of that one before now. So I have to fold: you can't beat > something like that if it does *half* what it's supposed to. Especially > since they promise you can gang them upto four units at a time. > > I'd advise a modicum of caution, however. I mean, they never say you can > beam all those channels off the thing in real time, they don't talk a whole > lot about doing simultaneous A/D and D/A at the same time, and even the > fact that you can only get the full 24 channels at a reduced sample rate of > 48kHz (only 8 at the full 96kHz one) took a bit of digging. Their customer > service, while well-meaning, also doesn't seem to be the most technically > minded or most connected to the resident engineer. I couldn't get a clear > synch guarantee for the hardware of the like we'd have to have for HOA > and/or WFS work. So, there might yet be a devil or two in the details. > > But still, you are right. Both the price point and the specs of that thing > are *insane*. If they do even *half* of what they claim, there's just no > possible way you can beat it by building your own. Even a well-regulated > power rail for your converters could eat up half of an amateur's budget. > Jesus... :D > -- > Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - de...@iki.fi, http://decoy.iki.fi/front > +358-40-3255353, 025E D175 ABE5 027C 9494 EEB0 E090 8BA9 0509 85C2 > _______________________________________________ > Sursound mailing list > Sursound@music.vt.edu > https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, > edit account or options, view archives and so on. > -- Augustine Leudar Artistic Director Magik Door LTD Company Number : NI635217 Registered 63 Ballycoan rd, Belfast BT88LL -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20170701/695d4a23/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound - unsubscribe here, edit account or options, view archives and so on.
