No Sync with S/Pdif

Flohre · Post by **Flohre** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:15 am

Hi,

tody i wanted to connect my optical S/Pdif with Cubase SX3.
When the Pulsar-Software runs it´´s no problem. But running Pulsar in the XTC-Mode Cubase annot sync the digital input...does anyone know, what the problem is ?
When i run Pulsar as the Master, there is no signal at all...running it in the slave-Mode, there is a signal. ????!!!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 10:45 am

What are you sync'ing it to? S/P-DIF input? Then maybe edit your XTC project (how to can be found here on z) and save it when it's slaved to that input.

raztalove · Post by **raztalove** » Sat May 14, 2005 5:00 pm

I have the exact same problem. Has anyone been able to use their spdif input succesfuly in xtc with cubase sx 3. or any version of cubase for that matter. I have tried with both digital coax and optical and neither have worked. Anyone?

valis · Post by **valis** » Sat May 14, 2005 10:48 pm

Sp/dif input can only slave to the external sync ***via the spdif input***. Ie, even if you are using adat to the same box the spdif is connected to the adat sync won't allow spdif into pulsar to work, you have to set sync to the spdif input. This is unfortunately how the majority of spdif devices work (since that's how the Spdif spec defines it). AES/EBU allows you more freedom and devices (like RME's) that allow you to use the digital i/o as either spdif or AES/EBU don't suffer this limitation. With Creamware you only get AES/EBU with the XLR style i/o loom.

I haven't played with XTC enough to know if Cubase overrides the XTC.pro sync settings (probably not); I would imagine that closing cubase and opening XTC.pro, and setting sync to the spdif input (as atomic suggests) would be worth trying...

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