SYNCPLATE

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Tue Feb 25, 2003 7:34 pm

Just got A16 today-sounds great.
I have it Wordclocked to Sycnplate,where A16 is master,but I would like to have Syncplate as Master,how is that possible?I attached out of plate to in of A16 but syncplate only comes as slave device under Samplerate settings.
Thx!

kimgr · Post by **kimgr** » Wed Feb 26, 2003 1:44 am

The SyncPlate wordclock output always sends out at whatever samplingrate your using in your project. (Master or slave).

Kim.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:06 am

So how do I make it the master?
A16 doesnt see syncplate's output
Thx!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:54 am

It is one with the dsp card. Set samplerate master/slave in SFP sample rate view for the cards and it's I/O boards.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 12:42 pm

On 2003-02-27 00:54, at0mic wrote:
It is one with the dsp card. Set samplerate master/slave in SFP sample rate view for the cards and it's I/O boards.

So Ineed to set the Pulsar card as the master?
Thx!

at0m · Post by **at0m** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 1:08 pm

Yeah, mostly Pulsar (the computer hosting the sequencer) will be master.

braincell · Post by **braincell** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 2:04 pm

I'm curious as to why you need the sync plate? I use the A16 without it.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Thu Feb 27, 2003 11:38 pm

On 2003-02-27 14:04, braincell wrote:
I'm curious as to why you need the sync plate? I use the A16 without it.

Wanted to test it,and I believe it has higher jitter stability.Don't quote me on that.
I do know Syncplate is designed to go to much higher frequencies

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 1:17 am

even in a noise free surrounding and with a six-figure-$-amount spent on analog equipment you won't be able to hear artifacts due to jitter between a Pulsar and an A16.

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 10:57 am

So your saying forget the syncplate.Do you have more insight into your theory.
I heard optical cables cause scatter rays so I thought BNC would be better clock dependency.
Thx

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Fri Feb 28, 2003 12:09 pm

if the assumption about the quality of optical cables would be true, then what would it help anyway ?
Apply a perfect clock to a corrupted data signal ?
The syncplate is to provide a master clock if there are several digital devices to be kept in sync.
With 2 quality units like Pulsar and A16 there are no problems on the Adat ports to expected.
One of the more knowledgeable studio owners here pointed out that a quality common studio clock source would really improve overall soundquality, but in that case there are more units involved, so jitter becomes more significant.
With an elcheapo soundcard and CD player it's indeed the way you describe it.
Many of them have better analog than digital interfaces

cheers, Tom