ADAT flown into 001

I buddy of mine recorded some material in a "real" studio with ADATs. Now he wants to rent an ADAT(cuz I don't have one) for a weekend and fly the tracks into LE to add vocals and finish the product with me. I have never worked with ADATs before, so I am looking for some advice on procedures concerning getting his tracks in. When responding, please understand that I went from a $400 4-track recorder to 001/Pro Tools so I do not know much. Thanks

Piece of cake. Just pick up an ADAT fiber cable at any music super-store (very easy to find), plug into the lightpipe interface on the 001's PCI card and the ADAT's optical output, and, VERY IMPORTANT: set the 001 hardware to sync to "optical". You will obviously have to set 8 channels to record from the various lightpipe inputs. You don't have to worry about levels 'cause it's all digital and will come across at the same level. I've done it a number of times. If you're only flying 8 tracks in (rather than multiple ADATs), it's really a no-brainer. ------------------ LW

I'm waiting for the PC version of 001 to come out, but I'm looking to do the same thing, except with multiple passes from the ADAT (16-20 tracks total) I am considering the ADAT-EDIT PCI card to achieve sync, it's not too expensive, and as far as I can tell it should work. Has anybody used this product, with PTLE or any other software?

I have never used the ADAT-EDIT card, but based on the literature I've read(which I don't have in front of me) it can be used to sync multiple passes from ADAT for editing in "your favorite audio program" or something like that. Is that not the case with ProTools?

The ADAT Edit card is not compatible with the Digi001 and Pro Tools LE software. It is an entirely separate beast that comes with its own editing software in addition to ASIO and Windows drivers for all your favorite Digital Sequencers. If you want more info on this bundle of joy, check out: All methods previously mentioned for transfering ADAT(s) into PTLE are great. However, if you need to peform synchronized transfers to and from ADAT(s), you will need to obtain a DataSync2, BRC, MTPAV, Studio 64XTC, Digital TimePiece or other device capable of converting MTC to ADAT sync. Brent

Since the clock of the DataSync is not capable of resolving itself to an external source (Word clock, Slave Clock, Video Ref, etc), it can acheive 1/4 frame accuracy (i.e. the resolution of MIDI Time Code). Assuming you are working with 30fps non-drop timecode, there are essentially 120 values per second that the DataSync can use to get its position and send off to the ADAT. At 48kHz sample rate, this translates into an error margin of +/- 400 samples. Although in reality, the lock time never vaies that wildly (ususally within 10-20 samples), frequecies approaching the Nyquist frequency (i.e. the highest frequency that can be sampled accurately or 1/2 the sampling rate) can start to phase due to cancelation. You can simply use your ears and nudge the tracks to line up in time with the rest of the tracks or use a "two pop" at the beginning of each ADAT tape. Then use this as a reference to line up your ADAT tracks in PT once all the tapes have been transferred. Brent