Incorporating VST with the 4k

I’ve been away from my studio for quite a while now, just working on sketches of songs and creating sounds/programs, I have one or two songs that are completely 4k and sound all right but need to be stepped up in production to be valid for a commercial release,

I’m trying to pay off depths, I can’t afford studio time and I don’t like leaving my tracks in someone else’s DAW thus I was on the verge of packing and heading back to my studio in Europe to finish of my trax,

but last night when I was browsing though all the digital mastering suits and VST FX on the web (I know I’m late on this) I realized since we have an ADAT out option on the 4k I could simply invest in & buy the adat board and a cheapo ADAT to USB converter and run my Audio tracks though the digital domain and mix and apply a whole world of great sounding DSP on 10 outs at a time via adat, seeing that most software (even the high end stuff is available on the web..

So here we are babbling on about crappy internal FX when we virtually have VST support!!! All you need is a VST host & it need not be a complete DAW, there are VST host available that are just a plain virtual mixers

I have a question though? there are 10 outs and 2 return on the adapt board does that mean I can be playing my 10 tracks and bounce a stereo mix (ei 2return) back to my MPC for recording/resampling at the same time?

any recommendations for inexpensive adat to usb or fierwire interface?24/96 compatible

thx!!!

EMU 1212 FOR 199 has adat ins with (2) 1/4 ins. I hear alot of praise about them.

Good Call, looks like an exelent value, includes its own mixer progy + dsp, only problem is its onlly 4channels at 24 96...

I think the mpc is also 4 channels at 96/24 via ADAT.
l believe that's part of the ADAT standard...

8 channels at 44.1k & 48.k
And 4 channels at 88.2k & 96.0k

Damn some great shit glide. It has been awhile since someone drops some tips.

ok so the standard is 4 channels at 24 96, hmmm

so how doses that work, is there an intenal clock you have to set up so the card sends out 24/96?

will there be a sample rate conflight if some samples are 16/44 runing through the adat at 24/96?

does a seperate: "adat in" :pop up in the record window input select : so you can select: main out /analouge in/ adat in?

guess its only 8 outs 2 in, no master out on the expansion..
still a bloddy fantastik way to resample & mix multiple channels, one can look at this as 8 channels of a sub group vst mixer, its actually makeing alot of sence to be runnning both analouge and adat exspansion at the same time now...