S/PDIF Out newbie question

Chiguete

Chiguete

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Newbie question: Is the S/PDIF Out always on or do I need to select something so signal goes out from it?
 
I want to connect the AX8 to my M-Audio Fast Track Pro interface thru S/PDIF but I don't hear any sounds :(
 
Yes, you need to set the sample rate of the Fast track pro to 48 khz . I had this problem with my focusrite, setting the sync source to spdif and sample rate to 48 khz(ax8 is fixed to 48khz) fixed that problem.

Also check your
 
Chiguete said:
my what???
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hahaha, sorry . I mean also check your mixes, maybe you are not listening nothing but you have input signal, you could check that in your daw. also check your ax8 output level . I used to use the output level to low to get a signal into mi pc .
 
Do I need to use a DAW to hear myself or can I just connect directly to the interface without the need of the computer/laptop?
 
That depends on the interface. My focusrite could work without a computer, but you need to set the outputs to "listen" the s/pdif input
 
Not woking... starting to think I have driver issues because this M-Audio interface is an old one that they didn't update the drivers for the newer Windows... it has worked so far with the analog inputs but maybe the S/PDIF input dosn't work correctly and now that I am trying it out is that I notice.

Need to do 2 things now: try this out on another computer and try a newer interface that has up to date drivers.
 
FIXED!!! don't know if it was because a driver I downloaded (I had 6.1.10 that was made Jun 20 2013 and I was surprised to find a newer version of it 6.1.11 fron Jan 2016 because they said they erent going to do newer drivers after they sol the company last year) or because I played around with the settings of the interface and hit the Monitor Input option in the DAW but it works now!!!

BTW I deffinetly need to use the DAW to hear the S/PDIF input signal.
 
I use S/PDIF into my MOTU UltraLite and can use it straight to the speakers - no daw and no computer of I want. I know it is not the same interface. I generally use the soft mixer in my computer to get the signal where I want it and I use the H/W vol on the interface to adjust overall volume. Aaaand as someone up the top said - you must be running at clock speed of 48K or it will sound terrible.
 
Arsha.M.P said:
Hi. are you getting good results with your M-audio using S/pdif? Does it work on windows 10? no issues?
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It's not clear, which one of M-Audio interfaces do you have? I use currently unsupported M-Audio ProFire 2626 and S/PDIF works just fine on Windows 10.
 
Arsha.M.P said:
I want to buy a used M audio fast track pro. I was wondering if It works fine with windows 10
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I have a Fas Track Pro and while it "generally" works I must say that it crashes sometimes... it didn't had that problem in W7 or W8, so I wouldn't recomend getting it unless it's a VERY good deal.
 
Arsha.M.P said:
I want to buy a used M audio fast track pro. I was wondering if It works fine with windows 10
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I'd suppose it may work. It seems people had success with the latest drivers on Windows 10. Maybe @Chiguete being an owner of Fast Track Pro could confirm that. But just like my ProFire it is a legacy product and officially unsupported on Windows 10.

Edited: Oops. I'm late :)
 
just one more thing. Is that usable taking into account the crashes? or it crashes during recording and it's unusable?
 
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