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The S/PDIF I/O on the Saffire Pro 24 is stereo. The Optical is an 8-track ADAT input. The use case for using the S/PDIF I/O would be for using a digital stereo source or destination. You could use put an outboard digital effects processor in that loop, or say, get audio from a separate digital recorder into your computer, or bounce a stereo mix out to a ...

There is no benefit to connecting your audio interface to your computer via S/PDIF if you can already make a good Firewire connection. Some additional detail: The big problem with S/PDIF is that it lacks any form of flow control. That means that the sender sends bits out, and the receiver receives them. There is no way for the receiver to request a ...

How well does this type of interface work between a (low end) PC sound card and a "prosumer" mixer (Yamaha LS9-32)? In my experience, coupling things together via S/PDIF is hit and miss. If both the sender and receiver can't find a sampling frequency and bit depth that they agree on, it isn't going to work. For example: I could run S/PDIF out from my ...

Digital is digital, so if you are using an optical cable between your sound card and sound system, you should be fine. But don't trust me, grab a S/PDIF cable and hook it up. How does it sounds? There are two main reasons for using external sound cards, neither of which apply to your situation. External sound cards allow you to isolate the analog signal ...

You can't connect them with an ordinary audio adapter like one might expect, because the signals are fundamentally different. Your computer speakers expect an analog audio signal, but S/PDIF is a digital format. So you'll need some kind of device to accept digital S/PDIF in and translate it into analog audio out. I wouldn't know what to call them if I were ...

This is a bit of an adventurous idea: try to set the LS9 as clock master and both computers as slave, split the S/PDIF with a well-shielded passive splitter and feed it to both computers, and just don't use the actual audio in computer 1.S/PDIF is definitely not meant to be used this way, but it might still work.