Well, It Sort Of Works

[billroper]

I've got the new M-20s wired in. Unfortunately, there appear to be some casualties of the operation.

One of the long optical cables seems to be permanently kinked. It won't transmit data on channels 1 and 6. All the other cables seem to be ok, so it could have been worse.

Also, the 3x8 MIDI patchbay seems to be killing wall warts. They work briefly, then die. This suggests to me that it's probably time to get a new 3x8 MIDI patchbay, because until I do, Cubase recording is going nowhere.

On the other hand, I have patched the M-20s in directly, so that should work.

*sigh*

Comments

[jslove.livejournal.com]

How can this be? Optical cables are a serial protocol, like Ethernet; how can channels 1 and 6 be bad and other stuff get through? This would make sense for a snake, with separate wires and connectors for each channel, but if this happens using ADAT optical interconnect, the problem has to be elsewhere.

[billroper]

It's possible that the OPT-8 card has gone bad, but there's no particular reason to suspect that, since it was working fine before this move. The M-20 reads signal (via the digital patchbay) just fine from a different cable, so it's not the problem.

I admit that I should suspect the OPT-8 card, I suppose, but that cable's been fairly mangled, so I suspect it first.