Topic: QUESTION:

[c.b.taper]

Can i put 2 sound cards into one computer? i have a ongoing project of moving all my dats onto harddrive. one at a time... i still have 100s to go. so i was wondering if i had two sound cards in 1 pc, could i do 2 dats on two separate programs?

ALSO someone buy my m-auddio firewire 410! please

[F.O.Bean]

i would say its def possible. If you ran one DAT like this:
DAT>WaveLab>WAV and the other :
DAT[DATA Drive on your Mac/PC]>Soundforge>WAV

And I totally wrong or what

[Todd R]

I don't know about the dual soundcard idea, but you should be able to back-up from your dat deck > digital out > digital in to your 722, and then transfer the resulting file from the 722 to your pc.

A little bit extra time as you need to transfer from the 722 to the pc, but a file transfer will only take minutes compared to real-time.  Then you can also do real-time transfers via your soundcard at the same time.

[Gutbucket]

Two sound cards can work.  I've run three different USB sound cards simultaneously.

If you have access to enough DAT players you could do multiple simultaneous real-time transfers- several direct into the computer and two others into your two 722s as Todd suggested.

[heath]

The way I do parallel DAT ingest is simply with a multichannel audio card (I use a RME AES32 card) into a multitrack DAW.  The most simultaneous decks we currently run this way is 12 (cassette) but it would work fine with DAT as long as they are all the same sampling rate at any given time.

[c.b.taper]

thats why we have you around todd. i have no idea why i never thought of the 722 transfer.