dont you need an active 7 pin cable, and switch it to analog to be able to pass the digi signal
yes and no. The active cables have the "analog" and "digital" switch to specify the input. the passive cable doesn't have this switch, but it is easy to work around it. start the "recording" with the 7-pin unplugged, so that it will use the analog inputs, and then once it's going, you can plug in the passive 7-pin, and it will output a digi signal.
thumbs up on that one. worked a treat.
do you guys want to A/B some samples between soundcard and D8 or is this a moot issue?