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« Last post by reviver on June 21, 2022, 04:34:42 PM »
Thanks for the responses. My problem is with new system item and only this item: Digidesign ADAT Digital Interface. Otherwise, my 1996 Session 8 DAW works fine, running on my Win98 PC, which is also solid. The issue is not with my i5 PC because I'm not using that for Session 8. That's for my current Studio One 5 DAW, which is working perfectly. The clocking issue I mentioned before is a 256x audio (slave) clocking issue that manifests itself in 2 (independent ?) ways: 1) The ADAT interface won't lock to an external 256x master clock. It is stuck on it's internal rate, which is ~500 ppm high in freq. Regardless, all downstream devices (882 Session 8 I/F and the Focusrite 18i20 I/F) lock to this drifted clock fine. 2) The optical channels received on the 18i20 are in the wrong locations. Hence, my comment earlier about clocking issues. During playback, Session 8 audio tracks #1, 3, 5 and 7 all end up on optical 1 and 2 simultaneously. Similarly, all Session 8 tracks #2, 4, 6 and 8 all end up on optical 5 and 6 simultaneously. Optical 3, 4, 7 and 8 have no activity. One more thing. In Session 8's Configuration window, there are 3 choices of clock source: ADAT, Analog and External SMPTE. The ADAT check box is dead, not available. This concerns me. The ADAT interface manual says NOT to ever select Analog when using the ADAT I/F. It suggests either ADAT or Ext. SMPTE. So naturally I picked SMPTE. Anyway, thanks for listening. I'm still debugging.