New D8B owner...couple of questions.

[coolout]

Hey guys,

Despite the horde of negative opinions online, I pulled the trigger and bought a used d8b months ago. It was barely used from a home studio, complete with the 5.1 OS, Apogee card, 3 lightpipe cards, 3 FX cards, and all the plugins authorized. Not bad for just $500. The guy even threw in a patch bay and would have sold me the Argosy desk for cheap but I didn't have the room for it.

This particular d8b was purchased at near the end of the product's life cycle (Aug. '03 by the manual). It seems most of the problem units (as least the ones complained about online) were made years earlier. I've been using it nearly every day since December and haven't had a single problem yet. I do have some random questions for you guys though.

1. The light on my d8b cpu's power button flickers. Is this normal or the sign of a (upcoming) power issue?

2. Are any of guys using an usb or firewire audio interface to run multiple (16+) lightpipe streams in/out the d8b? If so, which interfaces? I know it's probably not worth the trouble trying to mix through the d8b, considering my UAD-2 plugs and the power of native computing these days, but I'd like to try it once.

[Crash]

Welcome, sounds like you got a smokin' deal on a decent console.

I wouldn't worry about the flickering power light in the switch. Not that uncommon.

There are lots of guys using interfaces, I am sure someone will chiome in. I am using the classic d8b/HDR combo so I can't tell you much about the different interfaces that folks use for this setup but I would think any interface that uses the light pipe protocol should work. You might be interested in the d8bridge as well that turns the d8b into a controller. There is a section on the forum here for that as well if you are interested in checking it out.

There is a database here that has loads of info. as well for checking out issues and ways to do things.

http://www.sonido-7.com/d8b/index.html

[garrett21allen]

welcome Coolout

that's a good price you got a nice working d8b for
I can never ever get a deal like that.
these guy's on this forum are the best.
and don't mind helping people if they can.
I don't know what I would do without this forum
and the good people on it.

joe allen

[FrankH]

Here's a basic hookup based on your setup using a MOTU 828mk3 as an example.