Dear SAC Heads,
the last couple of months I did lot's of live gigs with various desks. From Yamaha 01V96 up to Soundcraft Vi6 and Midas Pro06. Beeing a member of the Behringer X32 beta test team, I did lot's of shows with this desk as well. Sadly I did only about five or six gigs with my small SAC rig.
To sum it up, soundwise I get the best results with my SAC rig. Period!
On the other hand, I must confess, that I'm dissapointed with the fact, that there seems to be no further development in the SAC enviroment. And I mean soft- and hardwarewise.
For me, it is annoying that we still don't have a serious hardware controller and that we still have to bugger about with the ADAT crap and ADAT cables, that never have been designed to go "on the road". I'm still waiting for the monitor view and the SAC player. I don't want to be ungreatful, but I would like to know, if there will be any real improvements in 2013???
Concerning remoteable preamps, I know, that Rolf from Appsys is already working on a AES50 to MADI/ADAT converter for the Behringer S-16. This would be truly a step ahead!
I do have three S-16 already, and did some measurements with them:
As you can see, the latency of the S16/X32 is that low, that a combination with a RME MADI card (running with 32 samples) would still be good enough for real time audio.
On the other hand, I really would like to see some serious updates to SAC as well. I would be a shame, if lot's of the potential of SAC becomes idle.
Just sayin'
All the best for 2013!
Christian
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