S/pdif Digital I/o (rca) ? Options

[Xajen]

Please Excuse me if i sound stupid when I ask, what is the deal with S/PDIF digital I/O (RCA), or S/PDIF in general?

Ie, Quality, Channels, etc...

For example, the Mbox from Digidesign offers S/PDIF digital I/O (RCA), how many seperate channels is that, can i assign each channel to record its own channel path?

Ie, hook up a 8 XLR input device that has S/PDIF digital I/O (RCA), route it to the Mbox and have the ability to record 8 seperate channels of pristien audio at the same time? Or is this just a pipe dream?


Xajen

[jasonmaass]

hey man wasssup? s/pdif stands for sony phillips digital interface. What this awesome connection allows you to do specifically with the m box is this.... You can bounce multiple tracks of audio at the same time either to or fro another device that has the same connection. For instance, say you have some other multi track recorder device, such as ADAT, Hard disk etc, instead of bouncing only 2 tracks at a time with the m box you can utilize your s/pdif connection and bounce all your tracks at one time. Also remember s/pdif is a digital connection. P.S. there are 2 types of s/pdif connecters either rca like the m box or optical like the digi 001 or 002 or your ADAT machines....hope this sheds some light....let me know how you make out....later
--jay--