Firewire 16 channels

[teddy]

Hi everybody,

I don't understand when the H8000 manual said that in firewire there are 16 channels. Because the main input are limited to 8 channels.

Can someone can explain this, because if i can use 16 channels and not 8 in firewire when the signal go out from logic to the H8000 and return to 16 channels input it will be very very very good.

excuse for my french english

[nickrose]

You are correct that the main inputs/ outputs are limited to 8 channels.

The FireWire in/out can also be routed to ADAT and AES11-18, giving a total of 24 sources/destinations. You do not have to use them all.

[teddy]

thanks.

It 's interesting, but a little bit complicated.

Is it possible to plug in firewire my H8000 to my computer, have 16 output from my daw to my H8000 , do the processing for the 16 input, and get the result of the 16 outputs ?

Also, are they yet presets and routing presets that uses this standard configuration ? Because I don't see this in the preset manual.

[nickrose]

teddy:

Is it possible to plug in firewire my H8000 to my computer, have 16 output from my daw

No – you can only process 8 channels from FireWire – you are limited by the number of main inputs and main outputs. The H8000 is essentially an 8 channel machine with 2 engines, rather than a 16 channel machine. Sorry.

teddy:

Also, are they yet presets and routing presets that uses this standard configuration

Again no, because this is NOT a standard configuration. Note that routing presets are described in the User Manual, not the Presets Manual.

[teddy]

thanks.

Is it possible to say to eventide developpers to upgrade the H8000 kernel (i like this word, in french it is a very exciting word) to 16 channels ? A little bit of C++….

it's a joke

[nickrose]

It's the hardware – those guys have no sense of humour.

[pgiaccone]

Hi, I've another question: how many parallel effects can the Eventide H8000FW deploy in 8 channels of input?
i.e.: is the hardware capable to run 8 parallel mono compressors or 4 parallel stereo reverbs?

Thank you,

Piero

[nickrose]

This depends on the size of the effects and the sample rate. At 48kHz, you can run one of (for example) the following 8 channel presets on each of the two DSPs:

3    23    Octal Compressor

3    16    Compressor_8

3    31    8*10 Grafic Eq

3    12    8 Diatonicshifts

6    20    Combdelays 8ch

6    27    LongPanningDelays8

10  32    4 Stereo Verbs

These are just a few of many – you get the picture …

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