F Bouncing Tracks While Outputting To Ai-1 - Alesis AI-1 Reference Manual

9. Use the UP/DOWN buttons to select the AI-1's Destination Rate
(48K or 44.1K). This determines the output sample rate of the AI-
1.

3.2F Bouncing Tracks While Outputting To AI-1

The digital output routed from ADAT to the AI-1 will always be
active, whether DIGITAL I/O is turned on or off. However, if
DIGITAL I/O is on and "ADAT" has been selected as the digital
input, you are still capable of performing track bouncing among
your ADATs. However, the tracks selected for output to the AI-1
must be the same or higher than the highest numbered track
selected as source or record enabled. For example, if you have three
ADATs (24 tracks) and you wish to output tracks 15 and 16 (from
ADAT #2) through the AI-1 to an AES/EBU device, it is still
possible to simultaneously bounce digital audio between ADAT
tracks 1 and 14.
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The reason for this restriction has to do with the fact that there is a
single 8-channel digital audio bus. Each ADAT can either be
sending its own tracks out on the digital bus, or "echoing" what it
receives on its digital input. The digital connections of the slave
units are serial (i.e. the units are chained together with unit #1's
digital output connected to unit #2's digital input, unit #2's digital
output connected to unit #3's digital input, and so on). When you
have an ADAT become a source so it outputs its tracks on the digital
bus, any other ADAT before it in the digital bus chain that is
transmitting its tracks will not be routed to the ADATs connected
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