Kona 2 & analog audio in 5-6 weeks

[Bob Zelin]

you can buy a K box RIGHT NOW for your Kona 2, and get 2 channels of analog audio out of it RIGHT NOW for $299.

If you have ANY digital VTR, like a J-3, J-30, Beta SX, Digi Beta, etc. you can use SDI embedded audio. And if you are trying to use an Analog Beta VTR with the Kona 2, and that’s why you want the ADA4 – well, that’s up to you, but as has been discussed on this forum 10 million times, you are probably better off with an AJA I/O LA for this application.

Bob Zelin

[Jeremy Garchow]

I did notice that there’s now an analog choice in the audio tab of the kona control panel with the install of latest drivers, but the ada is a small stand alone a/d/d/a audio converter. I was wondering what was up the sleeves of aja giving us an analog audio in option on the K2

You can read about the ada4 converter here:

https://www.aja.com/ada4.htm

Jeremy

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[Jim Blokland]

Anyone have an idea what this convertor is going to list at?

Thanks, JIM.

OSX.4.1
Dual 2.7 G5
3.5 GB RAM
Radeon X800 XT
Kona 2 / K-Box

[Donato M. rondinelli]

Hey Bob,

I have the KBOX. RCA will not work for me, I need XLR.

SDTI would be nice but I’d have to convert all 10 decks & a router. I got a price of $30k for that conversion. Right now I’m using SDI & analog balanced audio to go to all the machines.

The I/O looks good but I have 3 more FCPs to add to our facility in the next two months. I’d rather not spend the $9k if I don’t have to.

With Avid, I’ve never had these situations because you can’t choose anything other than how much RAM do you want. This is all new territory. Just trying to figure this all out & be a good steward of God’s money. The problem is we have a big, little setup here and making 1 decision effects a whole lotta other things

Thanks for your input. I’ll figure it out.

-dMR

[Bob Zelin]

Donato –

Don’t use AVID as an excuse. AVID, to this day, does not support embedded SDI audio with the AVID Adrenaline HD (makes it kind of tough to use a Panasonic AJ-HD1200A VTR with an AVID !). The AVID DS (Softimage DS) was the first product to recommend the M-Audio Flying Cow, way before the original Digital Voodoo card, so there is NOTHING WRONG with the Flying Cow, even to this day. For $289, it is an excellent product, and you can get what you want right now. AVID eventually tied in with Merging Technologies who made the Sphynx, which was an ADAT to Analog or AES converter. This was AVID’s answer for a long time, until the Nitris box came out.

I still don’t understand why you can’t take the RCA outputs of the K Box into your mixer, and take the balanced outputs of the mixer, and feed whatever you want.

I just had a conversation with Nick at AJA about using the AJA HD10AM audio embedders and de embedders, specifically for the AVID Adrenaline HD, so I can use the Panasonic AJ-HD1200A VTR.

Bob Zelin

[Donato M. rondinelli]

>>>Don’t use AVID as an excuse.
I’m not. SDTI was never a thought. I only mentioned Avid to say that I’m not used to configuring your own system with different cards & boxes.

>>>I still don’t understand why you can’t take the RCA outputs of the K Box into your mixer
You don’t know my engineer!

Thanks for the help. From reading your other posts sound like you got a handle on all this.

-dMR

[Bob Zelin]

Donato writes –
>>>I still don’t understand why you can’t take the RCA outputs of the K Box into your mixer
You don’t know my engineer!

REPLY –
But I do know your engineer. He is the same engineer that can’t deal with BNC AES/EBU audio when everything else is XLR (I never used to need those Canare transformers). He is the same engineer that insists on using XLR to XLR cables to plug into the Mackie XLR inputs (and gets the distorted input), and then says “in the old days (when they charged $10,000 for a mixer), they used to use XLR’s for audio inputs on mixers, not those stupid 1/4″ TRS plugs”. He is the same engineer that wants zero audio level to say zero, and not -14, -18, -20, and doesn’t want 0 PPL to mean distortion (“hey, I like those VU meters with the +3VU readings on them”). He is the same old school engineer who is only new school in the fact that he forgot how to use a soldering iron. I know him well.

Bob Zelin