
I mean, see for yourselves.Īnd now we come to the part of the project that gets really interesting. That being said, the control GUI looks oh-so-very-90's-ish. The "transplant" succeeded uneventfully, and after installing the drivers, as expected (or at least hoped), the thing works just fine.

On the bright side though, that was a bit of a non-issue, in fact - since the Konnekt 8 i had scavenged the Dice II chip from, as described in an earlier blog post here, i figured i wouldn't be needing the services of the TSB41AB2 (which i knew to be good) that was on that particular board, so. Sadly, i had run out of brand new ones (although there's a few in my Mouser shopping cart with my name on'em). Instead of the entire all-encompassing board.įirst step was, obviously, swapping out the Firewire interface chip. Overall yield that badly - you only need to replace a smaller sub-board, Less costly (you can fit more copies onto the same panel), and ifĪnything goes wrong during assembly or whatever, it won't affect the Signals from the Dice II chip (200-some-odd balls), but the rest of the circuitry can do FairĮnough, i suppose - you need at least four layers to fan out all the

The unit's made up of several smaller circuit boards. The sort of "added bonus", one might say, were the gain adjustments for the 8 analog (mic/line) inputs.īefore we "get into the meat of'er" (sorry, just can't shake AvE's influence.), how's about a bit of a going-over, hmm? Yes? I thought you'd agree.

First, because i knew it was based on the TC Applied Technologies Dice II chip, and as such, should have flexible enough mixing / routing options second, due to the ADAT inputs available.
