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The SEKD Prodif 96: The Best PCI Soundcard For Great Recordings
The SEKD Prodif 96 is a PCI soundcard that provides a broad stereo digital Input/Output. It also incorporates a Digital-Analogue converter for the purpose of analogue monitoring. All the digital Inputs are stereo as well as the outputs. These are provided in coaxial form (using phono and XLR) as well as in optical form with the use of Toslink.
The optical sockets of the SEKD Prodif 96 are fixed on the backplate, those of the phono and the XLR are located on a flying cable nine inches long. This cable connects to the soundcard through a 9-pin D-connector. The soundcard incorporate also an integrated digital input that connect the card directly to a CD-ROM player. You will also find a LED on the backlight that remains lit until detection of any digital signal.
You will also find a 20-bit Digital to Analogue converter used for monitoring and which highest supports sample rate is 96 KHz. It connects to a quarter-inches stereo jack socket which is better than a 3.5mm socket even though you may need two different cables to separate the digital from the analogue outputs.
Instead of using a software driver which will put another load on the Processor, the SEKD Prodif 96 makes use of a high speed XILINX 4006 Field Programmable Gate Array chip that helps in configuring the software driver. The SEKD Prodif 96 is an excellent recording device available for all Windows Operating Systems.
In order to record, you need to use any external A-D converter that can handle 24-bit/96kHz operations. An example of such device is the SEKD 2496 A-D/D-A converter. However, you just resolve half of your problem by getting an advance hardware device. The make good use of the SEKD Prodif 96, you need also to get the suitable software. You also need to equip you system with a fast and big capacity hard disk drive.
You can start your recording session when you activate AutoSync since the SEKD Prodif 96 always looks for a suitable input signal and switches over in an automatic manner. The AutoSync is also used to be used to lock up a lot of cards in order to channel the output to the input that is unused.
You can choose to switch the output format between Professional and Consumer with the SEKD Prodif 96.