EVO 16 as an ADAT?

[RobinC]

My son is doing a Music Technology A level. He's also a drummer and part of the course is to multi mic and record a drum kit

My main interfaces are a Motu 828es and 16A linked together with an ethernet cable, I record mainly synths and vocals so have been able to get by on the two Mic Pres that I have

I have an aging Behringer ADA8200 that has largely been loaned out to music friends. A couple of the Mic Pres seem to have become a bit dodgy on it.

So I've started to look at a replacement.

I was looking at ra efurbished Clarett Octopre but then noticed Audient EVO 8SP which is a bit more in my budget range

But then noticed the EVO 16 which is an interface, the price is more or less then same as the 8SP

Can I use the Evo 16 just as an ADAT input into my Motu 828es? Whilst I can't really envisage ever using it as an interface having that flexibility may occasionally be a bonus. Also having a headphone socket on it I presume I can send audio from my Motu setup via ADAT into the Evo 16 so I can give my son a headphone mix, we've done that using the outs on ADA8200 into an evening more aging Roland VM3100 mixer

[Moroccomoose]

There is the EVO SP8 which is intended as an ADAT extension to the EV0 16 (or any ADAT extension) but with only £10 difference, for the added functionality of the 16, I couldn't understand why you'd get an SP8.

I asked the question to Audient if 3 EVO 16 could aggregate through ADAT , in the same way as 1 EVO16 and 2 SP8s but never got an answer.

Stu.

[Drew Stephenson]

Can I use the Evo 16 just as an ADAT input into my Motu 828es?

This would suggest you can: https://support.audient.com/hc/en-us/ar ... +apollo+x8
Obviously you'll need to connect it up first to configure it but it should subsequently work as an 8 channel pre-amp and converter.

[RobinC]

Oh good spot. Thank you. Looks like it is going on the possible list