I have a TC M5000 I'd like to run with vegas. I have tons of adat I/O's spare on my PC and notice the M5K has some lightpipe I/O on it. Are these ADAT? What do I need to do to run these? Im running my spare SPDIF into a Eventide DSP4000 so I dont have spare for the TCM5K
There are 2 kinds of lightpipe connections.
1. Toslink-8channel
2. Spdif-2 channel
Toslink is like cold mentioned, the same as ADAT lightpipe. This connection runs 8 outputs, or 8 inputs, there usually are 2 available on a device, one that says input and the other says output. You cannot run the spdif 2 channel type into the toslink. Some devices like the Echo Layla has this lightpipe connection, where you can change it between toslink mode(8channel) or spdif (2channel) mode, which is usually switched through the driver on your PC. The spdif lightpipe connections are the same data format as Coax/RCA spdif type digital connections. If you have 1 device that is spdif lightpipe and another device that is spdif coax type, you can connect them, but you will need to buy a seperate small adapter, that will convert coax spdif to lightpipe spdif.