On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:53 PM, Josh Koffman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Robin Bussell > wrote: > > Does anyone know of an audio playback device that can take > digital audio files on some sort of solid state memory (SD, CF, whatever) > and play back at least three tracks simultaneously? > > This is for firework display use, with stereo music and one track of > timecode in a proprietary FSK-esque format (very tolerant of bad audio > quality apparently) for the firing system. > > No time to make anything I'm afraid so I'm wondering if anyone here > knows of a home studio gizmo or similar that will do the trick. All of th= e > "portastudio" type devices I've seen so far only do single stereo mixdown > output, bah! > > Stereo with separate synthesised SMPTE out would do if need be, as I > believe the desk will ingest SMPTE too. > > Just go to your local music store and look at M-Audio, and other multi-track musician gear. Any of the 'semi pro' desktop music recording systems would work. 4-to 32 channels on your computer. Uses USB or Firewire to link to the In/out device (S/PDIF, balanced, unbalance, SMPTE, etc.) Some of the software editing tools can do 8 channel sound card output with time code. How much money do you have to spend? Low hundreds to thousands. Turnkey. Robert --=20 http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist .