Anyone have experience using ADAT to extend their Focusrite Scarlett 18i20 (or similar devices)?
I can buy a used Focusrite Saffire PRO 40 for about 60Euro and wanted to use it to extend my Scarlett 18i20 to get a total of 16 Mic inputs, but I don’t have any experience with ADAT and would prefer not to buy something that’ll turn out to be a 60Euro brick.
An older Ardour discussion that includes ADAT is found here:
https://discourse.ardour.org/t/focusrite-18i20-and-octopre-adat-connection/105897
Kernel with better Focusrite support is found here:
https://github.com/geoffreybennett/linux-fcp
edit - if you got 6.14 or newer kernel it already has the drivers it seems:
Upstreamed Big 4th Gen Scarlett support Latest This release updates the FCP driver (supporting Scarlett 4th Gen 16i16, 18i16, and 18i20) to the version accepted upstream in 6.14.
Thanks :-)
Was about to post the same in Ardour forums