Product Category: Audio Interfaces

Frontier Designs Dakota 24-bit PCI Soundcard

Frontier Dakota is a super-integrated PCI soundcard that provides a complete solution for digital audio, MIDI, and synchronization. No other soundcard offers this level of integration, providing computer connections to audio converters , digital mixers, tape machines, synthesizers, samplers, sequencers, video decks, sound modules, and more. Frontier Dakota supports industry standards, including ADAT lightpipe, S/PDIF, SMPTE, MIDI, and ADAT Sync, and is compatible with today's most popular sequencing and audio editing software. Frontier Dakota has two pairs of ADAT optical ports for 16 audio inputs and 16 audio outputs. Frontier Dakota has S/PDIF digital audio I/O on RCA jacks via a breakout cable that also includes an ADAT 9-pin sync input connector. Dakota also has two MIDI inputs and two MIDI outputs on standard DIN-5 connectors, and an internal CD-ROM digital audio cable for direct transfers of audio CDs.

Audio channels on both Frontier Dakota and Montana support SoDA (SMPTE on Digital Audio). This unique feature lets you use any digital audio input or output for SMPTE timecode. Standard audio channels, in either ADAT optical or S/PDIF format, can be defined as SMPTE I/O ports using the Frontier Dakota control panel... no additional hardware is required. SMPTE signals are detected, decoded, and delivered digitally to external analog converters. Frontier Dakota's hardware supports SMPTE and MIDI timecode chase-lock. This is a great advantage over software-based approaches that rely on real-time audio resampling or repositioning. Hardware-based chase-lock eliminates these sources of audio distortion and frees the CPU for other tasks.

- 2 ADAT optical inputs (16 channels), expandable to 4 inputs (32 channels) when used with Montana
- 2 ADAT optical outputs (16 channels), expandable to 4 outputs (32 channels) when used with Montana
- S/PDIF stereo input from coax, CD-ROM, or either optical input
- S/PDIF stereo output to coax and/or either optical output
- All channels support 16-bit, 20-bit, 24-bit audio
- 44.1 and 48kHz internal sample rate clock generation; locks to digital inputs from 39 - 51kHz
- Dynamically resamples 8, 11.025, 16, 22.05, 24, and 32kHz digital audio to 44.1 or 48kHz for output to digital tape machines or external converters
- 2 MIDI input ports and 2 output ports (32 channels in and out) on standard MIDI jacks
- Expandable to 8 MIDI input ports and 8 output ports + SMPTE I/O when used with Sierra

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