[sdiy] ADDA & MIDI over Ethernet/Firewire?

[ASSI]

Hello all,

I'm getting fed up with all the snakes and MIDI cables and the lack of 
free mixer inputs. Has anyone come up with a conversion box that does 
AD/DA and transmits the digital audio over either Ethernet or firewire? 
I wouldn't mind to ditch the protocol and just use the physical layer 
of either. Looking around on various manufacturers' websites I found a 
few suitable converters (of course instead of having six ins and two 
outs as would be ideal they have it the other way around, but hey).

But on the controller side I've drawn a blank, nothing that is 
obviously capable of doing the framing. The idea is to chain the 
converter boxes from the mixer on out, each one grabs it's share of 
slots in a 192kHz frame and on the last box I put a loop which then 
folds back through all the converters to the mixer. For all MIDI I'd 
just subframe one of the slots, which might also be used to control 
direct connections on the loop. So using a 100MBit physical layer gives 
me about 20 channels on a single cable. Is there anything like that 
(mLAN?) either commercial or DIY? If not, any suggestions for 
controllers that are capable of doing this?


Achim.
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