How will the new Audio Recording Automation (ARA) system interface with the hard disk audio storage and retrieval system I am planning to buy?
The short answer is “The SOSS will interface to your hard disk system the same way it interfaces to a tape recorder.” There are many hard audio disk systems available today. Some of them can be controlled by a data link using a serial format, but those formats are generally proprietary. When the Satellite Operating Support System (SOSS) went thorough design, few hard disk systems were on the market and it was obvious that there wouldn’t be a standard way of driving a serial port that could talk to them. So we designed for the lowest common denominator, isolated contact closures that can be used by virtually any analog reel-to-reel, RDAT or hard disk system. When choosing a hard disk system, if you want recordings to be started and stopped by the new SOSS, choose one that can accept contact closures as commands.
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- How will the new Audio Recording Automation (ARA) system interface with the hard disk audio storage and retrieval system I am planning to buy?
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