A Digital Card
The PCI E-MU 1010 card is exclusively digital. It has coaxial S/PDIF inputs and outputs that can be configured to professional mode in order to send and receive AES/EBU data via an adaptor cable. They can also be used as a Word Clock source for synchronization purposes. Operation at up to 96 kHz is possible, and the sockets are deactivated if you work at a sampling rate of 192 kHz. For the optical S/PDIF, the two TOSLINK connectors can be used as ADAT or S/PDIF links. In ADAT mode, the classic eight 24 bits/48 kHz or four 24 bit/96 kHz channels are available, or you can have two 24 bit/192 kHz channels. This is a huge expansion of the capacities of the 1820.
To all of this, they have added a Firewire port which is not an audio port but can be used to connect an external hard drive, a CD writer or a similar piece of equipment. It can also be used for digital video.
