I have a Trinity equipped with S/P DIF outputs, but when I connect this up to my multitrackers digital I/O ports, it doesn work. What do I need to turn the digital output of the Trinity on?
The Trinity always outputs S/P DIF signals. There is no switch to turn them on/off. This is not a problem but there is a drawback which you are probably now experiencing. Most home and many semi-pro digital devices will only read S/P DIF signals at 44.1Khz, whereas the Trinity has a fixed frequency of 48Khz. This is a royal pain in the neck. The only way round it is to buy a sample rate converter to dither the 48Khz output of the Trinity down to 44.1Khz which your multitracker will digest. We can’t really moan at Korg for this, (well, not much) because sample rate conversion would have added to the price of the Trinity, and the fact that the internal waveforms on the Trinity are all sampled at 48Khz is no doubt beneficial to the quality of the instrument. The ability to output 44.1Khz would have greatly improved the Trinity’ flexibility however. In an interview with Korg by Sound on Sound magazine, before the Trinity was first released, this fixed frequence of 48Khz was acknowledged by
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