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Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide
Connect the Symphony 64 PCIe card to Apogee Interfaces
Because of the wide range of Apogee interfaces that may be connected to your Symphony 64 card, the details
of how hardware interfaces connect to the cards vary according to the specific set of interfaces in use. Please
consult the list of supported hardware combinations per Symphony 64 port beginning on page 21, and find the
combination page that corresponds to your set of Apogee interfaces.
If you have more than four interfaces to connect, distribute them across multiple Symphony 64 ports so that the
group of interfaces connected to each port is a supported combination. For example, if you have 4 AD-16Xs and
1 DA-16X, connect the first AD and the DA as shown on page 22, and connect the remaining ADs as shown on
page 25.
2 AD-16Xs, 2 DA-16Xs page 5
1 AD-16X ,1 DA-16X page 22
1 to 4 Rosetta 800s page 23
1 AD-16X, 1 DA-16X, 1 Rosetta 800 page 24
1 to 2 AD-16Xs page 25
1 to 2 DA-16Xs page 26
1 Rosetta 800, 1 AD-16X pages 27-28
1 Rosetta 800, 1 DA-16X pages 29-30
Many of the hardware combinations which include AD-16Xs and DA-16Xs support the interfaces’ “Standard” and
“Advanced” routing modes. Please see page 8 of the AD-16X User’s Guide and page 7 of the DA-16X User’s
Guide for an explanation of these routing modes.
Hardware Combination Example Page
An example page, the hardware combination of 2 AD-16Xs and 2 DA-16Xs, is shown at right. Each page is
organized into the following sections:
• Summary - A short paragraph describes the unique characteristics of the specific combination shown.
• PC-32 Connections - This diagram depicts the order of PC-32 connections for the specific combination.
In general, the Master PCIe card’s
Channels 1-32
port is connected to the first unit’s
Main
port using
the 3 meter PC-32 cable included with the Symphony 64 card; the first unit’s
Thru
port is connected to
the second unit’s
Main
port using the 0.5 meter cable included with the X-Symphony option card, and
so on until all depicted connections are made.
PC-32 cables lengths of up to 30 meters between the Mac and hardware interfaces are supported at
sample rates of 44.1-96 kHz. Lengths up to 5 meters are supported at sample rates of 176.4-192 kHz.
Always use the 0.5 meter cable between hardware interfaces.
• Settings - This section lists the required settings to be made in the included Apogee Maestro software
or on Apogee hardware.
• Routing - This diagram depicts the manner in which hardware inputs and outputs are routed to software
inputs and outputs. In the example shown at right, the first AD’s analog inputs are routed to software
inputs 1-16, the second AD’s analog inputs are routed to software inputs 17-32, and the first and
second DA are routed in a similar manner.
For these instructions, we’ve assumed that an X-Symphony option card has been installed in each hardware
interface. If that’s not the case, please consult pages 52 for instructions how to install X-Symphony cards.
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