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1.10 Estimating System Requirements
This section helps estimate the system requirements for a particular installation. Contact a
Euphonix representative for an exact specification. Use the following categories to determine
the Max Air components necessary for your studio. Most of the studio details considered
here are relevant to any digital mixing system.
1.10.2 Number of CM416 16-channel Sections
One application may require a small, powerful console to control many inputs from a small
number of faders. Other applications may trade console size for the power of accessing
each input quickly without having to swap the fader or recall a Layout. Specify enough
physical faders to conveniently control the required number of inputs, remembering that
multi-channel sources (Stereo, 5.1) can be controlled with a single fader on the Max Air
and do not require 2 or 6 individual faders. There can be up to three fully loaded
CM416s yielding 48 faders, which gives you 96 locations (Main and Swap layer) to
place sources without having to change layouts.
1.10.1 Number of DF66 DSP Line Cards
Some examples of Mixer Models and their relationship to the number of DF66 cards are
shown below.
Table 1-1
DF66 Requirements
NOTE: Table 1-2 refers to logical audio channels not inputs. See Inputs on page xx
to see how to count logical channels based on the number and type of inputs.
Number
of cards
Sample
Rate
Logical
Channels
Record
Buses
Mix
Buses
Aux
Sends
2
48 kHz
68
16
3
48 kHz
24
3
48 kHz
16
4
48 kHz
16
48 kHz
24
48 kHz
16
8
86
24
16
96
24
24
130
24
194
24
32
24
5
150
32
24
6
24
1.10.3 I/O Specification
The following tables summarize the I/O capabilities of the Euphonix MADI converters.
The number of available MADI I/O ports on the DF66 depends on the number of SP662
DSP cards. Each SP662 provides four MADI I/O ports for a maximum of 24 MADI in-
Bus
Processors
8
12
0
12
16
16