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Liquid Saffire 56 Architecture
Liquid Saffire 56 offers more than just simple input and output routing to and from your computer. Saffire MixControl software
also allows you to re-route audio signals to any output, and to create custom mixes to be sent to your recording artists, outboard
processing equipment, or mixing console.
The following diagrams give an overview of the Liquid Saffire 56 audio paths when set at different sample rates and
S/PDIF configurations.
The Hardware Inputs are routed directly to the DAW Inputs. The table below each diagram shows the routing configuration.
44.1kHz / 48kHz Optical as ADAT
HARDWARE IN
DAW IN
Analogue 1-8
1-8
S/PDIF 1-2
9-10
ADAT 1 1-8
11-18
ADAT 2 1-8
19-26
Loop back 1-2
27-28
44.1kHz / 48kHz Optical as S/PDIF
HARDWARE IN
DAW IN
Analogue 1-8
1-8
S/PDIF 1-2
9-10
ADAT 1
11-18
S/PDIF 1-2
19-20
*DAW IN 21-26 are redundant
Loop back 1-2
27-28
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
DAW OUT
Liquid Saffire 56
HARDWARE IN
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Analog
ADAT 1
ADAT 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
S/PDIF
1 2
HARDWARE OUT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Analog
ADAT 1
ADAT 2
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
S/PDIF
1 2
28 IN
Loop back
28 OUT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28
Saffire Mix Control
Music Software
ROUTER
DAW IN
MIXER
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22
DAW OUT
Liquid Saffire 56
HARDWARE IN
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
Analog
ADAT 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
S/PDIF
1 2
S/PDIF 2
3 4
HARDWARE OUT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Analog
ADAT 1
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
S/PDIF
1 2
S/PDIF 2
1 2
22 IN
Loop back
22 OUT
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 27 28
Saffire Mix Control
Music Software
ROUTER
DAW IN
MIXER
