MARIAN SERAPH M2, User Manual

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6 The SERAPH M2 in Detail: System settings
Please keep in mind that it is thereby potentially possible to cause erroneous playback and
recording, when the activating the above option.
Synchronization
Working with digital audio signals, a digital clock is always required. The following settings
define, which source is to be used for retrieving the clock for the SERAPH M2
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The SERAPH M2 may be operated in three clock-modes alternatively.
The SERAPH M2 as clock-master If ’internal clock’ is active, the SERAPH M2 generates
the clock itself. Other devices may receive this clock via the MADI inputs, SyncBus or the
Wordclock output .
The SERAPH M2 as clock-slave If ’SyncBus clock’ is selected the clock on the connector
of the SyncBus will be used
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. Equally, the SERAPH M2 can be operated in sync to clock
present on the MADI inputs or the Wordclock input .
The SERAPH M2 as SyncBus Master If you own 2 or more MARIAN PCI(e) sound
systems and installed and connected them with a SyncBus cable, you may define via the option
’card is SyncBus master’ which system supplies the digital clock for the compound. For the
SyncBus master card, any clock-source may be chosen.
All other MARIAN PCI sound systems will run synchronously to the master card, if their clock
source is set to be ’SyncBus’
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WordClock input If the SERAPH M2 is the last link in a WordClock chain, the termination
of its WordClock input may be activated here.
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Attention: If no clock is available or a wrong clock setup was done, playback errors or malfunction of the
system may occur. Please also note the hints in the appendix about the special aspects of the clock.
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The option ’Card is SyncBus Master’ must not be active in this case!
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If a sound system runs in sync to the SyncBus clock can easily be checked with the status panel: The column
’SyncBus’ has to be white. The clock master of the compound is recognizable by the ’MASTER’ in the status
panel.
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