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Welcome
Congratulations and thank you very much that you decided in favour of a
MARIAN product. You have chosen an innovative and powerful sound
system, created according to your needs, the needs of our faithful
customers. We are proud to present to you: the TRACE PRO AE.
With this fine piece of high technology you are well equipped for the future
of digital audio signal processing. That is because the TRACE PRO AE is
not just simply a recording system with professional connections in crystal-
clear audio quality of 24 bit and 192 kHz – once installed it will upgrade
your computer to a most flexible digital audio workstation. It offers you
possibilities realized yet with expensive additional equipment only and
hardly ever within a computer. You can, e.g. mix input signals and
playback signals of a software without any delay on a comfortable mixer
surface.
Due to the high quality input sample rate converter of digital input of the
TRACE PRO AE you achieve a flexibility in handling different digital
audio data format unheard-of so far. Thanks to the unique Output Control
extensive routings of all digital and analog single- and mix-signals are set
up, saved and recalled in a jiffy – just like at a patchbay.
As the special feature, the TRACE PRO AE includes the all-new TDM
SyncBus. This amazing and mighty tool of digital signal processing is
integrated directly within the powerful DSP mixer. With the help of the
TDM SyncBus all available signals can easily be directed to the input of a
TRACE PRO AE or other Marian Soundcards with TDM SyncBus option,
and are available there like “real” physical input signals. The resulting
routing- and mix-capabilities are almost unlimited.
Please take your time to go through the next pages of this manual also.
Besides helpful explanations for the installation, it offers many valuable
hints on how to use the Mixer and the Output Control effectively and
profitably. If you run in on technical terms while reading, which are
unknown to you, the glossary at the end of this manual will helpfully serve
you for their clearance.
Now, we do wish you lots of success in working with the TRACE PRO
AE. We hope it will bring you just as much fun, as we had developing it.
Your MARIAN Team
