AD/DA & FireWire System
Digital Converter System
Each card comes in an eight-fader-section size, with A/D converters on
the Direct Output and D/A converters on the Digital Line and Digital
Monitor inputs.
Each eight-fader section can be configured differently, so one section can
accept AES inputs, one accepts a mixture of FireWire and AES, one
accepts just FireWire inputs etc. This is set on the FireWire Settings
screen in the Genesys software.
Each 8-channels card can be used as follows:
•
The Direct Outputs can be sent to the DAW either via FireWire or the
AES Transmitters.
•
A DAW to Digital Line and Digital Monitor converter via FireWire
•
A FireWire to AES and AES to FireWire converter.
•
A DAW to Digital line and Digital Monitor converter via AES receivers.
A Monitor section card is also available so all Auxes, 8Ts, 2Ts and Main
Mix can be sent digitally to the DAW, and also enabling a 5.1 digital
surround external to be input into the monitoring system.
The AD/DA system hardware can be synced to either AES Sync,
Embedded AES Sync, Wordclock or set to sync to own internal clock.
Sample rates supported are 44.1/48/88.2/96kHz.
Sample rate converters can be enabled on all AES Receiver inputs, with a
word length of 24 bits.
A single FireWire cable connects the Genesys to your DAW.
The AES Receivers & Transmitters D-type digital audio connections adhere
to the Tascam AES wiring convention, so can be purchased off-the-shelf.
A real-time FireWire fuel gauge tells how much of the FireWire bandwidth
still remains as you assign paths to the FireWire busses
All cards can be user-installed and require no commissioning.
In
Recording
mode, the cards convert the console Outputs into digital
and sends them to the DAW via FireWire.
In
Mix
mode, the cards convert the digital mix signals into analogue and
outputs them via DLINE and DMON.
A mixture of both can also be set.
Max Number of FireWire Channels, as determined by Sample Rate
Sample Rate kHz
Maximum number of channels / Bit-rate *
44.1 / 48
96 /
LO
bit-rate
88.2 / 96
48 /
MID
bit-rate
* Using the
FW643
OHCI
chipset on the target DAW.
FireWire audio configurations can be saved for the
Lo
and
Mid
sample
rate settings.
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