WSG-Y16 Interface Card / User Guide
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Introduction
WSG-Y16 is a mini-YGDAI interface card that makes it possible to run Waves plugins directly from selected Yamaha
mixing consoles. It provides 16 channels of audio processing per card. Depending on the console model, up to four
cards can be used simultaneously. The WSG-Y16 V2 also features Clock Sync
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over
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Ethernet for syncing multiple
consoles and performing digital splits.
SoundGrid is the Waves high-speed networking protocol for moving audio, clock, and other information between a host
system and I/O devices—and between I/O devices themselves. A SoundGrid host configures the network, assigning
servers and I/O devices to mix, process, or record, depending on the host. SoundGrid devices link to the SoundGrid
network with standard Ethernet cable.
SoundGrid is scalable. Connect one I/O device to a DAW and you have a high-quality sound card. Add more I/Os and
your system becomes more flexible and powerful. Depending on the host application, a SoundGrid host can assign up to
sixteen I/O devices. Complete SoundGrid systems can be networked together to share devices.
Add a server to a SoundGrid system to offload plugin processing from the host CPU to a SoundGrid DSP server. This
dramatically increases processing power and enables greater plugin counts, as well as providing very low system
latency.
The following Yamaha consoles and mixers are compatible with the WSG-Y16 (V1 or V2) mini-YGDAI card:
Console Model
Maximum WSG-Y16 I/O cards
PM5D / PM10 / DM2000 / O2R96 / DME64N
x 4
M7CL / CL Series
x 3
DM1000 / LS9-32 / QL Series
x 2
LS9 / O1V96 / DME24N / TXn series
x 1