I/O Card Specifications
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DME32—Owner’s Manual
I/O Card Specifications
Specifications for the currently available I/O cards are as follows.
As these specifications show, analog I/O cards offer either inputs or outputs, while dig-
ital I/O cards offer both inputs and outputs.
Choosing I/O Cards
The DME32 features four I/O slots, for a total of 32 inputs and 32 outputs, which cor-
respond to the slots as follows:
The type of cards you choose affects the number of channels that can be accessed. To
access all 32 inputs and all 32 outputs, for example, you need to install four digital I/O
cards. If you install four MY8-AD 8-channel analog input cards, for example, you can
access all 32 inputs but no outputs. Analog access to all 32 inputs and all 32 outputs can
be achieved by using Yamaha AD824 DA Converters and Yamaha DA824 DA Convert-
ers. See “AD824 & DA824 Converters” on page 256 for more information.
Analog and digital I/O cards can be combined, so you could for example, install two
MY8-AD 8-channel analog input cards in slots 1 and 2, providing analog access to
input channels 1 through 16, and install two digital I/O cards in slots 3 and 4, which
would provide digital access to input and output channels 17 through 32.
Any of the four I/O slots can be selected as the external wordclock source when using
digital I/O cards. See “Selecting the Wordclock Source” on page 229 for more informa-
tion.
To connect the DME32 to other digital audio equipment, you must determine which
digital interconnect format—AES/EBU, ADAT, or Tascam TDIF-1—the other equip-
ment supports, and then install the necessary I/O cards in the DME32.
Card
Format
In
Out
A/D
D/A
Wordlength
Connectors
MY8-AD
Analog input
8
—
20-bit,
128 times
—
—
Phone jack (balanced) x8
MY4-AD
Analog input
4
—
24-bit,
128 times
—
—
XLR-3-31 type (balanced) x4
MY4-DA
Analog output
—
4
—
20-bit,
128 times
—
XLR-3-32 type (balanced) x4
MY8-AT
ADAT
8
8
—
—
16, 20, 24
Optical x2
MY8-AE
AES/EBU
8
8
—
—
16, 20, 24
25-pin D-sub
(cable not included)
MY8-TD
Tascam TDIF-1
8
8
—
—
16, 20, 24
25-pin D-sub
BNC wordclock output
DME32 Slot
DME32 Channels
Inputs
Output
1
1–8
1–8
2
9–16
9–16
3
17–24
17–24
4
25–32
25–32
