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Glossary
DME32—Owner’s Manual
MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface)
—The standard digital interface
for remotely controlling electronic musical systems and audio equipment.
mini YGDAI (Yamaha General Digital Audio Interface)
—The second-gener-
ation YGDAI interface system used on the 01V Digital Mixing Console, D24 Digital
Multitrack Recorder, and DME32 Digital Mixing Engine.
Oversampling
—A technique used to reduce noise due to quantization errors in
which audio is sampled at a rate much higher than the nominal sampling rate.
PC Card
—A small, credit card-sized device for use with personal computers and other
electronic devices. PC Cards come in three thicknesses, the thinnest being Type I, which
is typically used for RAM or ROM memory. Type II cards, which are slightly thicker,
may contain, for example, a fax/modem, while Type III cards are thick enough to con-
tain a hard disk drive.
PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Associa-
tion)
—The organization responsible for the development of the PC Card standard.
RS232C
—An interface for connecting serial devices, offering a transmission distance
of approximately 15 meters, typically using 9- or 25-pin D-Sub connectors.
RS422
—A balanced interface for connecting serial devices, offering a transmission
distance of approximately 1 kilometer, higher data rates, and greater immunity to inter-
ference than RS232C.
Run mode
—The DME Manager mode used to control the DME32 system in real
time, which includes editing component parameters, storing and recalling scenes, and
recalling configurations.
Sampling rate
— The number of times per second an analog audio signal is sampled
(i.e., measured) during A/D conversion.
Scene
—A DME32 scene contains a snapshot of all component-parameter settings. Up
to 99 scenes can be stored in each configuration.
Tascam TDIF-1 interconnect format
—The Tascam Digital InterFace audio inter-
connect format typically found on Tascam TDIF-1-compatible digital audio equip-
ment. TDIF-1 is a bidirectional, 8-channel format, which uses 25-pin D-sub
connectors.
USB (Universal Serial Bus)
—A serial bus for connecting external devices to per-
sonal computers, offering data transfer rates of up to 12 Mbps.
WC
—An abbreviation for wordclock.
Wordclock
—A clock signal used to synchronize the data processing circuits of all
devices in a digital audio system.
YGDAI (Yamaha General Digital Audio Interface)
—The digital audio inter-
face system that offers a range of analog and digital input and output options for
Yamaha digital audio equipment.
