Mackie P/N0012557 manual Streaming Firewire I/O

The Digital X Bus’ full rear-panel card cage allows you to configure I/O exactly as you see fit, with analog mic /line cards, digital cards, FireWire cards and more. It comes with the Sync Card and Mix Out Card pre-installed.

STREAMING FIREWIRE I/O

It’s the 21st Century, so we felt it was time for a console that could work seamlessly with FireWire-equipped Macs and PCs. When equipped with the optional FireWire card, the Digital X Bus can stream digital audio

between any Mac OSX Core Audio or Windows XP and ASIO compatible DAW software. FireWire has the bandwidth to allow recording/playback of audio, effect send/returns, and it supports the use of multiple FireWire cards simultaneously. So you can load up your laptop with the latest plug ins, for example, and stream away.

VST PLUG-IN SUPPORT

Speaking of plug- ins, with its extensive processing power, the

Digital X Bus is also the first digital console which runs select VST plug-ins internally. Currently, the console supports popular plug-ins from manufacturers such as Waves, IK Multimedia, Nomad Factory, Antares, and the full suite of Universal Audio plug-ins via the UAD-1 DSP card (which is included in the X.400 model). Better still, all plug-in windows are displayed right on the built- in screens, just as they would be on your PC.

FUTURE-PROOF ARCHITECTURE

The Digital X Bus’ “modular” hardware architecture provides access to internal components simply by removing the rear panel and sliding out that portion of the chassis. So, as the mood strikes, you can opt to add more RAM, swap or add I/O cards, and basically customize the mixer to your individual tracking and mixing needs. Importantly, the Digital X Bus series allows all sample-rate related components to be upgraded, so you wont be left behind if or when new audio standards emerge.

UNDER THE HOOD

When it came to the internal processing, we rewrote the book—developing a proprietary architecture with the largest-capacity, highest- performance PCI-based Accelerator Card ever created for the pro audio market.This Accelerator Card employs a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) chip to handle the conversion of integer to floating-point math. In simple terms, this means the Accelerator Card does the hard work so the internal processor is free to handle the toughest of mixing applications while simultaneously running VST plug-ins. It also provides extremely low total system latency from analog input to analog output.

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