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Introduction
AX16-AT—Owner’s Manual
Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Yamaha AX16-AT Audio Expansion Card. The
AX16-AT is an ADAT format digital interface card for the Yamaha DS2416
Digital Mixing Card. Two ADAT MultiChannel Optical Digital inputs and
two outputs mean that up to 16 channels of ADAT format digital audio can be
transferred simultaneously between the DS2416 and an ADAT multitrack
recorder, or other ADAT-compatible device, such as a Yamaha 02R, 03D, or
01V digital mixing console with an ADAT I/O card installed.
System Requirements
• DS2416-compatible computer with a free PCI or ISA-bus slot
• Yamaha DS2416 Digital Mixing Card
• DS2416-compatible audio software
PCI or ISA?
The AX16-AT is set for installation in a PCI-bus slot, but can also be installed
in an ISA slot simply by swapping the supplied mounting bracket. Since
DS2416-compatible Apple Power Macintosh computers do not support ISA
bus, the AX16-AT must be used in a PCI slot with Power Macs. On
DS2416-compatible Windows computers, however, the AX16-AT can be used
in either a PCI or ISA-bus slot, which means that even if all your PCI slots are
taken and the only free slots are ISA, you can still install the AX16-AT.
Important: If you are using the DS2416 and AX16-AT in a Windows 95 or
Windows 98 computer, be sure to use DS2416 driver version V103 or later.
The latest driver software is available for free download from the Yamaha
Professional Audio Web site.
<http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/proaudio/homeenglish/>
DS2416 driver version V102 or earlier does not support the AX16-AT
ADAT/THRU switch. However, it can be made to recognize the switch by
relaunching the DS2416-supporting audio software.
Important: When the DS2416’s internal Vari Pitch mode is used, the word-
clock, or sampling rate changes accordingly and some devices connected to
the AX16-AT for use as wordclock slaves may not be able to synchronize cor-
rectly. However, they may synchronize correctly at certain settings (resultant
sampling rates), but not others.