What are the planned 128ch expansion cards?

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Hi A&H.

Any news on ETA for MADI card?

Regards, Tor

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@tor
Looks like April-May.

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And how about Dante?

ddff

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Awesome Nicola!

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@Nicola - my plan was to use the MADI card as a digital split to Digico SD8 console. But can you tell me if this could also be achieved with the M-Waves card connected to a Digico with Waves expansion, and if the “latency” will be the same on soundgrid vs MADI for digital split?

I would very much like to be free from SRC, so a 96khz connection will be much preferred.

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@tor - I asked our friends at Waves and Digico and this is what I got:

This can be done over Waves SoundGrid but…

  • You will need an external laptop running MultiRack or SGStudio to set up and control the network. The MultiRack on the SD8 will not be able to control the A&H M-Waves card directly.
  • You cannot clock the Digico from the SG port, so you’d have to make the dLive slave, OR provide a Wordclock to the Digico if you wanted dLive to be master.

There is no real difference in using SG vs MADI in terms of latency.

Hope this helps.

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Ok. But 2 A&H M-waves V3 cards can be used for digital split, without an extra connected control computer?

Thanks for your help, but it is quite bad news for me :smiley: hihi. But this just shows the inherent design failure of the soundgrid protocol - the absolute demand for a control computer attached to the network at all times. The soundgrid network/servers should be able to maintain all settings within themselves, and the attached computer should just be a “remote control” - it is beyond my understanding why they would design it in any other way.

I will have to really cross my fingers for the dLive MADI card being ready before may :slight_smile:

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Any word on Dante?