SoundCraft DAKOTA 328 инструкция обслуживания

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Dakota Setup Guide 1 Contents 1 1 1 1 Connecting The System 2 2 2 2 2 Digital 328 Setup 4 3 3 3 3 Dakota Setup 7 4 4 4 4 Using The Dakota With The 328 14 Digital 328 v2 and Frontier Digital 328 v2 and Frontier Digital 328 v2 and Frontier Digital 328 v2 and Frontier Design Group Dakota Setup Guide Design Group Dakota Setup Guide Design Group Dakota [...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 2 Audio connection s should be made as shown in the diagram below. Toslin k optical cables m ust be connected both from ADAT Out port A of the Dakota card to the ADAT In port A of the 328 and vice versa, and from AD AT Out port B of the Dakota card to t he ADAT In port B o f the 328 and vice versa. 7 5 Ω Coaxial digital S/PD[...]

Dakota Setup Guide 3 You may also wish to connect the 328 to the Dakota card via MIDI to allow MIDI automation/System Exclusive dumps from the 328 to be recorded and played back from your PC. If you wish to connect the 328 to the Dakota card via MIDI, the following connections must be made: Other Connections Other Connections Other Connections Othe[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 4 The Dakota card and t he 328 (plus a ny other devices in the studio setu p) must have their internal clocks sync hronized to allow corre ct transmission and reception of digital information throughout the system. This is achiev ed b y configuring one of the devices as a wordclock master, and configuring all ot her devices in[...]

Dakota Setup Guide 5 Set the desired wordlength on the 328 with the rotary encoder. Press the down cursor to set the port for 328 ADAT port B, as for port A, and again to set the wordlength for port B. Press <ENTER > to confirm the settings. The 328 S/PDIF input can be routed to any one of the following inputs: Stereo Input 1, Stereo Input 2,[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 6 On the 328, t he stereo S/PDIF output can be sourced from any of the following busses: Mix L/R, Au x 1/2, Aux 3/4, FX1/2 This will usually be set to ‘Mix’, to allow a stereo mixd own to be recorded directl y into the Da kota on the playback of a composition. As the Dakota is a full duplex de vice, it is possible to playb[...]

Dakota Setup Guide 7 The Dakota must be set up to receive the wordclock transmitted by the 328 ( via the 328’s S/PDIF output). Open the Dakota Control Panel, accessed by double clicking the Dakota icon on the Windows Taskba r: Click on the ‘Clock/De vice Status’ tab. The following window sh ould open: Wordcl ock & S/P DIF In put Wordcl oc[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 8 Firstly, the Dakota clock source must be set to slave its internal clock to the incoming S/PDIF wordclock (outputted from the 328). Set ‘Clock Source’ to Dig In: ‘S/PDIF’: Now the samplerate must be set. In the ‘S ample Rate’ section, select the samplerate you wish to work at. This should match the samplerate of [...]

Dakota Setup Guide 9 On the Dakota, the stereo devic e ‘S 1:2’ (S/PDIF format) can be sourced from any physical in p ut. In this config uration, it must be set to source from the Dakota coaxial S/PDI F input. Wit h the ‘S 1:2’ input set to ‘Coax’, the Dako ta receives the S/PDIF stream from the 328, enabling the Dakota to slave to the 3[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 10 Now the validity of the S/PDIF i nput received by the Dakota must be checked. The ‘Digital Input Status’ section of t he ‘Clock/Devi ce Status’ Dakota Control Pa nel shows the validit y of the S/P DIF input with the following 3 indicators: Firstly, click o n ‘Clear Errors’ to initialize the indicators. In this c[...]

Dakota Setup Guide 11 The stereo output from the Dakota can be set to either AES/EBU or S/PDIF format. In this configuration, this should be set to S/PDIF, so that the 328 correctly interprets the stereo data incoming to the 328’s S/PDIF input. In the Dakota Contro l Panel, select the ‘System’ tab. In t he ‘Output Cha nnel Status’ section[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 12 If you wish to use the Dak ota as an ASIO device (e.g. with Cubase VS T), the playback/re cord wordlength should also be set. The Dakota supports both 16 bit and 24 bit A SIO wordlength resolution. Set the desired wordlength resolution in the ‘System’ page of the Dakota Control Panel under the ‘AS IO Resolution’ sec[...]

Dakota Setup Guide 13 If you wish to use the MIDI interface on the Dakota with the 328, e nsure that the MIDI mode is enabled on the Dakota Control Panel. Wit h the System page still ope n, in the ‘MIDI Mode’ section, select ‘2x2’: MIDI information can now be recorded and played back via th e Dakota. Connecting the 328 to the PC via the Dak[...]

Spirit Digital 328 v2 14 The Dakota will commonl y be used with a software sequencer/hard disk re corder to allow the simultaneous playback and recording of 8 individual tracks of au di o, via the ADAT I/O. Here, t he software application must be configured to access t he Dakota ADAT I/O via the relevant Windows device drivers that came with the Da[...]

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