User`s guide

APOGEE ELECTRONICS

Symphony64 PCI card – User’s Guide

Connect the Symphony 64 PCIe card to Apogee Interfaces

Because of the wide range of Apogee interfaces that may be connected to your Symphony 64 card, the details

of how hardware interfaces connect to the cards vary according to the specic set of interfaces in use. Please

consult the list of supported hardware combinations per Symphony 64 port beginning on page 21, and nd the

combination page that corresponds to your set of Apogee interfaces.

If you have more than four interfaces to connect, distribute them across multiple Symphony 64 ports so that the

group of interfaces connected to each port is a supported combination. For example, if you have 4 AD-16Xs and

1 DA-16X, connect the rst AD and the DA as shown on page 22, and connect the remaining ADs as shown on

page 25.

2 AD-16Xs, 2 DA-16Xs page 5

1 AD-16X ,1 DA-16X page 22

1 to 4 Rosetta 800s page 23

1 AD-16X, 1 DA-16X, 1 Rosetta 800 page 24

1 to 2 AD-16Xs page 25

1 to 2 DA-16Xs page 26

1 Rosetta 800, 1 AD-16X pages 27-28

1 Rosetta 800, 1 DA-16X pages 29-30

Many of the hardware combinations which include AD-16Xs and DA-16Xs support the interfaces’ “Standard” and

“Advanced” routing modes. Please see page 8 of the AD-16X User’s Guide and page 7 of the DA-16X User’s

Guide for an explanation of these routing modes.

Hardware Combination Example Page

An example page, the hardware combination of 2 AD-16Xs and 2 DA-16Xs, is shown at right. Each page is

organized into the following sections:

• Summary - A short paragraph describes the unique characteristics of the specic combination shown.

• PC-32 Connections - This diagram depicts the order of PC-32 connections for the specic combination.

In general, the Master PCIe card’s Channels 1-32 port is connected to the rst unit’s Main port using

the 3 meter PC-32 cable included with the Symphony 64 card; the rst unit’s Thru port is connected to

the second unit’s Main port using the 0.5 meter cable included with the X-Symphony option card, and

so on until all depicted connections are made.

PC-32 cables lengths of up to 30 meters between the Mac and hardware interfaces are supported at

sample rates of 44.1-96 kHz. Lengths up to 5 meters are supported at sample rates of 176.4-192 kHz.

Always use the 0.5 meter cable between hardware interfaces.

• Settings - This section lists the required settings to be made in the included Apogee Maestro software

or on Apogee hardware.

• Routing - This diagram depicts the manner in which hardware inputs and outputs are routed to software

inputs and outputs. In the example shown at right, the rst AD’s analog inputs are routed to software

inputs 1-16, the second AD’s analog inputs are routed to software inputs 17-32, and the rst and

second DA are routed in a similar manner.

For these instructions, we’ve assumed that an X-Symphony option card has been installed in each hardware

interface. If that’s not the case, please consult pages 52 for instructions how to install X-Symphony cards.