User Guide

DiGiGrid IOC / User Guide
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Introduction
Perfect for the control room, the DiGiGrid IOC interface offers a wide range of connectivity options, including two mic/line
inputs with broadcast-grade preamps, eight line inputs/outputs, sixteen AES/EBU inputs/outputs, one ADAT 8-channel
I/O, and two independently adjustable headphone outputs. DiGiGrid IOC can be used as your primary audio interface, or
as an additional I/O expansion to an existing SoundGrid system.
A SoundGrid I/O device is part of a SoundGrid network. SoundGrid is the Waves high-speed networking protocol for
moving audio, clock, and other information between a host system and I/O devices—and between I/O devices
themselves. A SoundGrid host configures the network, assigning servers and I/O devices to mix, process, or record,
depending on the host. SoundGrid I/Os link to the SoundGrid network with standard Ethernet cable.
SoundGrid is scalable. Connect one I/O device to a DAW and you have a high-quality sound card. Add more I/Os and
your system becomes more flexible and powerful. Depending on the host application, a SoundGrid host can assign up to
sixteen I/O devices. Complete SoundGrid systems can be networked together to share devices.
Add a server to a SoundGrid system to offload plugin processing from the host CPU to a SoundGrid DSP server. This
dramatically increases processing power and enables greater plugin counts—it also provides very low system latency.