Genesys User Manual - AMS Neve

Channel Master
Overview
The Channel Master AD/DA board provides:
• 8 balanced analogue Inputs (the Channel Direct Outputs)
• 16 balanced analogue Outputs (the Channels DLN & DMON inputs)
• 8 AES Outputs grouped in stereo pairs (on 25-way D-sub) carrying
Channel Direct Outputs signals.
• 16 AES Inputs grouped in stereo pairs (on 25-way D-sub) carrying DLN
and DMON inputs.
• These inputs have sample rate converters that convert any input sample
rate frequency to the sample rate selected on the Genesys. Provision to
bypass these SRCs is provided on a pair-of-channels basis (DLINE 1+2,
3+4 etc).
• 2 x FireWire sockets for daisy-chaining purposes.
• Sync: Wordclock In and Wordclock Out (both on BNC connectors);
AES Sync In and AES Sync Out (on a 25-way D-sub connector); AES
CH Sync (derived from the first AES Receiver pair).
• Two serial connectors for providing communications from the Genesys
computer
The Master card is connected to its associated Slave card by three CAT5
connectors, called The Channel Slave Audio Link.
In terms of system sync, one board is set to be the Sync Master, and all
the other boards are set to be Sync Slaves.
The Sync Master can take its sync to be from:
• Wordclock In
• AES Sync In
• AES CH Sync
• The Genesys internal clock
Sync Supported sample rates are:
• 44.1 kHz
• 48 kHz
• 88.2 kHz
• 96 kHz
• 176.4 kHz
• 192 kHz
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