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DigiGrid M
7. MOVING AUDIO IN A SOUNDGRID NETWORK
You’ve congured the network and set up the DiGiGrid M. One last thing to do: Integrate your hosts into the SoundGrid network so
that you can send audio to and from devices—and listen to it. In order to do this, the audio must be patched from one point to another.
SoundGrid is a scalable and very exible network, so audio must be patched. You can connect any combination of items: a device
channel, the eMotion ST mixer, another driver (that is, another computer), or a mix of these. Plus you can change your conguration at
any time.
Usually you don’t need to think about patching. When you rst set up a SoundGrid network or change its physical inventory, the Wizard
automatically sets up your devices and establishes the patches. Still, you should know how to patch between devices, drivers, and
applications. Then you can take advantage of the exibility of a SoundGrid network.
There are three types of SoundGrid Patch page connections:
• Patch I/Os to drivers in order to connect with a DAW. The driver “speaks the same language” as the OS or DAW, so it serves as the
intermediary between the I/O and the DAW.
• Patch directly to the eMotion ST. This application “speaks the same language” as the DiGiGrid M , so this connection bypasses the
SoundGrid driver altogether.
• Patch two or more devices to each other to split signals to several hosts. This serves the purpose of a multi-connector or tie line.