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Realtime Rack Manual Chapter 2: Hardware 21

Chapter 2: Hardware

Hardware Overview

The Realtime Rack hardware is the 1U rack device that performs audio signal processing

on digital audio streams via MADI optical I/O. The hardware unit contains four SHARC

DSPs that process the UAD Powered Plug-In algorithms. Each unit can process up to

16 MADI streams, and up to four units can be combined to process a total of 64 MADI

streams. Additionally, each unit has dual-redundant internal power supplies and auto-

matic failover protection.

Each Realtime Rack hardware unit is conﬁgured and controlled by the Realtime Rack

software application. The MADI channels being processed by each hardware unit is

speciﬁed in the Settings tab in the Realtime Rack software.

Front Panel

This section describes the function of all visual indicators and controls on the Realtime

Rack front panel. There are ﬁve visual-only elements and one (recessed) hardware RE-

SET button.

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RESET

(1) HOST Indicator

The HOST indicator displays the status of the rear panel Thunderbolt connection to the

host computer system. The indicator is lit when Realtime Rack is connected to, and

properly communicating with, the Mac computer that is running Realtime Rack software.

The Realtime Rack software must be properly installed and conﬁgured on the host com-

puter to enable driver connectivity, and the HOST indicator must be illuminated to use

Realtime Rack with all computer and Vi console operations.