User Guide

DiGiGrid IOX / User Guide
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Introduction
The DiGiGrid IOX is a high-quality digitally controlled audio I/O for SoundGrid systems. It delivers high-resolution
recording and monitoring, whether you’re performing in the studio, listening in the control room, playing onstage, or
mixing the FOH. IOX has twelve mic/line inputs, six line outputs, and four independently adjustable headphone outputs.
This super-low-latency I/O is ASIO/Core Audio compatible.
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 manages the network and assigns
servers and I/O devices to mix, process, and record, depending on the host. All SoundGrid devices connect to the host
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.