Specifications

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Working with two DS2416 Cards
If you have two DS2416 cards installed, these can be connected using the SI/SO (Se-
rial In/Out) connections on the cards, giving you access to integrated 48-channel
mixing with 4 separate on-board FX units.
1. Use the supplied serial cables to connect the SO output on card A to the SI input on
card B, and vice versa.
The two cards should be connected “both ways”. Follow the instructions in the documenta-
tion that was included with the cards.
2. Open the Output Patchbay window.
This will now have two additional columns containing output routing and word clock set-
tings for the second card.
3. Select the “ext. SI” option in the Word clock section for one of the cards.
This will cause one of the DS2416 cards to receive word clock from the other card, ensuring
stable synchronization. In effect, the card for which you activated the “ext. SI” option is now
the “Slave” and the other card is the “Master”.
Once you have connected the two cards as described above, there will be 16 Out-
put Buses in the VST Master window, and 8 Input pairs in the VST Audio Input win-
dow. Furthermore, the Input Console will hold the double number of channels (40
input channels, 8 effect return channels and two Stereo Mix channel strips).
Routing
With two DS2416 cards, the signal routing has the following properties:
• There are 32 separate “lines” from Cubase VST to the DSP Factory (sixteen stereo Out-
put Buses).
By default, VST 1 to 16 are assigned as inputs to DS Channels 1 to 16, and VST 17 to 32 are as-
signed as inputs to DS Channels 21 to 36.
• The Buses, Aux Sends and Stereo Mix for the two cards are connected in the following
way:
DS 2416 Master DS 2416 Slave
Bus Aux Stereo Bus Aux Stereo
Bus 1 - 8
Aux 3 / 4
Aux 1 - 6
Stereo