User Manual

Connections
Owner’s Manual
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Connections
About network connections
About Dante
This product features Dante technology as a protocol to
transmit audio signals. Dante is a network protocol
developed by Audinate. It is designed to deliver
multi-channel audio signals at various sampling and bit
rates, as well as device control signals over a Giga-bit
Ethernet (GbE) network. Dante also offers the following
benefits:
• It transmits up to 512 in/512 out, for a total 1024
channels (in theory) of audio over a GbE network. (The
CL series features 64 in/64 out with a 24/32-bit
resolution.)
• Dante-enabled devices will automatically configure their
network interfaces and find each other on the network.
You can label Dante devices and their audio channels
with names that make sense to you.
•
Dante uses high accuracy network synchronization
standards to achieve sample-accurate playback with
extremely low latency and jitter. Four types of latency are
offered by the CL series: 0.25 msec, 0.5 msec, 1.0 msec,
and 5.0 msec.
• Dante supports resilient redundant connections against
unexpected network problems via primary and
secondary networks.
• Connecting a computer to Dante network using an
Ethernet connection enables you to directly input or
output audio signals without using any audio interface
devices.
By taking advantage of these benefits, you can: skip any
complicated procedures to automate connections and
setups of Dante-enabled devices; remotely control I/O
devices from a mixing console; or make multi-track
recordings to a DAW, such as Nuendo, installed on a
computer in the network.
Visit the Audinate website for more details on Dante.
http://www.audinate.com/
Additional information on Dante is also posted on the
Yamaha Pro Audio website:
http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/
About Dante Controller
Dante Controller is a software application that allows
configuration and audio routing of Dante networks. Use
this application if you plan to connect or set up
Dante-enabled devices (such as Dante-MY16-AUD) that
do not feature CL native support, or if you wish to set up
complicated signal routings on a Dante network. More
information is posted on the following website.
http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/
To run Dante Controller, a computer must feature a
GbE-compatible Ethernet connector.
Refer to the Dante Controller owner’s manual for details on
Dante Controller.
Connecting to I/O devices
This section explains how to connect the CL series to I/O
devices (such as RIO3224-D) in a daisy chain network and
in a star network (redundant network). Before you make
connections with I/O devices, perform the steps described
in “Setting up the Dante network” (see page 39), and then
turn off the power of the CL series unit.
Daisy chain network
A daisy chain is a wiring scheme in which multiple devices
are connected together in sequence. In this way,
networking is simple and requires no network switches.
This connection method is suitable for a simple system
with a small number of devices.
However, if a large number of devices are connected, the
latency value must be increased. Also, if a connection is
broken in a daisy chain network, the signal flow is
interrupted at that point and no signal will be transferred
beyond that point.
■ Connecting I/O devices to the CL series
Make connections as shown below using the Dante
connectors of the CL series and the I/O devices, and set the
rotary switches and DIP switches of the I/O devices.
■ Rotary switch and DIP switch settings of the I/O
devices
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Rio3224-D (ID#1)
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