Steinberg NUENDO AUDIOLINK 96 Digiset & RME PCMCIA Card Bundle
Product Description
The NUENDO AUDIOLINK 96 I/O boxes provide the connection to external equipment and process all data. The interfaces come with the TotalMix software, which allows for monitoring, mixing and submixing. You have the choice between several I/O-boxes with different input/output configurations. Currently there are two options available: The Nuendo Audiolink 96 Digiset and the Nuendo Audiolink 96 Multiset.
Nuendo Audiolink 96 Digiset offers 3 ADAT optical I/Os, ADAT-Sync In, SPDIF I/O and word clock I/O. On top, there are 2 MIDI I/Os and a separate analogue line out.
Features
3 x ADAT digital I/O, based on RME's reliable Bitclock PLL 1 x SPDIF digital I/O, based on RME's reliable DIGI96 technology 1 x ADAT Sync In (9-pin D-type) for sample accurate transfers 1 x Word clock I/O (BNC) 1 x analog Line/headphone output, separate mixer for independent submix 2 x MIDI I/O, 32 channels high-speed MIDI DIGICheck DSP: Level meter in hardware
RME Hammerfall DSP - PCMCIA card
The CardBus Interface
For some time now, laptops have become powerful enough for even ambitious harddisk recording thanks to high computing power and powerful hard drives. Up to now, a powerful interface was missing though. USB is neither offering the necessary bandwidth, nor the desired compatibility. Available PCMCIA solutions at the moment are nearly always designed as 16 bit PC Card and therefore only make use of the ISA bus.
For the Hammerfall DSP System RME developed a world-exclusive PCMCIA type II card in Zero wait state CardBus Busmaster technology. With up to 130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions the same basic performance is provided on a notebook as a PCI card would offer on a desktop computer. Additionally the card offers highest compatibility by being 100% Plug & Play compatible under Windows and MacOS, and being able to share interrupts. The card itself will only use one interrupt (IRQ) for all functions (audio/MIDI).
The connection between CardBus card and I/O box is established using ordinary firewire cable(Closed LAN to IEEE 1394). The data transfer does not use Firewire protocol, but our own proprietary bus protocol. The supplied cable is 4.5 m (14 ft.) long, a cable length up to 10 m (33 ft.) has been successfully tested. The CardBus card does not provide power to the attached I/O-box. Therefore a hi-tech switching power supply is included.
Technical Specifications & Features HDSP Interfaces
100% Plug & Play compatible Hammerfall hardware design: mono channels in block mode, organized in 32 bit ASIO double buffers ASIO poured in hardware! 0 (zero!)% CPU load when using the maximum number of channels (52) Byte swap for Mac included in hardware Automatic hardware selftest when booting Hardware update via software (virtual EPROM update) Complete interrupt sharing HDSP CardBus
PCMCIA type II, 32 bit CardBus card Zero wait state PCI Busmaster interface (130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions) Current load: ca. 300 mA Output: Closed LAN connector Package contents: PCMCIA type II card, cable 4.5 meter (Closed LAN to IEEE 1394), switching power supply 100 V-240 V/12 V, 1 A This card is for use with either the RME Digiface, or the RME Multiface I/O boxes. This card will not work without one of the I/O boxes, which are sold separately.
Nuendo Audiolink 96 Digiset offers 3 ADAT optical I/Os, ADAT-Sync In, SPDIF I/O and word clock I/O. On top, there are 2 MIDI I/Os and a separate analogue line out.
Features
3 x ADAT digital I/O, based on RME's reliable Bitclock PLL 1 x SPDIF digital I/O, based on RME's reliable DIGI96 technology 1 x ADAT Sync In (9-pin D-type) for sample accurate transfers 1 x Word clock I/O (BNC) 1 x analog Line/headphone output, separate mixer for independent submix 2 x MIDI I/O, 32 channels high-speed MIDI DIGICheck DSP: Level meter in hardware
RME Hammerfall DSP - PCMCIA card
The CardBus Interface
For some time now, laptops have become powerful enough for even ambitious harddisk recording thanks to high computing power and powerful hard drives. Up to now, a powerful interface was missing though. USB is neither offering the necessary bandwidth, nor the desired compatibility. Available PCMCIA solutions at the moment are nearly always designed as 16 bit PC Card and therefore only make use of the ISA bus.
For the Hammerfall DSP System RME developed a world-exclusive PCMCIA type II card in Zero wait state CardBus Busmaster technology. With up to 130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions the same basic performance is provided on a notebook as a PCI card would offer on a desktop computer. Additionally the card offers highest compatibility by being 100% Plug & Play compatible under Windows and MacOS, and being able to share interrupts. The card itself will only use one interrupt (IRQ) for all functions (audio/MIDI).
The connection between CardBus card and I/O box is established using ordinary firewire cable(Closed LAN to IEEE 1394). The data transfer does not use Firewire protocol, but our own proprietary bus protocol. The supplied cable is 4.5 m (14 ft.) long, a cable length up to 10 m (33 ft.) has been successfully tested. The CardBus card does not provide power to the attached I/O-box. Therefore a hi-tech switching power supply is included.
Technical Specifications & Features HDSP Interfaces
100% Plug & Play compatible Hammerfall hardware design: mono channels in block mode, organized in 32 bit ASIO double buffers ASIO poured in hardware! 0 (zero!)% CPU load when using the maximum number of channels (52) Byte swap for Mac included in hardware Automatic hardware selftest when booting Hardware update via software (virtual EPROM update) Complete interrupt sharing HDSP CardBus
PCMCIA type II, 32 bit CardBus card Zero wait state PCI Busmaster interface (130 MB/s transfer rate in both directions) Current load: ca. 300 mA Output: Closed LAN connector Package contents: PCMCIA type II card, cable 4.5 meter (Closed LAN to IEEE 1394), switching power supply 100 V-240 V/12 V, 1 A This card is for use with either the RME Digiface, or the RME Multiface I/O boxes. This card will not work without one of the I/O boxes, which are sold separately.
