Studer D950 Operating Instructions Manual page 574

D950/Vista Digital Mixing System
System Size & Numbers
7-8 ConfigTool
The system must contain one communication and control board called the
MEMNET board.
The total number of boards in any combination can be 21 at the maximum.
The size and power of the system is defined by the number of DSP proces-
sors and I/O boards installed. The total DSP power can be compared to a
large bucket full of water (Installed DSP Capacity). The contents of the
large bucket can be distributed to four small buckets (channels with fader
+ EQ) or to only two medium-sized buckets (channels with fader + EQ +
Dyn + Delay + 3D-PAN...).
So, the number of available channels depends on two things:
• Total installed capacity (1...20 DSP boards)
• Load required by each of the channel types and their quantity.
To complicate matters slightly, the total number of channels also depends
on the number of summing buses and the number of physical I/O inter-
faces. To illustrate this, we can look at 3 different ways to use the same in-
stalled DSP power.
SW V3.3 Date printed: 05.08.03