Solid State Logic Nucleus2 User Manual page 10

DAWs With Proprietary Soundcards
Some DAWs can only receive audio via their own proprietary soundcard hardware. Many of these soundcards provide
digital (S/PDIF) connections, allowing you to take full advantage of the SSL quality pre-amps and converters. The two
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Nucleus input channels are sent using the left and right channels of the S/PDIF Out, and the S/PDIF In feeds the monitor
inputs.
If your S/PDIF connections are coaxial (usually using phono sockets), simple coaxial to optical S/PDIF converters will
be required to connect the soundcard digitally to the Nucleus
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Using Nucleus 's Digital IO
DAW
Computer
Ethernet
(DAW control
and Remote)
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Optical to
coax adaptor
USB S/PDIF
(DAW keyboard (digital
commands) audio)
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PRe (pre-amp) outputs.
Monitoring
Headphones
Recording
Sources
MP3
Player
Mains
Power
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