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DiGiDrid Q User Manual

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  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    3.1 One Computer with a DiGiGrid Q ............................9 3.2 Adding More I/Os to Your System ............................10 3.3 Adding a Server ..................................11 3.4 Multiple Computers with a Single DiGiGrid Q ....................... 12 4. Software Setup And Controls ..............................13 4.1 Device Firmware ..................................15 4.1.1 Resetting the Unit .................................
  • Page 3 5. Control Panel ....................................17 5.1 Clock Page ....................................18 6. Adding A Server ....................................20 6.1 Applications of an External Server ........................... 21 6.1.1 eMotion ST mixer ................................21 6.1.2 StudioRack ..................................22 7. Moving Audio In A Soundgrid Network ..........................23 7.1 Using an I/O Device with a DAW ............................

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Q features 1/4-inch and 3.5mm outputs, and it can accommodate all headphones up to 600 ohm. It has four input options to suit all users: XLR, RCA, Ethernet/CAT5 (to connect to the SoundGrid Network), RCA, and Bluetooth.

  • Page 5: Getting Started

    • Click “Easy Install & Activate. ” Any products that are not currently activated will appear on the list. • Make sure that your DiGiGrid Q driver and SoundGrid Studio are checked, and then click on the “Install & Activate” button.

  • Page 6: Licenses

    StudioRack and eMotion ST for low-latency recording and monitoring, or offloading processing from the host CPU, require a server and a SoundGrid license. This license is included with the purchase of DiGiGrid Q. When you register your device, the relevant licenses are deposited in your Waves account. Use the Waves Central application to...

  • Page 7: Hardware

    2. HARDWARE DiGiGrid Q Front Panel DiGiGrid Q Rear Selected input indicators Headphone output level control Click to cycle through inputs: Bluetooth Status LED: Flashes alternating red and blue when not paired. Flashes ANA = Analog steady blue when paired.

  • Page 8: Monitoring Options

    To set up Bluetooth, enable Bluetooth on your tablet / phone / computer, and view the available Bluetooth devices. When the DiGiGrid Q device appears, select it and choose to pair. You will not have to enter a passcode. When the pairing process is complete, the Bluetooth indicators on the top panel of the Q will flash blue only, which indicates successful pairing.

  • Page 9: Suggested Uses And Configurations

    I/O resources. Studios with several rooms and many DAWs can stream audio between rooms and quickly swap out devices. But no matter how simple or complex your setup is, connecting a DiGiGrid Q involves only one cable: an Ethernet Cat 5e or Cat 6.

  • Page 10: Adding More I/Os To Your System

    Audio and clock pass through the same Ethernet cable. This means of distributing clock is called “Sync over Ethernet” (SoE) and is used between all SoundGrid devices. If the DiGiGrid Q is the SoE master, then the entire network will be locked to this external source.

  • Page 11: Adding A Server

    Devices Racks of the System Inventory page. The server is assigned in the Servers section, and the I/O is assigned in the Rack A: Hardware I/O Devices section. All servers initially appear as “SGS. ” Once assigned, a server can be renamed. DiGiGrid Q DiGiGrid S...

  • Page 12: Multiple Computers With A Single Digigrid Q

    If you want to stream audio between several computers in order to combine multiple mixes or elements, connect several DAWs to one DiGiGrid Q interface. Each DAW can send and receive an audio stream, and any one computer can control the I/O.

  • Page 13: Software Setup And Controls

    4. SOFTWARE SETUP AND CONTROLS A SoundGrid network is managed by the SoundGrid Studio Application. This application assigns and removes devices, oversees the network, patches between devices, and provides access to device control panels. To maintain network effectiveness, the SoundGrid Studio Application always runs in the background. Bring SoundGrid Studio to the front by clicking on the SoundGrid icon in the Mac Top Bar or the Windows System Tray.
  • Page 14 To add another SoundGrid device, click on the arrow in an empty rack slot. From the list of available devices, choose the one you want to add, in this case, a DiGiGrid D interface. In this image the DiGiGrid Q is grayed out, and therefore unavailable, since it is already claimed (in this case, by you).

  • Page 15: Device Firmware

    4.1 Device Firmware Firmware is a small program that runs on a device in order to control it. It enables DiGiGrid Q to communicate correctly with SoundGrid Studio. An I/O that is using outdated or incompatible firmware will not work properly in a SoundGrid network until its firmware is updated.

  • Page 16: Resetting The Unit

    4.1.1 Resetting the Unit If after an unsuccessful firmware update theDiGiGrid Q is not recognized by MultiRack or SoundGrid Studio (the DiGiGrid Q device does not appear in the Inventory panel), you can use the Reset button to try to recover the unit.

  • Page 17: Control Panel

    5. CONTROL PANEL Access the DiGiGrid Q Control Panel by clicking on the Gear symbol in the SoundGrid Studio Device Rack. From here you can control clock source, sample rate, clock type, and clock status. Pressing the “Hardware Control Panel” button on the Driver Control Panel app will open the control panels of all I/O devices assigned to your SoundGrid application.

  • Page 18: Clock Page

    Status indicators are on the right. SOURCE sets the clock source Sync over Internet The DiGiGrid Q sets its clock to the sample rate of the SoundGrid network. The device is a slave. Internal The device is the clock master and as such it determine the...
  • Page 19 SAMPLE RATE sets the sample rate when Clock Source is set to Internal. Range: 44.1 / 48 / 88.2 / 96 kHz. CLOCK STATUS INDICATORS Three windows on the right side of the Clock control panel help you to quickly assess the network status of the DiGiGrid Q. STATUS Reports the presence or absence of sync between the Q and the SoundGrid network.

  • Page 20: Adding A Server

    When you connect a server to the host computer and run the SoundGrid Studio Wizard, the server is assigned and configured for the host. Normally that’s all you need to do. The server appears in the SoundGrid Studio Server rack, and the DiGiGrid Q is seen in the Hardware I/O rack.

  • Page 21: Applications Of An External Server

    6.1 Applications of an External Server The external server gives you access to advanced features for mixing processing, and monitoring. 6.1.1 eMotion ST mixer The eMotion ST is the mixer element of the SoundGrid Studio System. It lets you run SoundGrid plugins with low latency for monitoring while recording.

  • Page 22: Studiorack

    6.1.2 StudioRack StudioRack is a plugin chainer for any DAW. It hosts up to eight plugins, controls them, assigns them to external controllers, and manages them. All this in a way that makes it easy to move from one DAW session to another and from one DAW platform to another.

  • Page 23: Moving Audio In A Soundgrid Network

    7. MOVING AUDIO IN A SOUNDGRID NETWORK You’ve configured the network and set up the DiGiGrid Q. One last thing to do: Integrate your hosts into the SoundGrid network so that you can send audio to and from devices—and listen to it. In order to do this, the audio must be patched from one point to another.

  • Page 24: Using An I/O Device With A Daw

    7.1 Using an I/O Device with a DAW When using a DAW on a SoundGrid network, the SoundGrid ASIO/Core Audio driver serves as a bridge between DiGiGrid Q and the DAW. It enables the I/O to communicate with the DAW, and it provides patch points for connections. Using the driver and routing audio through it involves two steps: patch between the I/O and the driver;...

  • Page 25: Patching I/O To Driver And Driver To I/O

    7.2 Patching I/O to Driver and Driver to I/O When streaming audio from a DAW, you must assign DiGiGrid Q outputs to the SoundGrid ASIO/Core Audio driver. You can also monitor through the eMotion ST mixer. We’ll cover that option later in this section.
  • Page 26 Selecting the Driver in the DAW DAW I/O Setup When a DAW is part of a SoundGrid network, the SoundGrid When you look at the I/O setup page of your DAW, what you see ASIO/Core Audio driver must be its playback engine. Choose are driver channels whose default names represent what they Waves SoundGrid from among your playback engine options.
  • Page 27 In the Patch page (left), DiGiGrid Q analog channels 1–4 are patched to driver channels 1–4. The arrow on the upper left of the Patch indicates that signal flows from the WSG driver to the DiGiGrid Q. Now look at the DAW I/O. The two driver channels appear at the top, and are patched to DAW input channels 1–2.
  • Page 28 Driver Channel Names in your DAW SoundGrid Studio patches from the Waves SoundGrid ASIO/Core Audio driver to a hardware I/O device, a secondary driver (another computer), or the eMotion ST mixer. SoundGrid Studio transmits these names through the driver to the DAW. These will appear as the default names within your DAW. Most DAWs allow you to change the naming manually.
  • Page 29 Note: This transmission occurs while you launch your DAW and the driver handshakes with it. This means that any change of I/O name or eMotion ST channel name will not be visible in your DAW until you relaunch it. Some DAWs, such as Cubase, will let you reset the connection to the driver, saving you the need to relaunch the application.
  • Page 30 Here is an example of your DAW receiving input from another DAW on a secondary computer via networking: To ensure that the names have been updated in your DAW, you may need to follow certain steps, depending on your DAW. Here are a few examples.
  • Page 31 Multiple Client Core Audio/ ASIO Driver The Waves SoundGrid ASIO (Windows) or Core Audio (Mac) driver lets you configure multiple hosts with the same local driver. This means you can use multiple DAWs on the same computer simultaneously. This allows you to record the same source to two DAWs on the same computer consecutively;...

  • Page 32: Emotion St Mixer Patching

    7.3 eMotion ST Mixer Patching The eMotion ST mixer enables you to create studio monitor mixes as well as personalized headphone mixes. Patch to and from the mixer using the eMotion ST input and output tabs on the left side of the interface. The green buttons indicate whether a channel is mono, left side of a stereo pair, or right side of a stereo pair.

  • Page 33: Device-To-Device Patching

    Choose this view to patch devices and drivers to each other. All device and driver channels are shown along both the horizontal and vertical axes. There are many ways to patch devices, but normally DiGiGrid Q inputs are patched to the ASIO/Core Audio inputs for recording.

  • Page 34: Technical Specifications

    8. TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS Line Input Impedance 10KΩ AES/EBU Input Impedance 110Ω Line Input Level +2dBu For Full Scale Frequency Response 0.005% (40dB Gain) (Analogue To Analogue) -3dB <10Hz To 100kHz Harmonic Distortion 0.005% Headphone Gain Range Infinity To +10dB Max Output Level Load Level RMS 16Ω...

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