Introduction - ALLEN & HEATH M-Waves V1 User Manual

Introduction

The Allen & Heath M-Waves expansion card is an audio networking option that links an Allen & Heath dLive or Avantis
console I/O port to a SoundGrid network.
M-Waves cards are available in three versions:
• M-Waves V1 or V2 for Allen & Heath iLIVE and GLD consoles - M-Waves V1 and V2 cards provide 64 channels.
• M-DL-Waves3 for Allen & Heath dLIVE consoles - Each M-DL-Waves3 card provides 128 channels of bi-
directional audio to SoundGrid.
Please note: You can use M-Waves V1 and V2 by using M-DL-ADAPT card adapter with dLive consoles.
A SoundGrid I/O device is part of a SoundGrid network. SoundGrid is the Waves high-speed networking protocol for
moving audio, clock, and other information between a host system and I/O devices—and between I/O devices
themselves. A SoundGrid host configures the network, assigning servers and I/O devices to mix, process, or record,
depending on the host. SoundGrid I/Os link to the SoundGrid network with standard Ethernet cable.
SoundGrid is scalable. Connect one I/O device to a DAW and you have a high-quality sound card. Add more I/Os and
your system becomes more flexible and powerful. Depending on the host application, a SoundGrid host can assign up to
sixteen I/O devices. Complete SoundGrid systems can be networked together to share devices.
Add a server to a SoundGrid system to offload plugin processing from the host CPU to a SoundGrid DSP server. This
dramatically increases processing power and enables greater plugin counts—it also provides very low system latency.
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