Harman Soundcraft Vi BLU User And Setup Manual

Vi BLU Link Card User & Setup Guide
The Soundcraft® Vi BLU Link card is a 32 x 32 interface between a Vi
series console and the Soundweb London digital audio bus,
informally known as BLU Link. The card allows connection to a wide
variety of Harman products equipped with a BLU Link interface, such
as BSS London BLU 800, dbx® PMC or Crown® PIP‐BLU interfaces
amongst others.
BLU Link is a low latency, fault tolerant digital audio bus of 256
channels which gives a distance of 100m between compatible BLU
Link enabled devices
To increase the distance between devices the BSS Audio MC‐1 fibre
optic media converter can be used to span over 10km (6.2 miles)
using single mode fibre.
Additional information about the Soundweb London BLU Link digital
audio bus may be found on the BSS web site www.bssaudio.com
The Vi BLU Link card is available in two versions, which differ only in
the size of the front panel:
•
Local Rack/Compact Stagebox expansion slot version
(3U high, single‐width D21m card)
•
Vi Stagebox version
(6U high, single‐width stagebox slot)
Both versions of the card are shipped with a short Wordclock sync
cable (9‐pin D to BNC) for connection to the console's Wordclock
input when the console has to sync to the BLU link network (In the
case of a card installed in a stagebox, an extension BNC cable may be
required, depending on relative location of local rack and stagebox).
Vi BLU Link Card User & Setup Guide V1.1
using standard CAT5e cabling.