Box Contents; General Characteristics; Main Hardware Characteristics; Main Software Characteristics - Digigram ALP442e User Manual

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User Manual for ALP442e & ALP442e-MIC

3 BOX CONTENTS

Thank you for purchasing a DIGIGRAM sound card in the ALP-X range.
The box contains:
The ALP442e, or ALP442e-MIC, or ALP882e, or ALP882e-MIC sound card equipped with a low-
profile bracket (79.2 mm),
a standard height bracket (full height: 120 mm) that can be fitted instead of the low profile
one.
The two breakout cables that bear the XLR and BNC connectors are available as an option. One cable
supports the analog I/Os, the other one supports the digital I/Os and clocks.
Please contact your card supplier to acquire the Digigram-certified cables.

4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

ALP442e, ALP442e-MIC, ALP882e and ALP882e-MIC are PCI EXPRESS
inserted into and therefore operate in PCIe® x1, x4, x8 or x16 slots.

4.1 Main hardware characteristics

4 (ALP442e/ALP442e-MIC) or 8 (ALP882e/ALP882e-MIC) balanced analog inputs with:
-
software-adjustable
- switchable 48V phantom power on each input (ALP442e-MIC and ALP882e-MIC)
These inputs can be used in unbalanced mode ("-" signal to be connected to the ground).
8 electronically balanced analog outputs, with a maximum output level of +24 dBu.
(Electronically balanced outputs can process either balanced or unbalanced lines without loss
of level).
2 (ALP442e/ALP442e-MIC) or 4 (ALP882e/ALP882e-MIC) stereo digital AES3 inputs, 32 kHz to
192 kHz, each with a high quality hardware sample rate converter (SRC).
2 (ALP442e/ALP442e-MIC) or 4 (ALP882e/ALP882e-MIC) AES3 stereo digital AES3 outputs (up
to 192 kHz)
1 AES11 synchronisation input (up to 192 kHz)
1 word clock input/output (up to 192 kHz)
8 GPI dry contacts and 8 GPO relays
Inter-card synchronisation

4.2 Main software characteristics

Low
- Wasapi/DirectSound and ASIO application programming interfaces under Windows
- Alsa and libgpio for Linux
ALP442e
/
ALP442e-MIC:
ALP882e / ALP882e-MIC: 16 playback channels / 16 recording channels
Simultaneous acquisition and playback in PCM (8, 16 and 24 bit)
On-board mixing of physical audio inputs and software "playback" devices to physical audio
ALP882e & ALP882e-MIC
,
analog
gain
and
a
latency
8
playback
x1 sound cards. They can be
TM
maximum
input
level
multi-card
channels
/
8
recording
of
+24
dBu.
drivers
channels
7

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