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- Page 1 User Manual for ALP-DANTE User Manual ALP-Dante Professional multi-channel sound card with DANTE connectivity November 2023 Author Date Status 20/11/2023 Release...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
User Manual for ALP-DANTE TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION 2 IMPORTANT NOTICE 3 BOX CONTENTS 4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 4.1 Main hardware characteristics 4.2 Main software characteristics 5 REQUIRED CONFIGURATION 5.1 Required hardware configuration 5.2 Necessary software configuration under Windows 5.3 Necessary software configuration under Linux 6 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 6.1 Preparing the card... -
Page 3: Introduction
This card is part of the ALP-X professional sound cards range. Copyright 2023 Digigram. All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced without the prior consent of Digigram. This reservation includes photocopying, translating and/or reformatting the information contained in this manual. -
Page 4: Important Notice
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 2 IMPORTANT NOTICE Certifications The product is currently being certified. This product has been designed in accordance with the following standards: EMC Directive 2014/30/EU. ● FCC Rules Part 15, Subpart B. ● To ensure compliance with the standards listed above, the following rules must be followed: The cable supplied must not be modified. -
Page 5: Box Contents
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 3 BOX CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing a DIGIGRAM sound card in the ALP-X range. The box contains: The ALP-Dante sound card equipped with a low-profile bracket (79.2 mm), ● The expansion card for 2 Eth ports equipped with a low profile bracket ●... -
Page 6: Required Configuration
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 5 REQUIRED CONFIGURATION 5.1 Required hardware configuration There are no particular hardware restrictions in terms of PC on using the ALP card and its driver. The PC can have standard height or low profile PCIe card slots. - Page 7 User Manual for ALP-DANTE Select “Change advanced power settings”. Select “PCI Express”, “Link State Power Management”, and select “Off” for the setting. Click on Ok to validate...
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Page 8: Necessary Software Configuration Under Windows 8
ALP cards operate under Windows from 64-bit versions of Windows 10 from version 20H2. To use your ALP-X card, you must install the driver included in the installation kit “ALP-X Kit”. Download the latest version from the digigram website from the ALP-Dante card support page. - Page 9 User Manual for ALP-DANTE To check this, go to the Computer Management panel, Services, and browse to the line Windows Audio Endpoint Builder. Double click on Windows Audio Endpoint Builder to display its properties. From the “Service status” section, if the displayed status is not running, click on Start and...
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Page 10: Necessary Software Configuration Under Linux
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 5.3 Necessary software configuration under Linux ALP cards operate under Linux from the 64-bit Kernel 4.1x onwards (according to kernel.org). The Alsa driver for Linux is available for download. It is supplied as a DKMS package, which can... -
Page 11: Hardware Installation
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 6 HARDWARE INSTALLATION Given the shortened length of the PCI EXPRESS connector and the resulting lack of mechanical stability, we strongly advise against transporting the cards installed in a computer, unless it features a specific device for holding the card firmly in place to avoid material damage. -
Page 12: Installing The Card
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 6.2 Installing the card Insert the card in the available PCIe slot and press to position it firmly. Tighten the screw fixing the bracket to the chassis or lock the card using the device provided for this purpose on your computer. -
Page 13: Software Installation Under Windows
Should you use a specific application developed or installed by a Digigram partner, this may mean using a specific driver version. In this case, confirm with your application supplier which driver version to use. -
Page 14: Updating The Driver Version
User Manual for ALP-DANTE settings. There is no need to install it if no application reliant on the ASIO interface is used. The driver is installed by default in the folder "C:\Program Files (x86)\Digigram\ALP-X". To change this folder, click on Browse and select a new destination. - Page 15 Try to uninstall the ALP-X Kit (from the Windows control panel, Applications) and re-install it. ● Playback to an output device of the ALP-DANTE can be tested by right clicking on it and selecting "Test". The VU-meter must then show modulation and the sound must be heard on the card output(s) according to the routing and levels configured in the ALP-X Manager application.
- Page 16 This application can be launched from the shortcut created on the desktop or from the start menu, Digigram group. The card must appear as below if it and its driver are installed correctly. Note that a maximum of eight ALP cards can be displayed and handled in ALP-X Manager.
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Page 17: Adjusting The Internal Latency Of The Card
User Manual for ALP-DANTE All the present ALP cards must be listed in the "ACTIVE CARDS GROUP" selection list. 7.5 Adjusting the internal latency of the card The internal latency of the card is determined by the duration of sample buffers the card exchanges with the PC for playback and recording audio streams. -
Page 18: Replacing A Card
48 corresponds to 1ms buffer). Samples / Position update: This parameter should not be modified without prior technical advice from Digigram. It serves for cases where audio dropouts are experienced whatever is the internal buffer setting. - Page 19 User Manual for ALP-DANTE UNINSTALLING DRIVER UNDER WINDOWS Proceed as follows to uninstall an ALP driver version. Please note that uninstalling a version must be done prior to the installation of another version. From Windows Start menu, open the ”Settings” panel Click on the “Apps”...
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Page 20: Configuring The Card Under Windows Via The Alp-X Manager Application
Open the Windows device Manager, select the item “Sound, video and game controllers”, and right click on your ALP-DANTE card to open its “Properties” control panel. Select the appropriate sampling frequency values. - Page 21 User Manual for ALP-DANTE Select OK to apply the changes. You will be prompted to restart the computer. Click on the clock icon to display the clock settings of each present ALP card. The sampling rate value of the card cannot be configured from the Dante Controller...
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Page 22: Input And Output Vu-Meters
This view displays the vu-meters for all input and output channels. Input vu-meters reflect the audio modulation received from the Dante streams routed to the ALP-DANTE card. These are the channels to be acquired from the software application via the recording devices. -
Page 23: Firmware Update Procedure
9.4 Firmware update procedure The ALP-DANTE card on-board firmware may have to be upgraded, and updates can be supplied by Digigram and prove necessary. The firmware update has to be done from the AVS-Monitor application, which allows applying a new firmware through the Dante network. - Page 24 If the ALP-DANTE card(s) appears with unchecked boxes as shown below, this means that no firmware update is to be done. If the ALP-DANTE card boxes are checked, then select “Update” on the bottom right of the Firmware Manager window to start the firmware update. Do not shut down the PC hosting the ALP-DANTE card during the firmware update.
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Page 25: Keyboard Shortcuts
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 9.6 Keyboard shortcuts Keyboard shortcut Action Session Ctrl + S Save Ctrl + Alt + S Save As Ctrl + N Ctrl + O Open... -
Page 26: Asio Control Panel For Windows
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 10 ASIO CONTROL PANEL for Windows The ASIO control panel can be started from the Asio application, from the menu allowing for the settings of the audio device and the ASIO configuration. Active cards group/Asio channels allocation... - Page 27 This setting defines the format of samples exchanged between the application and the card driver. Enable Direct Monitoring Control This feature has no impact on the ALP-DANTE. The hardware monitoring is not supported. Boost ASIOpriority This option allows the system to run the ASIO process with high priority, thereby increasing the reliability of this process.
- Page 28 DANTE PARAMETERS 11.1 Connecting to a Network In order to use your ALP-DANTE card, you will need to set up an Ethernet network connecting: The computer on which the ALP-DANTE card is installed. Connection is made through the ● ALP-DANTE card.
- Page 29 Network control must be performed via the standard network adapter on the computer on which Dante Controller is installed. If this is the same computer in which the ALP-DANTE card is installed, the computer must be connected to the Dante network via two Ethernet cables and a network switch: one cable connecting the ALP-DANTE card to the switch, and one connecting the PC NIC to the switch, as shown below.
- Page 30 User Manual for ALP-DANTE the Primary Network and the Secondary Network. To set up and use Dante Redundancy, connect your redundant Dante-enabled device using duplicate network switches and Ethernet cables as shown below. Connect the following to the Primary Network only: ●...
- Page 31 Dante network. Use of 100Mbps Network interface The use of a 100 Mbps Ethernet device with the ALP-DANTE card is NOT SUPPORTED. You must connect the ALP-DANTE to Gigabit interfaces: Gigabit Ethernet network switch, Gigabit network interface on a PC or Mac.
- Page 32 A green icon will appear when the routing is established. Click again to remove the routing. NOTE Ctrl+click on the cell at the intersection of the devices to configure the entire routing. Configuring the Card To configure features of your ALP-DANTE, including its name, sample rate, and latency: 1. Start the Dante Controller.
- Page 33 Identify feature to know which card is which. Once you have selected a particular card within Device View in the Dante Controller, you can click on the Identify icon in the Device View toolbar. This will cause all of the LEDs on the ALP-DANTE card to flash green for about ten seconds.
- Page 34 Enter a new value. Tx (transmit) labels must be specific to that device. ● Changing the Sample Rate The sample rate of the ALP-DANTE card can only be modified from the Windows Device Manager panel. See section “ Sampling clock”.
- Page 35 The selection of the switch mode or redundant mode is available from the “Device view” by selecting the “Network configuration” tab. AES67 compatibility mode AES67 streams can be exchanged between the ALP-DANTE and AES67 devices. The parameters of the AES67 compatible mode are: SAP (Session Announcement Protocol) must be supported.
- Page 36 100 Mbps or slower connections are not supported. ● The AES67 mode of the ALP-DANTE card can be set from the Dante controller. Select the ALP-DANTE card, and go to the “AES67 Config” tab. Apply “Clear Config” and reboot the Dante interface when enabling or disabling AES67 mode.
- Page 37 PTP v1 and v2 are not inter-compatible. One AES67-enabled Dante device will act ● as the boundary clock between PTP v1 and v2, bridging the two clock domains Enabling ALP-DANTE as Master for both Dante and AES67. Enable the Dante card “Preferred Master” status ●...
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Page 38: Specifications
-5°C/+70°C • 0%/95% (without condensation) 12.2 Audio characteristics Sampling frequency 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96, 176.4, 192 kHz (set from Windows Device Manager, ALP-DANTE card properties) Audio formats supported PCM: 16, 24, 32 bits 12.3 Connectors Internal connectors Inter-card synchronisation... -
Page 39: Appendices
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 13 APPENDICES 13.1 LEDs The ALP card has four green LEDs: 2 LEDs on the PCB (only visible when the PC is open) and two LEDs on the bracket as illustrated in the diagram below. Bracket LEDs Internal LEDs If the card and its on-board firmware are initialised correctly, LED 1 must be lit solid green, and LED... - Page 40 User Manual for ALP-DANTE LED 2 Signals if the card is running the last updated ● Flashes every seconds: firmware or the backup factory firmware The card runs the last uploaded firmware version version. (normal behaviour). ● If this LED flashes differently, the card runs the backup factory firmware instead of the last...
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Page 41: Connectors
User Manual for ALP-DANTE 13.2 Connectors Card equipped with the low profile bracket. Without the expansion card With the expansion card (low profile brackets) Card equipped with the standard profile bracket Eth connectors Mode Switch Primary Switch Switch Switch Redundant... - Page 42 E-mail: info_asia@digigram.com Copyright 2023 Digigram. All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be reproduced without the prior consent of Digigram. This reservation includes photocopying, translating and/or reformatting the information contained in this manual. Everything possible has been done to ensure the greatest accuracy, however Diagram cannot be held liable for any typing error, error or omission and reserves the right to make modifications and improvements without prior notice.