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

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),
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The expansion card for 2 Eth ports equipped with a low profile bracket
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(the expansion card can be linked to the main board via the flat ribbon cable).
a standard height bracket (full height: 120 mm) that can be fitted instead of the low profile
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one, and that receives the four Eth ports

4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

ALP-Dante is a low profile PCI EXPRESS
operate in PCIe® x1, x4, x8 or x16 slots.

4.1 Main hardware characteristics

Low profile
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Two Gbps Eth ports of the main board (PCIe slot).
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Two additional ports on the expansion board.
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The main board and the expansion board can have their own low profile brackets.
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The main board and the expansion board can use the same standard height bracket.
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Inter-card synchronisation
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4.2 Main software characteristics

Low latency multi-card drivers
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- Wasapi/DirectSound, and ASIO under Windows
- Alsa driver under Linux
64 playback channels & 64 recording channels at 44.1 and 48 kHz
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32 playback channels & 32 recording channels at 88.2 and 96 kHz
16 playback channels & 16 recording channels at 176.4 and 192 kHz.
Simultaneous acquisition and playback in PCM (8, 16 and 24 bit)
The available Eth ports can be used in switch or redundant mode
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"ALP-X Manager" application installed with the driver
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x1 sound card. It can be inserted into and therefore
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