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- Page 1 User Manual for ALP-AES67 User Manual ALP-AES67 Professional multi-channel sound card with AES67 connectivity June, 2024 Author Date Status 04/06/2024 Released...
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
User Manual for ALP-AES67 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION..........................4 2 IMPORTANT NOTICE..............................5 3 BOX CONTENTS................................6 4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS............................6 4.1 Main hardware characteristics.........................6 4.2 Main software characteristics.......................... 6 5 REQUIRED CONFIGURATION............................7 5.1 Required hardware configuration........................7 5.2 Necessary software configuration under Windows.................. - Page 3 User Manual for ALP-AES67 12.9 System............................42 13 SPECIFICATIONS................................43 13.1 Configuration..............................43 13.2 Audio characteristics............................. 43 13.3 Connectors..............................43 13.4 Development environment.......................... 43 14 APPENDICES................................44 14.1 LEDs................................. 44 14.2 Connectors..............................46...
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Page 4: Introduction
This card is part of the ALP-X professional sound cards range. Copyright 2024 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 5: Important Notice
User Manual for ALP-AES67 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 6: Box Contents
User Manual for ALP-AES67 3 BOX CONTENTS Thank you for purchasing a DIGIGRAM sound card in the ALP-X range. The box contains: The ALP-AES67 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 7: Required Configuration
User Manual for ALP-AES67 Low latency multi-card and multi-applications drivers ● - Wasapi/DirectSound, and ASIO under Windows - Alsa driver under Linux "ALP-X Manager" application installed with the Windows driver ● Embedded WEB server for configuration of the network and stream parameters ●... - Page 8 User Manual for ALP-AES67 Click on “Change plan settings” in front of “Balanced (recommended)” 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 9: Necessary Software Configuration Under Windows
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-AES67 card support page. - Page 10 User Manual for ALP-AES67 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 11: Necessary Software Configuration Under Linux
RHEL 9 kernel 5.14 In case you need to run the driver under another Linux distribution, please contact Digigram to get the source code. In case you experience issues for compiling / running the driver on your Linux distribution, we... -
Page 12: Hardware Installation
User Manual for ALP-AES67 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 13: Installing The Card In The Pc
User Manual for ALP-AES67 Install the low profile bracket on the main board, and screw it. If you need to use the expansion board, install the other low profile bracket on it. If you need to use the expansion board,... -
Page 14: Internal Leds
User Manual for ALP-AES67 6.3 Internal LEDs The ALP card features two internal LEDs on the edge of its mother board, as shown below. The state of these LEDs can be seen when the PC cover is open. If the card and its on-board firmware are initialised correctly, LED 1 must be lit solid green, and LED 2 must flash every second (1 Hz). -
Page 15: 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 16: Updating The Driver Version
User Manual for ALP-AES67 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 17 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-AES67 can be tested by right clicking on this device and selecting "Test". The VU-meter must then show modulation.
- Page 18 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 19: Adjusting The Internal Latency Of The Card
User Manual for ALP-AES67 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 20: Replacing A Card
This parameter should not be modified. It impacts the latency of the driver. Sampling rate: Select the sampling rate of the ALP-AES67 card. The ALP-X Manager application must be closed before selecting a new sampling rate value. Select the new value, and click on “Ok”. -
Page 21: Uninstalling The Driver Under Windows
User Manual for ALP-AES67 Turn off the PC. ● Remove the cards to be moved. ● Restart the PC. ● Go to the Windows Device Manager, and select “Sound, video and game controllers”. ● From the “View” menu, select “Show Hidden devices”. -
Page 22: Configuring The Card Under Windows Via The Alp-X Manager Application
Manager application must be closed before changing the sampling clock value. Open the Windows device Manager, select the item “Sound, video and game controllers”, and right click on your ALP-AES67 card to open its “Properties” control panel. Select the appropriate sampling frequency values. -
Page 23: 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 AES67 streams routed to the ALP-AES67 card. These are the channels to be acquired from the software application via the recording devices. -
Page 24: Firmware Update Procedure
9.4 Firmware update procedure The ALP-AES67 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 AES67 network. - Page 25 firmware update is to be done. If the ALP-AES67 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-AES67 card during the firmware update.
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Page 26: Creating, Saving And Loading Setting Sessions
User Manual for ALP-AES67 9.5 Creating, saving and loading setting sessions The current configuration of all settings defined in ALP-X Manager can be saved. Go to the File menu and select "Save session as". To load a configuration, go to the File menu and select "Open session". -
Page 27: Asio Control Panel For Windows
Buffers sizes followed by the symbol * cannot be selected. A smaller internal buffer size must be selected from the Windows Device Manager, Sound, video and games controllers , ALP-AES67 advanced settings. - Page 28 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-AES67. The hardware monitoring is not supported. Boost ASIO priority This option allows the system to run the ASIO process with high priority, thereby increasing the reliability of this process.
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Page 29: Alp-Aes67 Principles
0. These streams are named “Sources”. 11.2 Clock The ALP-AES67 can be slaved to the PTP clock, or master PTP clock on the network. Slave to PTP clock: the source clock is the PTP clock. Master PTP Clock: the clock source has to be internal, WordClock, or MADI, and the card is elected as Master PTP on the network if its PTP clock has a higher priority than other potential Master PTP clock units on the network. -
Page 30: Configuration Of The Aoip Parameters
ALP-AES67 is connected to. The ALP-AES67 Eth ports are by default in DHCP mode. In case there is no DHCP service on your network, the ports are in APIPA mode (Automatic Private Internet Protocol Addressing), with the range of IP addresses 169.254.0.0/16... -
Page 31: General Settings
Non modifiable. Reflects the current sample rate (44100-48000- 88200-96000-176400-192000-352800-384000 Hz) that is set from the ALP-AES67 properties on the driver side. Frame size (@1Fs) Current frame size (64 - AES67/48 - 32 -16 - 12 -6). Note that available frame size values may not be available or differ according to the device and/or firmware. -
Page 32: Ptp Settings
User Manual for ALP-AES67 Network Multi-Interface mode Activate / deactivate ST2022-7 mode Interface 1-2 (Interface 2 is displayed if “Multi-interface mode” has previously been enabled and applied) Link Status Name Information only - can't be modified Type Defines the type of IP V4 address used (Zeroconf - DHCP- Static) Address To be set only if Type is set to Static. -
Page 33: Asio Clock
Only used if the other parameters do not allow for the election of a PTP master. GMID Non modifiable. Current GrandMasterID (PTP Master) Slave only Forces ALP-AES67 to always be PTP slave Delay Mech PTP Profile related - E2E or P2P Announce PTP announcement interval (1 - 2 - 4 - 8 -16 seconds) Sync 0.0625 - 0.125 - 0.25 - 0.5 seconds... - Page 34 User Manual for ALP-AES67 Parameter Description Global Multicast Clock Off, On, Auto Allows to enable/disable the multicast ASIO clock. Auto activates the ASIO clock only on the master PTP device. Address Multicast address of the ASIO Multicast Clock DSCP Allows setting the ASIO Multicast Clock DSCP value: 34 (Default), 46, 48,...
- Page 35 User Manual for ALP-AES67 Session sources This page allows for the declaration of session source instances on the ALP-AES67 (transmitters that generate the IP streams). Click on the button to create a new session. Parameter Description Enable Enables the selected source (active by default)
- Page 36 64 available channels. Routing table The routing table allows for the selection of the content of each channel of the stream, among the 128 possible output channels of the ALP-AES67 internal matrix. The first 64 displayed channels are software playback channels.
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Page 37: Session Sinks
User Manual for ALP-AES67 12.4 Session sinks This page allows for the declaration of session sinks (receiver instances) on the ALP-AES67. Click on the button to create a new session. Parameter Description Non modifiable (Stream) Label Sink name (=receiver name) - Page 38 User Manual for ALP-AES67 Channels: Count adapted To be used if the number of channels does not match Session Info Session status Interface 1-2 RTP Status Connection status. The displayed value is the sum of the following error value: 0x10 receiving RTP packets...
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Page 39: Ins / Outs
User Manual for ALP-AES67 12.5 Ins / Outs This page allows you to change the name of the Inputs and / or Outputs. 12.6 I/O Router This page allows configuring the routing from the input channels of the internal matrix to its output channels. -
Page 40: Statistics
User Manual for ALP-AES67 12.7 Statistics This page gives statistics about the sinks (received IP streams). -
Page 41: Nmos
User Manual for ALP-AES67 12.8 NMOS This page allows configuring the NMOS settings for discovery/registration, and for device connection management. Parameter Description NMOS General Settings Enable Enable or disable the NMOS client, following the Port and Registration server configuration. NMOS must be disabled to modify the registration server settings. -
Page 42: System
User Manual for ALP-AES67 Server Name / Host Provided by the Server (with DNS or mDNS). Note that this field may remain empty when Mode is set to static Address / Port Server IP address and Port Registered True if a registration server can be reached 12.9 System... - Page 43 User Manual for ALP-AES67...
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Page 44: Specifications
User Manual for ALP-AES67 13 SPECIFICATIONS 13.1 Configuration Bus/Format PCI EXPRESS x1 / Low profile (compatible x2, x4, x8, x16) Dimensions 168 mm × 69 mm x 20 mm Consumption (+3.3 V/+12 V) 0.4 A / 0.3 A In operation: temperature/humidity 0°C/+50°C •... -
Page 45: Appendices
User Manual for ALP-AES67 14 APPENDICES 14.1 LEDs The ALP card has four green LEDs: two 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 46 User Manual for ALP-AES67 LED 2 Signals if the card is running the last updated ● Flashes every second: 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 uploaded...
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Page 47: Connectors
With the expansion card (low profile brackets) Card equipped with the standard profile bracket Eth connectors Mode Switch Primary Switch Switch Switch Redundant Primary Secondary Switch Primary Switch Secondary Note: Switch and Redundant modes are configured from the ALP-AES67 WEB pages. - Page 48 E-mail: info_asia@digigram.com Copyright 2024 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.
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