ART Pro Audio TubeFire 8 - Eight Ch. Mic Pre with Firewire - Manual (Page 20)

APPLICATIONS
Adding more TubeFire 8™ units to your system
The TubeFire 8™ is designed to allow you to expand the number of inputs and outputs on your system by
adding more TubeFire 8™ units. The bandwidth of the Firewire buss limits the number of units that can be
added to a system. This is further determined by the selected sample rate.
88.2KHz or 96KHz sample rates – maximum of two TubeFire 8™ units (16 channels).
44.1KHz or 48KHz sample rates – maximum of four TubeFire 8™ units (32 channels). 2
The first step is to connect each unit to the Firewire buss. Refer to the FIGURE 3. Multiple units can be daisy-
chained (unit to unit) by utilizing the ”To Computer” and “Expansion” Firewire ports on the TubeFire 8™ units.
Alternatively each TubeFire 8™ can be connected directly to the computer if there are enough available
Firewire ports.
Use the ART Card Control Panel (Windows PC) or the AUDIO/MIDI Setup utility (Mac) to set up your system
for multiple TubeFire 8™ units.
FIGURE 15 - ART Card control panel for multiple TubeFire 8™ units
2 These numbers are based on 100Mb/Sec. Firewire Rates. The TubeFire 8™ is capable of 400Mb/s, but there are a number of factors
that may limit your system to the 100Mb/Sec. rate.
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