DMI Waves / User Guide
Introduction
The DMI Waves card enables integration with Waves SoundGrid systems via a single Ethernet cable. It provides 64 input
and 64 output channels at 48kHz or 96kHz to the SoundGrid Network with two Ethercon ports. The DMI card connects to
a SoundGrid host, which controls I/O devices, drivers, and an optional SoundGrid DSP server. DMI Waves is compatible
with DiGiCo S-Series, Quantum Range, SD12, Orange Box and 4REA4.
DMI Waves allows easy integration of Waves plugins. One Ethercon port on the card can be connected to a computer
running Waves SuperRack SoundGrid, and the other connected to a Waves server or additional I/O. The DMI-Waves
can also be used in the Orange Box to run a virtual soundcheck on an Optocore loop.
A SoundGrid I/O device is part of a SoundGrid network. SoundGrid is the Waves high-speed networking protocol for
moving audio, clock, and other information between a host system and I/O devices—and between I/O devices
themselves. A SoundGrid host configures the network, assigning servers and I/O devices to mix, process, or record,
depending on the host. SoundGrid I/Os link to the SoundGrid network with standard Ethernet cable.
SoundGrid is scalable. Connect one I/O device to a DAW and you have a high-quality sound card. Add more I/Os and
your system becomes more flexible and powerful. Depending on the host application, a SoundGrid host can assign up to
sixteen I/O devices. Complete SoundGrid systems can be networked together to share devices.
Add a server to a SoundGrid system to offload plugin processing from the host CPU to a SoundGrid DSP server. This
dramatically increases processing power and enables greater plugin counts—it also provides very low system latency.
