Description
The ASI6685 professional PCIe sound card is designed for use in an Axia Livewire IP-audio based radio broadcast facility. Livewire is a technology used to transmit low-delay audio over switched Ethernet.
Providing up to 16 play streams that are mixed to 8 stereo outputs and 16 record streams fed from 8 stereo inputs, the ASI6685 features AudioScience’s unique “anything to anywhere” mixing and routing.
A choice of uncompressed PCM, MPEG layer 2 and MP3 is available for both recording and playback. All compression is handled by an on-board floating point DSP, allowing the host computer to focus on other tasks.
DSP based functionality includes MRX™ multi-rate mixing technology that allows streams of different sample-rates and formats to be mixed.
TSX™ time scaling provides compression/expansion of any or all playback streams in real time with no change in pitch.
For emerging surround sound applications, SSX™ mode allows multichannel streams of up to 8 channels to be played, recorded and mixed.
Key Features
- 4, 8, 12, or 16 streams of mono/stereo playback into 8 stereo Livewire streams
- 4, 8, or 16 streams of mono/stereo record from 8 stereo Livewire streams
- Formats include PCM, MPEG layer 2 and MP3 with sample rates from 8kHz to 96kHz
- MRX™ technology, mix multiple formats and sample rates
- TSX time scaling by up to +/-20%
- Two SSX2™ streams for multichannel record and playback
- Short length PCIe card format (168mm)
- Up to 4 cards in one system
- Windows and Linux software drivers available
