KENTON PLUGSTATION USERS MANUAL
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send the PLG cards out of individual analogue or ADAT optical output ports to a suitable mixing desk. It is
good practice not to try and send to both at the same time, as you can get undesired effects such as
doubling of sounds, or phasing (the phase offset is minimal but measurable) as you will be sending the
same board both out of an ultra clean 24-bit analogue or ADAT port on PLUGSTATION, and also back
through the SW1000XG mixer and DSP, and then out of its outputs (analogue or SPDIF). Please refer to
your appropriate software (such as XGPAD from www.xgpad.com
) or to the section on front panel editing, to
avoid routing the PLG cards back to the SW1000XG (each card has control for the level being sent to
individual outputs or the SW1000XG as detailed in the section on “Front Panel Editing”
You begin to see now though, just how powerful PLUGSTATION really is, as a very flexible DSP based
mixer, routing system.
Here we can see the SW1000XG audio outs into channels 1&2 on a suitable mixer, channels 3-10 are
coming from the analogue outs of the Y-BOARD on PLUGSTATION. (If you want to be really flash, you
could also take the same 8 outs to the ADAT port on a suitable mixer (say channels 11-18), and apply
different effects or EQ treatments to the PLG cards at the same time as those being applied on channels 3-
10)
NOTE: THE SVOL COMMAND FOR EACH BOARD CONTROLS THE RETURN VOLUME LEVEL TO
SW1000XG FOR EACH BOARD. IF YOU WANT NO SIGNAL PASSING BACK FROM THE BOARDS TO
THE SW1000XG SET THIS OR THE GLOBAL SVOL LEVEL TO ZERO.
MORE NOTES ON EFFECTS AND LEVEL CONTROL WITH THE SW1000XG: The SW1000XG was only
technically designed to be the host for 1 PLG card at any one time. The inherent design limitation of this is
that you only have a 2 channel return path coming back into the card. The way that PLUGSTATION gets
around this is by incorporating advanced DSP processing into the main circuits of PLUGSTATION which mix
and multiplex the 4 cards into a single phase locked, synchronised 2 channel feed, which then goes back
down the 44-WAY D-SUB to the SW1000XG.
The SW1000XG however, still only thinks it has one card connected, and thus is fine with the incoming feed
and other data lines. The problem with this is that only having a 2-channel feed means that you only have
control in terms of effects processing through the SW1000XG for 2 channels. This is why the
PLUGSTATION has individual output options, to allow (as would be the case with many devices) you add
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