Digigram ALP-Dante Bedienungsanleitung

User Manual for ALP-DANTE

User Manual

ALP-Dante

Professional multi-channel sound card with

DANTE connectivity

November 2023

Author

Date

Status

SBT

20/11/2023

Release

User Manual for ALP-DANTE

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION 3

2 IMPORTANT NOTICE 4

3 BOX CONTENTS 5

4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS 5

4.1 Main hardware characteristics 5

4.2 Main software characteristics 5

5 REQUIRED CONFIGURATION 6

5.1 Required hardware conﬁguration 6

5.2 Necessary software conﬁguration under Windows 8

5.3 Necessary software conﬁguration under Linux 8

6 HARDWARE INSTALLATION 9

6.1 Preparing the card 9

6.2 Installing the card 10

6.3 Internal LEDs 10

7 SOFTWARE INSTALLATION UNDER WINDOWS 11

7.1 Very ﬁrst installation 11

7.2 Updating the driver version 12

7.3 Updating the ﬁrmware 12

7.4 Verifying the card installation 12

7.5 Adjusting the internal latency of the card 15

7.6 Replacing a card 16

7.7 Changing the order of installed cards 16

8 UNINSTALLING THE DRIVER UNDER WINDOWS 17

9 CONFIGURING THE CARD UNDER WINDOWS VIA THE ALP-X MANAGER APPLICATION 18

9.1 Installed ALP cards 18

9.2 Sampling clock 18

9.3 Input and output vu-meters 20

9.4 Firmware update procedure 20

9.5 Keyboard shortcuts 22

10 ASIO CONTROL PANEL for Windows 23

11 SPECIFICATIONS 25

11.1 Conﬁguration 25

11.2 Audio characteristics 25

11.3 Connectors 25

11.4 Development environment 25

12 APPENDICES 26

12.1 LED 26

12.2 Connectors 27

User Manual for ALP-DANTE

1 INTRODUCTION

This document describes the installation and use of the Digigram PCI Express ALP-Dante card under

Windows and Linux.

This card is part of the ALP-X professional sound cards range.

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 error or omission and reserves the right to make modiﬁcations and improvements without prior

notice.

Digigram and the Digigram logo, ALP-DANTE are trademarks or brand names of Digigram Digital. All other

marks are owned by their respective companies.

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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.

●The additional cables used must have their respective shielding connected at each end.

Caution

An electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage the card components. Take the

following precautions to avoid such damage when handling the card:

Connect the card and everything entering into contact with it to the earth potential by providing a

conductive surface and discharge paths. Take these precautions as a minimum:

●Unplug all power and signal sources.

●Place the card on an earthed conductive work surface.

●Connect to the earth potential using an anti-static strap or by holding an earthed object.

●Earth all the tools entering into contact with the card.

Given the shortened length of the PCI EXPRESSTM connector and the resulting lack of

mechanical stability, we strongly advise against transporting the cards installed in a

computer, unless its chassis or case has a device for holding the card ﬁrmly in place to avoid

material damage.

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3 BOX CONTENTS

Thank you for purchasing a DIGIGRAM sound card in the ALP-X range.

The box contains:

●The ALP-Dante sound card equipped with a low-proﬁle bracket (79.2 mm),

●The expansion card for 2 Eth ports equipped with a low proﬁle bracket

(the expansion card can be linked to the main board via the ﬂat ribbon cable).

●a standard height bracket (full height: 120 mm) that can be ﬁtted instead of the low proﬁle

one, and that receives the four Eth ports

4 GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

ALP-Dante is a low proﬁle PCI EXPRESSTM x1 sound card. It can be inserted into and therefore

operate in PCIe® x1, x4, x8 or x16 slots.

4.1 Main hardware characteristics

●Low proﬁle

●Two Gbps Eth ports of the main board (PCIe slot).

●Two additional ports on the expansion board.

●The main board and the expansion board can have their own low proﬁle brackets.

●The main board and the expansion board can use the same standard height bracket.

●Inter-card synchronisation

4.2 Main software characteristics

●Low latency multi-card drivers

- Wasapi/DirectSound, and ASIO under Windows

- Alsa driver under Linux

●64 playback channels & 64 recording channels at 44.1 and 48 kHz

32 playback channels & 32 recording channels at 88.2 and 96 kHz

16 playback channels & 16 recording channels at 176.4 and 192 kHz.

Simultaneous acquisition and playback in PCM (8, 16 and 24 bit)

●The available Eth ports can be used in switch or redundant mode

●"ALP-X Manager" application installed with the driver

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5 REQUIRED CONFIGURATION

5.1 Required hardware conﬁguration

There are no particular hardware restrictions in terms of PC on using the ALP card and its driver. The

PC can have standard height or low proﬁle PCIe card slots.

A PCI EXPRESSTM (PCIe®) x1, x4, x8 or x16 slot must be available to plug in the card.

The processing power and memory required depend mainly on the operating system and the

applications used on the PC.

Note: The driver of the card reports to the OS that it does not manage the Sleep mode. As a

consequence, the PC should not go to sleep mode.

In case the PC goes to sleep mode under Windows, please proceed as follows to disable the sleep

mode.

The windows sleep mode for the PCIe bus must be disabled.

Go to Windows Settings, System, and select “Power & sleep”.

Select Never” for the option “Put the computer to sleep”.

On the same window, click on “Additional power settings”.

Click on “Change plan

settings” in front of

“Balanced (recommended)”

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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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5.2 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-Dante card support page.

This driver supports all the ALP cards.

The "ALP-X Kit" installer is used to install the following components:

●a 64-bit WDM driver oﬀering the WASAPI and DirectSound application interfaces,

●an ASIO driver (32 bits and 64 bits), with its "ALP-X ASIO Settings" conﬁguration interface.

Installing this component is optional,

●the "ALP-X Manager" application, which serves to adjust/view the ALP-X cards settings..

Installing this component is optional.

In your Windows system, It may be necessary to allow the applications to access the input

audio devices of the sound cards.

Please proceed as follows:

●Go to the Windows Settings, and select Privacy.

●Select “Microphone”

●Activate the option “Allow apps to access your microphone” as shown here-after:

It is also necessary to have the “Windows Audio Endpoint Builder” running under Windows

so that the WASAPI audio devices can be used.. On some Windows setups, this service may

not be activated by default.

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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

then OK. Click on Cancel otherwise.

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5.3 Necessary software conﬁguration under Linux

ALP cards operate under Linux from the 64-bit Kernel 4.1x onwards (according to kernel.org).

The Alsa driver for Linux is available for download. It is supplied as a DKMS package, which can

therefore be used to compile the driver for the target Linux distribution used.

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