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User Guide
DAWs With Proprietary Soundcards
S
ome DAWs can only receive audio via their own proprietary soundcard hardware. Many of these soundcards provide
d
igital (S/PDIF) connections, allowing you to take full advantage of the SSL quality pre-amps and converters. The two
N
ucleus
2
i
nput channels are sent using the left and right channels of the S/PDIF Out, and the S/PDIF In feeds the monitor
i
nputs.
I
f your S/PDIF connections are coaxial (usually using phono sockets), simple coaxial to optical S/PDIF converters will
b
e required to connect the soundcard digitally to the Nucleus
2
P
RE
(
pre-amp) outputs.
Using Nucleus
2
’s Digital IO
Ethernet
(DAW control
and Remote)
USB
(DAW keyboard
commands)
Optical to
coax adaptor
S/PDIF
(digital
audio)
DAW
Computer
Recording
Sources
Mains
Power
Monitoring
Headphones
MP3
Player