Yamaha DS2416

[Jakl]

Has anyone had experience or is using this audiocard ever?

Any constant problems in macos9?

Thanks

[macStuff]

sad noone even bothered to respond,
i would like to read a review of this card, if anyone has any experience to share thanks

[teroyk]

sad noone even bothered to respond, clearly theres not many "Audio Enthusiasts"
i would like to read a review of this card, if anyone has any experience to share thanks

You can even put two of them in one Mac, and you also can have
it with Yamaha SW1000-XG card and ADAT-option so it can need one or four slots.

It doesn't have MIDI like Yamaha SW1000-XG, so you cannot control it with MIDI. So if somebody have any programming
information for DS2416 then I am really interested in to make little program that you can control the driver with MIDI.

It has 20-bit A/D and D/A, 24-bit SPDIF I/O and 32-bit internal effects and mixing, 56-bit EQ calculation and you can even record and play in 32-bit those internally processes, if your software support 32-bit recording.

Last ASIO driver for Mac OS 9.2.2, you find here:
http://www.yamahaproaudio.com/global/en/downloads/firmware_software/dspfactory/
Inside package there is 32-bit driver and 16-bit driver for some older 16-bit only apps.
Card should work with every Mac with PCI-slot that can boot to Mac OS 9, maybe older drivers with older macs too.

[Astroman]

iirc there was a special Logic version supporting this card, basically one of Yamaha's mixers on a PCI card (without the analog control elements of course)
I was interested for a short while, but choose a Creamware Scope card instead.
Best buy ever, still in daily use for > 15 years.

Considering current prices for Digidesign TDM gear I wouldn't bother too much, but back in the days it was useful for shure. No cheapo either...

[teroyk]

Card should work with every Mac with PCI-slot that can boot to Mac OS 9, maybe older drivers with older macs too.

Actually remember that somewhere was information about older drivers that works Mac OS 8.6 and System 7.6. So I think it works all PCI-slot PPC Macs (not G5). I have tested only with Mac OS 9.2.2 with G4 and I don't have those old drivers.

[macStuff]

the card requires a 5v slot so it will not work in any g5

[dread03]

Hallo, i test a ds2416 together with cubase vst 5.1 in a g4 mdd. 
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[IsoMacintosh]

iirc there was a special Logic version supporting this card, basically one of Yamaha's mixers on a PCI card (without the analog control elements of course)
I was interested for a short while, but choose a Creamware Scope card instead.
Best buy ever, still in daily use for > 15 years.

Considering current prices for Digidesign TDM gear I wouldn't bother too much, but back in the days it was useful for shure. No cheapo either...

Regular logic has a setting for DS2416 so i don't think there was a special version, though it will be some time before i get my cards to test it out.

[damo-blak]

I know this is an old thread but these cards are very nice sounding indeed,
if you can get it working you will be rewarded with a warm detailed sound,
the only down side is latency under a windows XP system was a little
high for me,it has a very good sounding efx system built in,
the breakout box makes it much more usable,i used to use a sw1000xg
also,its a good system using both together and was very flexible.

When I went m-audio after it was a big downgrade in audio quality,
however I had better latency so it was swings and roundabouts.

I still own both the sw1000xg and ds2416.

[teroyk]

I know this is an old thread but these cards are very nice sounding indeed,
if you can get it working you will be rewarded with a warm detailed sound,
the only down side is latency under a windows XP system was a little
high for me,

Latency was big because WinXP.

it has a very good sounding efx system built in,
the breakout box makes it much more usable,i used to use a sw1000xg
also,its a good system using both together and was very flexible.

DS2416 has interesting features to use with sw1000xg, I remember that
there was somekind 8-channel fx-mixer program for combo, but it was only Win98 and
sadly pages of that and editor are gone and I didn't get programmers name.

When I went m-audio after it was a big downgrade in audio quality,
however I had better latency so it was swings and roundabouts.

I still own both the sw1000xg and ds2416.

Put them to Mac...Cubase and Logic support it, but not two ds2416 cards, although drivers should support it even with SW1000XG.
And one thing: SW1000XG has to be always clock master, if somebody knows how to make DS2416 clock master with SW1000XG, please tell me how.