OFFLINE Ferrofish Pulse 16 MX CV AD/DA Converter with DC-Coupled

Full Description

Unrivalled sound quality

Experience the sound of world-class components with the Pulse 16 MX CV. Utilising the latest advancements in technology, the Pulse 16 MX CV features Cirrus Logic converters to produce a completely neutral and transparent sound to expand your recording system with complete accuracy without colouration. Combined with a proprietary active jitter reduction circuit, you can expect to hear every detail and nuance of your audio signals with crystal clear clarity, free from any unwanted distortion or colouration. Whether you're working in 48kHz, 96kHz or 192kHz, the Pulse 16 MX CV will always deliver optimum sound quality throughout each channel you use.

Intuitive software control

For additional control and flexibility over your Pulse 16 DX, Ferrofish have developed the RemoteFish application for both Mac and PC. This provides you to have an extension of your user interface for full control over all input and output gains, channel routing, adjustment of settings and saving and loading of presets.

Complete monitoring solution

In order to make sure you can effectively monitor the input and output gains of your signal, the Pulse 16 DX CV provides you with two highly accurate TFT screens to give you visual feedback of your input and output levels. As well as this, a premium quality headphone output is provided to make sure you can hear every detail of your signal to make sure you don't run into any clipping or unwanted distortion artefacts.

Immacualte conversion with DC-coupled outputs

Building on the success of the predecessor, the Pulse 16 MX continues to push what's possible by providing you DC-coupled outputs. With this flexibility, you can send the outputted audio signals to a host of other equipment such as hardware synthesizers and modular Eurorack synthesizers. By doing this, you can not only expand the number of channels within your recording system, but you can process these in new ways that until now was not possible.

Offering you a tremendous range of functionality, the Pulse 16 MX CV gives you an expansive range of additional channels to add to your recording system. Four ADAT I/O ports provide a full range of 16 x 16 operation as well as MADI I/O and the 16 x 16 analog inputs gives you the flexibility to connect to analog or digital systems with ease.

Features

• Immaculate audio quality thanks to Cirrus Logic converters
• Ultra-high audio fidelity up to 96kHz sampling frequency at 24 bit
• 16 x 16 balanced, analog inputs and outputs
• 16 x 16 ADAT I/O channels through 2 x 2 TOSLINK ports
• Full 16 x 16 analog channel count even when at double rates in SMUX at 96kHz
• Highly stable worldclock via BNC
• MIDI I/O for remote control
• Two accurate and detailed TFT screens for visual monitoring
• Active jitter reduction circuit
• Stepped analog input in 1dB steps from -8dBu to +20dBu
• Stepped analog output in 1dB steps from -8dBu to +20dBu
• Discrete headphone output
• Silent operation thanks to fanless design
• Constructed from rugged, solid metal chassis

Specifications

MADI I/O (AES10)

• PULSE 16 MX (Multimode included)
• PULSe 16 optional via SFP
• SFP port for MADI optical Multimode or Singlemode SFP module
• 64 channels @32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz
• 32 channels @64kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz
• 16 channels @128kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz
• Support of MIDI over MADI.
• Latency: 2 samples

Analog Inputs (AD)

• 2 x CS5368 (Cirrus Logic)
• 16 x TRS ¼” (6.3mm), female
• Analog switches: +20dBu, +13dBu, +4dBu
• Digital gain: +20dBu … -8dBu, 1dB steps
• Latency:
  • 48kHz: 12/fs, 0.25ms
  • 96kHz: 9/fs, 0.09ms
  • 192kHz: 5/fs, 0.03ms

Headphones

• 1 x ¼” (6.3mm) TRS jack, stereo
• Selectable mono or stereo source
• Digitally controlled volume level

ADAT I/O

• Four + Four optical ports (8 channels each with 48 kHz)
• 16 channels @32kHz, 44.1kHz, 48kHz
• 16 channels @64kHz, 88.2kHz, 96kHz
• 8 channels @128kHz, 176.4kHz, 192kHz (SMUX4 – only with installed MADI MX option)
• Latency: 2 samples

MIDI I/O

• 2 x DIN5 connector for remote control of the unit
• Conversion MIDI MIDI over MADI possible (MADI MX option required.)

Wordclock I/O

• BNC: 1 x input, 1 x output
• 75 Ohm Termination switchable for input

Power Supply

• Power requirements: 12V, 3A
• 1 x input jack with screw lock
• Internal resettable polyfuse
• 1 x power supply included

Internal Clock

• TCXO (temp. compensated oscillator) with high accuracy.
• Initial accuracy: +/-1.5ppm
• Over temperature range: +/-2.5ppm
• Aging: +/-1ppm

PLL

• Digitally controlled PLL / Jitter reduction system
• Output jitter: 50ps, 100ps typ.

LCD Displays

• 2 x TFT Color Screens for the complete control of all analog I/O levels and all settings of the unit
• One Key Control provides an easy control of all functions.
• Multi language help pages guides available (No need to study the manual.)

General

• OpAmps: RC4580
• Level indicator: TFT screen, 28 levels
• Dimensions: 1U, 19cm deep
• Weight: 2 kg
• Product code: FER-PULSE16-MX-CV