Digital Audio Denmark (DAD) has announced the debut of the new AX Center, a dedicated Thunderbolt modular audio interface with dual mic and instrument inputs, dual headphone and monitor outputs, built-in PRO|MON monitor control with loudspeaker EQ and two slots for DAD expansion cards.
Further, it comes with 256 Thunderbolt 3 channels, 256 Dante I/O channels, up to 192 MADI I/O channels and 16 ADAT channels, as well as onboard summing and processing.
“AX Center was born to sit in a rack right next to you in the studio – maybe even on your desktop – or in your portable recording rig,” says Mikael Vest, sales director, DAD. “Basically, it unites the distinguished audio quality of our AD & DA conversion with the transparency and musicality of our mic preamps and our flexible digital audio I/O infrastructure.
“I’m truly excited that we have united all of the sonic qualities and the versatile interface technologies that we have been developing and refining over the past decades in a compact unit that – while expandable – is extremely powerful and great-sounding right out of the box.
The PRO|MON section of the complementary DADman control software provides access to a 512 x 64 channel summing processor, while the built-in SPQ processing offers 128 channels with a total of 1024 EQ filters, as well as delay. The internal routing matrix of the DADman software spans 984 x 984 channels, allowing any input to be routed to any output, or even duplicating and routing to several different destinations simultaneously.
Finally, the Thunder|Core connection has a statedhardware latency of nine samples, 32 bit floating point resolution, and is capable of handling up to 256 bidirectional channels at 48 and 96 kHz, 128 at 192 kHz, and 64 channels at 384 kHz. It also supports Apple Silicon processors, macOS Big Sur and forward with a Core Audio driver, as well as Windows 10 and forward with an ASIO Thunder|Core driver.
MSRP: 3,695 Euro / $3,999 US. Availability: Q4 2023. Go here for more specifics.
