[Kenmillerjr]

Hey guys....

I am wondering if any of you had a solution for something I had experimented with today. I have a VENUE FOH/Stage system with 2 MADI cards installed. I downed a DM1000 we have in the shop. I dropped in a MY16-MD64 card, MADI in worked great from the Venue. (Just always remember that beloved Word Clock. It seemed to have some jitter every once in awhile)

The problem came when I tried returning the output to the VENUE. This is the desired setup, utilizing the outputs on VENUE's stage rack. Since the DM1000 only has the capabilities of 32 channels in the card slots (16 per each card, 2 cards max) I was stuck trying to send the outputs to channels 49-64, since 32 was the max channel it would see on MADI.

I did get it to work, luckily. It is not ideal, but it seems to me Yamaha looks for the hardest solution for an easy problem. I output the mains via MADI channels 1 & 2, then just placed the OUTPUT coaxial from the DM1000 on the IN on the second MADI card on the Venue. I then reconfigured VENUE to see the second MADI card as "Input mode" and sure enough, the return was coming down those lines. I'm thinking about doing the same setup with a PM5D in the morning, and seeing if I have better luck using just one MADI card for both inputs and returns, since that desk is capable of more I/O in the card slots.

Has anyone else ran into this/found an easier work around? Either way, it is pretty slick, and is a very easy setup to administer.