Focusrite REDNET 5 User manual

User Guide

FA0773-01

www.focusrite.com

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS

1. Read these instructions.

2. Keep these instructions.

3. Heed all warnings.

4. Follow all instructions.

5. Do not use this apparatus near water.

6. Clean only with dry cloth.

7. Do not block any ventilation openings. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’s instructions.

8. Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including ampliﬁers) that produce heat.

9. Do not defeat the safety purpose of the polarized or grounding-type plug. A polarized plug has two blades with one wider than the other. A grounding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong. The wide blade or the third prong are provided for your safety. If the provided plug does not ﬁt into your outlet, consult an electrician for replacement of the obsolete outlet.

10. Protect the power cord from being walked on or pinched particularly at plugs, convenience receptacles, and the point where they exit from the apparatus.

11. Only use attachments/accessories speciﬁed by the manufacturer.

12. Use only with the cart, stand, tripod, bracket, or table speciﬁed by the manufacturer, or sold with the apparatus.

13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long periods of time.

14. Refer all servicing to qualiﬁed service personnel. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped.

15. No naked ﬂames, such as lighted candles, should be placed on the apparatus.

The appliance coupler is used as the disconnect device, the disconnect device shall remain readily operable.

Do not use a damaged or frayed power cord.

If the mains plug supplying the apparatus incorporates a fuse then it should only be replaced with a fuse of identical or lower rupture value.

The apparatus shall be connected to a mains socket outlet with a protective earthing connection.

FIN

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NOR

Apparatet må tikoples jordet stikkontakt

SWE

Apparaten skall anslutas till jordat uttag

When a cart is used, use caution when moving the cart/apparatus combination to avoid injury from tip-over.

CAUTION: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT REMOVE COVER (OR BACK). NO USER-SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE.

REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED SERVICE PERSONNEL.

The lightning ﬂash with arrowhead symbol, within equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the presence of uninsulated “dangerous voltage” within the product’s enclosure that may be of sufﬁcient magnitude to constitute a risk of electric shock to persons.

The exclamation point within an equilateral triangle is intended to alert the user to the presence of important operating and maintenance (servicing) instructions in the literature accompanying the appliance.

WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT EXPOSE THIS APPARATUS TO RAIN OR MOISTURE AND

OBJECTS FILLED WITH LIQUIDS, SUCH AS VASES, SHOULD NOT BE PLACED ON THIS APPARATUS.

ENVIRONMENTAL DECLARATION

Compliance Information Statement: Declaration of Compliance procedure

Product Identiﬁcation: Focusrite RedNet

Responsible party: American Music and Sound

Address: 4325 Executive Drive

Suite 300

Southhaven, MS 38672

Telephone: (800) 431-2609

This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

For USA

To the User:

1. Do not modify this unit! This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual, meets FCC requirements. Modiﬁcations not expressly approved by Focusrite may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to use this product.

2. Important: This product satisﬁes FCC regulations when high quality shielded cables are used to connect with other equipment. Failure to use high quality shielded cables or to follow the installation instructions within this manual may cause magnetic interference with appliances such as radios and televisions and void your FCC authorization to use this product in the USA.

3. Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures:

• Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.

• Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver.

• Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is connected.

• Consult the dealer or an experienced radio/TV technician for help.

For Canada

To the User:

This Class B digital apparatus complies with Canadian ICES-003.

Cet appareil numérique de la classe B est conforme à la norme NMB-003 du Canada.

RoHS Notice

Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited has conformed and its product conforms to the European Union’s Directive 2002/95/EC on

Restrictions of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) as well as the following sections of California law which refer to RoHS, namely sections

25214.10, 25214.10.2, and 58012, Health and Safety Code; Section 42475.2, Public Resources Code.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS ..............................................2

ENVIRONMENTAL DECLARATION ................................................. 3

INTRODUCTION ................................................................5

Pro Tools|HD compatibility .....................................................5

About this User Guide .........................................................6

Box Contents ................................................................6

Registering your product ......................................................6

INSTALLATION GUIDE ...........................................................7

Unit connections and features ..................................................7

RedNet 5 - Front Panel ..........................................................7

RedNet 5 - Rear Panel...........................................................8

Physical Characteristics .......................................................9

Power requirements ..........................................................9

OTHER REDNET SYSTEM COMPONENTS .......................................... 10

INTERFACING TO PRO TOOLS.................................................... 10

Pro Tools Setup .............................................................13

Sample Rate ..................................................................13

Using RedNet 5 with other Pro Tools|HD interfaces..................................13

Setting the clock source ........................................................14

REDNET CONTROL............................................................. 17

Hosting RedNet Control ......................................................17

Using RedNet Control ........................................................17

RedNet 5 Control Panel.........................................................18

APPENDIX.................................................................... 20

Connector pinouts ...........................................................20

Performance Speciﬁcations ...................................................21

Focusrite RedNet Warranty and Service .........................................22

Customer Support and Unit Servicing ...........................................23

Troubleshooting ............................................................23

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for purchasing this Focusrite RedNet 5.

RedNet 5 is a multichannel, bi-directional digital audio interface, which allows an Avid® Pro Tools|HD system to be connected to a RedNet digital audio networking system.

RedNet is a powerful, low latency, digital audio networking system designed speciﬁcally for music and recording studio applications. It is based on Audinate’s Dante™, a well-established audio networking technology known for its extreme robustness. Dante - and the RedNet system - is capable of transporting up to 512 channels of bidirectional audio (at 48 kHz sample rate) over standard Cat6 Ethernet cable. RedNet 5 allows any 96 channels of these to be routed in and out of a Pro Tools|HD system, or 192 channels with a Pro Tools|HDX system (at 48 kHz or 96 kHz sample rates; channel counts are halved at 192 kHz).

A single RedNet 5 unit acts as a 64 channel (32 inputs plus 32 outputs) digital break-in/break-out box between a Pro Tools system and a RedNet network. Connectivity between RedNet 5 and Pro Tools is via Pro Tool’s standard DigiLink connectors; an adaptor cable is included to allow compatibility with Pro Tools|HD systems that use the Mini DigiLink connectors. Connectivity between RedNet 5 and other RedNet units is via Ethernet, over Cat6 cable. Several other RedNet system interfaces are available which provide physical analogue or digital audio I/O; thus by including one or more RedNet 5 units in a RedNet network, audio sources of any format, at any location in the system can provide inputs to the Pro Tools system, and similarly, Pro Tools outputs can be distributed over the RedNet network to wherever they are required.

Up to six RedNet 5 units may be used with a Pro Tools|HDX system (three with Pro Tools|HD). This permits ProTool HDX’s maximum channel count of 192 inputs and 192 outputs (96 with Pro Tools|HD) to be achieved, with all audio being conveyed to/from the RedNet 5 units via the RedNet network. RedNet 5 is also provided with word clock input and output connectors which permit the unit to be either a master or slave to other digital audio devices outside the RedNet network. The various clocking options are explained in detail in this User Guide.

The front panel has LEDs conﬁrming the unit’s network status, sample rate and operating mode, together with signal level LEDs for each group of four digital inputs and outputs.

Pro Tools|HD compatibility

RedNet 5 is only compatible with Pro Tools|HD and Pro Tools|HDX systems.

The following Pro Tools cards are supported:

• Pro Tools|HD PCI

• Pro Tools|HD PCIe

• Pro Tools|HD Accel PCIe

• Pro Tools|HDX

• Pro Tools|HD Native

• Pro Tools|HD Native Thunderbolt

About this User Guide

This User Guide applies only to the RedNet 5 Pro Tools|HD/HDX interface. It provides information about installing a RedNet 5 and how to connect it into your studio system.

We recommend that you also download a copy of the RedNet System User Guide, using the product registration card provided. This Guide provides a detailed explanation of the RedNet system concept, to help you achieve a thorough understanding of its capabilities. We recommend that all users, including those already experienced in digital audio networking, take the time to read through the System User Guide so that you are fully aware of all the possibilities that RedNet and its software has to offer.

If either User Guide does not provide the information you need, be sure to consult

www.focusrite.com/rednet, which contains a comprehensive collection of common technical support

queries.

Box Contents

• RedNet 5 unit

• RedNet 5 System Guide

• 2 m Cat6 Ethernet cable

• DigiLink (M) to Mini DigiLink (F) adaptor cable

• IEC AC mains cable

• Product registration card with Bundle Code. Registration gives access to:

• RedNet Control

• RedNet drivers (installed with RedNet Control)

• Audinate Dante Controller (installed with RedNet Control)

• Dante Virtual Soundcard token and download instructions

• RedNet 5 User Guide (this document) in PDF format

• RedNet System User Guide in PDF format

Registering your product

For technical support, and access to various downloadable resources, please register your product at: www.focusrite.com/register. You will need the Bundle Code on the Product registration card to do this.

INSTALLATION GUIDE

Unit connections and features

RedNet 5 - Front Panel

1. AC Power switch

2. INPUTS – inputs to the network (i.e., outputs from Pro Tools|HD). Eight tricolour LEDs indicating the signal level in four consecutively-numbered channels; the colour indicates the highest signal in the four. Individual LEDs indicating signal level at each analogue input:

• Green: signal present

• Amber: -6 dBFS

• Red: 0 dBFS

3. OUTPUTS – outputs from the network (i.e., inputs to Pro Tools|HD). Eight LEDs indicating the signal level in the output channels; these function in the same manner as the input channel LEDs [2]

4. NETWORK status ﬂags – two green LEDs conﬁrming network status:

• CONNECTED – illuminates when the unit is connected to an active Ethernet network

• LOCKED – illuminates when a valid sync is received via the network or an external source

5. SAMPLE RATE indication – ﬁve yellow LEDs; only one of these (44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96 kHz, 192 kHz) will be lit at a time, to conﬁrm the sample rate that the system is running at.

6. MODE indicators – two yellow LEDs conﬁrming the Pro Tools interface mode:

• PRIMARY – the normal operating mode, in which RedNet 5 appears to Pro Tools as two external 16 channel interfaces.

• EXPANSION – this mode should be selected from RedNet Control when the rear Panel EXPANSION port is in use. RedNet 5 will now appear to Pro Tools as a single 16 channel interface. This mode should also be used when RedNet 5 is connected to the expansion port of a 16 channel Pro Tools|HD device.

7. POWER LED

RedNet 5 - Rear Panel

9 811 10 1213

8. PRIMARY – DigiLink connector; use a standard Pro Tools I/O cable to link this to a port on the Pro Tools|HD/HDX PCIe card, using the supplied DigiLink-to-Mini DigiLink adaptor cable if necessary.

9. EXPANSION – this can be used when RedNet 5 is operated in Expansion Mode to connect to another Pro Tools|HD I/O interface. In this mode, the RedNet 5 provides only 16 channels of I/O (16 in, 16 out) instead of 32.

10. WORD CLOCK IN – a BNC socket for the connection of a dedicated wordclock sync signal, typically derived from a studio master clock source used to sync all the interconnected digital audio units in the system.

11. WORD CLOCK OUT – a BNC socket from which a wordclock signal may be obtained for connection to other digital audio devices outside the RedNet network. The clock signal available here will be derived from the source selected in software, and may be at the sample rate in use, or at the ‘base’ sample rate of 44.1 kHz or 48 kHz.

12. LOOP SYNC IN and OUT– two BNC sockets which should be used for sync interconnection when standard Pro Tools I/O units also form part of the system. Connect the LOOP SYNC OUT of one RedNet 5 unit to the LOOP SYNC IN of a Pro Tools|HD I/O interface, in a standard daisychain manner. See page 15 for further LOOP SYNC connection details.

13. ETHERNET – RJ45 network socket. Use a Cat5e or Cat6 network cable to connect this socket to a local Ethernet switch to connect the RedNet 5 to the RedNet network. The socket has integral LEDs which illuminate to indicate connection to an active network port, and network activity. See page 20 for connector details.

14. AC mains inlet –standard IEC receptacle for connection of AC mains. RedNet 5 has a ‘Universal’ PSU, enabling it to operate from any supply voltages between 100 V and 240 V.

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