Blackmagic Design Fairlight PCIe Audio Accelerator
Description
Fairlight Audio Accelerator with DaVinci Resolve offers ultra low latency for up to 2000 tracks, cascading bus management with FlexBus and real time processing, and one coax MADI I/O with up to 64 inputs and outputs at 24 bit/48kHz! The single width PCIe card connects to the Fairlight Audio Interface with a proprietary interface to synchronize to house reference via the interface word clock, AES, MADI or HD Tri‑sync or reference video inputs.
Connections
MADI Inputs
1 x MADI input via 75 ohm BNC
MADI Outputs
1 x MADI output via 75 ohm BNC
MADI Expansion
Supports Fairlight Audio MADI Upgrade via SATA connectors 1, 2 and 3.
I/O Expansion
Supports Fairlight Audio Interface via multi‑pin connector on shield.
PCI Form Factor
Single half length PCIe x4 board
Fairlight Audio Accelerator
Product Specifics
Sampling
44.1, 48, 96 and 192 KHz with minimum 32 bit floating point processing.
Channel Structure
Verified using Mac Pro 7,1 with Intel CPU.
Core Audio
Track count organized from mono to 26.0.
2000 Mono Audio Tracks at 48kHz.
1000 Mono Audio Tracks at 96kHz.
500 Mono Audio Tracks at 192kHz.
Total Busses
256 Busses plus 512 Bus elements at 48kHz.
256 Busses plus 256 Bus elements at 96kHz.
256 Busses plus 128 Bus elements at 192kHz.
Record Channels
128 at 48kHz.
64 at 96kHz.
32 at 192kHz.
Additional Record Channels
When used with Core Audio plus Fairlight Accelerator.
256 at 48kHz.
128 at 96kHz.
64 at 192kHz.
Channel Facilities
Elastic wave time warping and sample rate conversion.
Six band EQ.
Expander/gate, compressor and limiter.
Up to six Resolve, VST or AU plugins.
Direct out.
Four band clip based EQ.
Up to six Resolve, VST or AU clip based plugins.
Mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1 up to 26.0 and other 3D channel formats.
In place solo.
Up to 16 VCA groups.