DAD AX Center Audio Interface

AX Center was born to sit in a rack right next to you in the studio, in your portable rig  – or maybe even on your desktop. It’s the audio interface that dreams are made of, as it unites the legendary audio quality of pristine Digital Audio Denmark AD & DA conversion with the renowned transparency and musicality of their mic preamps.

It’s all about capturing the source truthfully and get it into any DAW you may use exactly as it is – and to get your production out exactly as you intended, envisioned and simply heard it.

• Unmatched Sound Quality in Any Thunderbolt Audio Interface
• Tried & Trusted PRO | MON Monitor Control from Mono to Immersive
• SPQ Speaker Processing: 128 Channels with a Total of 1024 EQ Bands and Individual Channel Delay
• 256 Thunderbolt & 256 Dante Channels
• Control | Pack one-sample routing preset manager
• Tailored to Fit Any Need with Expandable & Customisable I/O

Even without utilising the expansion options, you will get access to that über-musical and finger-licking delicious audio quality that the DAD converters and preamps have been loved for by many of the world’s most acclaimed audio engineers and producers.

Technical Overview

• 2 Ch. microphone or instrument input
• Dual stereo headphone output
• Dual stereo monitor output
• A/D, D/A and D/D Converter with sample rates from 44,1 to 384 kHz and DSD
• Up to 984 Input and Output Channels
• Router and Monitoring Interface
• Thunderbolt 3 I/O (256 Ch.)
• Dante AoIP I/O (256 Ch.)
• MADI I/O (64 ch.)
• ADAT I/O (16 Ch.) / SPDIF (2 ch.)
• 2 Slots for Optional Multi-Format DAD I/O Cards
• 512×64 Ch. PRO | MON Summing and Speaker 1024 ch. EQ Processing

Features

• Thunderbolt 3 I/O (256 channels at 48 & 96 kHz)
• Dante AoIP I/O (256 channels at 48 kHz, 128 channels at 96kHz)
• MADI I/O (64 channels at 48 kHz)
• ADAT I/O (16 channels)/SPDIF (2 channels)
• Up to 256×256 channels I/O via optional cards
• Up to 256×256 channels I/O via optional module
• 512×64 channel PRO | MON monitor control
• Speaker EQ 128 channel w 16 filters
• Control | Pack for Playback Redundancy and Show Control
• 28bit floating point processing
• Avid Eucon enabled devices via DADman
• Apple macOS and Windows compatible software
• Control via Ethernet or Thunderbolt connection
• Word Clock I/O
• 15W power on each Thunderbolt 3 port

Specifications

• 2 x Thunderbolt 3 Ports w. 15W Power Source Each
• 256 Bidirectional Channels at 44.1/48 kHz
• 256 Bidirectional Channels at 88.2/96 kHz
• 128 Channels at 192 kHz
• 64 Channels at 384 kHz

Audio Drivers

macOS

• Core Audio Thunder|Core Audio Driver
• Compatible with Intel and Apple Silicon processors, as well as Big Sur macOS and forward
• Core Audio Aggregates for More Applications I/O Control Connection for DADman
• Control Connection for DADman

Windows

• ASIO Thunder|Core Audio Driver
• Compatible with Windows 10 and forward
• One Application Can Connect to the Asio Driver
• Control Connection for DADman

Key Applications

• Music Production
• Location Recording
• Immersive Audio
• Post & Film
• Mastering
• Live Sound
• House of Worship