Taken from working machine, smoke free studio. All tested and works like a dream.Pro Tools TDM quality dsp efx plugins.Waves Y56K card for Yamaha aw4416 and AW2816 digital desks/consoles. Here is some info and a review.....The Impossible Has Just Become Easy For Those Seeking Top-Level Processing Power The Waves Y56K is an expansion card for Yamaha's AW4416 and AW2816 all-in-one recorders. It provides powerful DSP processing via Waves's famous plug-ins, and includes the True Verb reverb, L1 Ultramaximizer, the Renaissance Equalizer and Compressor, the Super Tap delay, and the Waves De-Esser. The Y56K also provides A DAT optical I/O jacks for 8 channels of 24-bit digital transfer.InstallationThe Waves Y56K card goes into one of the Mini-YGDAI slots on the AW4416 or AW2816 In useOperation of the Waves Y56K card is pretty simple. Select the channel into which you want to insert an effect and hit the View key to display that channel's information. Scroll over to the Effect Insert box, highlight the Assign box, and hit Enter. This will display the effect insert settings box. You have the option of inserting the AW's built-in effect processors, an "external" effect (in this case, the Waves card), or no effect at all.Select External, and then route the send and return of the insert to one of the eight Banks in the Waves card (SLT-1 for our example). Then you press Patch and select the plug-in screen to activate and tweak the processors.The first screen you see from Waves displays the 8 Banks, each with 5 boxes to install plug-ins into. There are two columns of options besides the 5 boxes. SRC (source) selects between processing internal AW tracks and using the ADAT I/O, and Grp selects Mono or Stereo.The Plug-insTrue Verb: True Verb is Waves's premier reverb processor and has been a staple of DAW setups for quite a while now, thanks to its excellent room simulations. The AW version provides a graphic display giving a representation of the room sizes, with controls for reverb time, dimension, distance, input gain, predelay, balance, absortion, and separate controls for HF and LF adjustments and a HP filter.L1 Ultra Maximizer: Waves's famous brick wall limiter has threshold, release, and output celling adjustments. The L1 also has IDR (Increased Digital Resolution) dither with adjustable output bit rate, dither type and noise shaping.Renaissance Compressor: The Ren-Comp provides a simulation of classic optical compression. It has control for threshold, ratio, gain, attack, release. There is also an autorelease mode, a Warm preset (for simulated tube warmth) and an Electro setting that switches between emulating an optical compressor or a VCA-based compressor.Renaissance Equalizer: The Ren-EQ is a digital emulation of high-quality analog eq. It provides 6 bands of eq, all fully parametric, with gain, frequency, and Q adjustments and filter typesthe bottom three have highpass, bell and low shelf types and the top three high shelf, lowpass, and bell.Super Tap Delay: The SuperTap Delay provides a very powerful and flexible multitap delay effect. There is a pan graph for displaying the location and amplitude of the individual taps, a frequency modulator, output gain control, individual control of the taps (on/off, gain, delay time, and rotation), filtering, feedback, and a delay grid that diplays the delay times in BPM and milliseconds. The SuperTap delay provides a maximum delay time of 1.2 seconds.DeEsser: The DeEsser provides quality sibilance control. There are controls for threshold, attenuation and output display, an option for wideband or split-band compression modes (split provides two-band multiband compression), a sidechain filter frequency control, a sidechain filter mode control (highpass or lowpass) and an option to monitor the side chain input or the processed signal.ADAT and suchThe Y56K also has 24-bit ADAT optical input and output. The signal being processed always appears at the ADAT outputs and routing inputs is simply a matter of changing the SRC column of the Waves control screen to ADAT.So…To say that the Waves Y56K plug-ins sound just like their TDM (Time-Division Multiplexing, Digidesign's hardware plug-in standard) equivalents would be accurate, considering the DSP chip used in the Y56K is the same as the one used in TDM systems. All the processors are high-quality without any digital graininess or grunge.The Waves Y56K expansion card gives the AW4416 and AW2816 some serious top-level processing to complement their already extensive feature sets. If you're looking for a way to get the benefits of some famous processing plug-ins without using a computer, the impossible has just become easy.Price: $1049More from: Yamaha Corp. of America6600 Orangethorpe, Buena Park, CA 90620714/522-9011, fax 714/522-9522www.yamaha.com