Word clock scenarios for digital audio

The Base Station supports two clock rates: 48 kHz and 96 kHz.

You can use either the internal word clock on the Base Station or connect an external word clock.

An external word clock can also be forwarded to a downstream device via the word clock output. This feature allows you to cascade up to 8 Base Station devices.

Note that only the word clock on the word clock input can be forwarded via the word clock output. The internal word clock is not forwarded via the word clock output.

Word clock with digital audio

If multiple devices with digital audio signals are connected in a production environment, their clock signals must be synchronized via a word clock, otherwise audio errors occur. The word clock of one device becomes the master. All of the other devices become slaves and synchronize with the master.

Dante®

The Audinate Brooklyn III Dante® interface installed in the Base Station should be understood as a standalone digital audio device with its own word clock and also has to be clocked either internally or externally.

You require the Dante Controller software from Audinate for these settings. You can access it using the link: Dante Controller.

Defining the master and slave

The Base Station word clock input, the Base Station internal word clock, the word clock of the Audinate Brooklyn III Dante® interface, or the Dante® network can be defined as the master.

For LinkDesk see: Configuring interface settings.

For WebUI see: Audio Interfaces.