User manual M-AUDIO DMAN 2044

[. . . ] 1 DMAN 2044 TM MANUAL Version 2044-070799 Contents FCC Class B/CE Compliance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 What's In the Box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Quick Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] IMPORTANT: You MUST restart your computer after doing this for the new driver to be properly installed. IMPORTANT: Please make sure that only one copy of the driver is installed in the Extensions folder. Any older versions should be removed from the folder before you install a new driver. IMPORTANT: A preferences file is created for the card in the Preferences folder inside the System folder every time you first install a new driver and then restart your computer. For proper installation, you MUST remove both the file called "MM2044 Preferences" in the Preferences folder and the older driver in the Extensions folder. ASIO Driver Installation for Cubase VERY IMPORTANT: If you are using Cubase and want to install the ASIO driver you MUST also install the Sound Manager Driver mentioned above. So please refer to the section above, and make sure that the Sound Manager driver is properly installed before you continue on with the ASIO driver installation. VERY IMPORTANT: If you are using the 2044 ASIO driver and Cubase you MUST do the following after you have installed the Apple Sound Manager Driver as mentioned above: Go into the Sound Control Panel and make sure that the DMAN2044 is NOT selected as either the record or playback device. You should probably set the playback and record devices to "Built-in". If mistakenly, the DMAN 2044 is set up as the playback or record device in the Sound Control Panel, the Mac attempts to establish two sets of resources for the DMAN 2044 and the sound performance of the card will be compromised. If you are using Cubase you will need to install the appropriate ASIO driver which is also included on the DMAN2044 driver disk. To do this, the correct ASIO driver needs to be put into the ASIO folder of the Cubase program. This version is to be used if you are using any 3. xx version of Cubase. The other is entitled ASIO 2044 v4, and it is to be used if you're using any 4. xx version of Cubase. If you are using Cubase VST version 3. xx, drag ASIO 2044 v3 into the ASIO folder inside of the main Cubase 22 folder. If you are using Cubase VST version 4. xx drag ASIO 2044 v4 into the ASIO folder inside of the main Cubase folder. If the correct DMAN2044 ASIO driver is not placed inside of the ASIO folder you will not be able to properly access the DMAN2044 from within Cubase. For Cubase 3. xx Cubase and ASIO supports multiple drivers and devices. So even if you have installed the DMAN2044 ASIO driver, you must make sure it is properly selected as the "active" driver. To do this (after you have properly copied the ASIO driver into the ASIO folder) you need to bring up the "System" dialog box which is under the Audio menu. You need to make sure that "ASIO 2044" is selected and displayed under this pull down menu. If this is not done, the DMAN2044 will not function as your active sound card device. [. . . ] A D/A converter takes numeric (digital) data as its input, then converts it and outputs it as analog audio. A processor optimized and tweaked for use with complex signals such as audio. If you are using a multi-track digital recording program, this is a very important feature. Full-duplex would, for example, allow you to hear previously recorded vocal tracks while you are recording the harmonies. [. . . ]