Connecting the FireWire Audiophile
ATTENTION: You must shut down your computer any time you wish to connect
or disconnect the FireWire Audiophile from the system. Failure to do so may
cause damage to your computer's or FireWire Audiophile's FireWire ports.
Audio
Connect the FireWire Audiophile's Line Outputs 1 and 2 to your amplifier,
powered monitors or mixer. For two-channel stereo operation, the default
outputs are channels 1 and 2. (You may change this in the FireWire Audiophile
control panel if you desire.) You can also connect the FireWire Audiophile's
four line outputs to a stand-alone mixer.
Connect your headphones to the FireWire Audiophile's headphone outputs.
Connect your CD deck, turntable preamp or other line level analog source to
the FireWire Audiophile's analog line inputs 1 and 2.
Connect your S/PDIF digital devices to the FireWire Audiophile's coaxial
digital I/O.
MIDI
Connect your MIDI device's MIDI Input to the FireWire Audiophile's MIDI
Output. Connect your MIDI device's MIDI Output to the FireWire Audiophile's
MIDI Input.
Shown in the illustration below is a MIDI controller keyboard plugged into the
FireWire Audiophile's MIDI input. A MIDI sound module is connected to the
FireWire Audiophile's MIDI output.
Using the Control Panel
The control panel gives you a powerful multi-channel software mixer with six
virtual outputs (in three stereo pairs) from your audio software. Each output
pair may be routed to any of the FireWire Audiophile's analog or digital
outputs. In addition, two mono software auxiliary sends are available per
stereo pair.
The control panel also gives you access to assigning the hardware level
controller, selecting the buffer size and master clock, and numerous other
important features.
For complete information on fully utilizing all of the FireWire Audiophile Control
Panel's features, please refer to the Users' Manual.
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