Manuel d'utilisation / d'entretien du produit Digital Recording Interface Delta 44 du fabricant M-Audio
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T able of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 What’ s in the Box? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 About the Delta 44 Digital Recording .
Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of the Delta 44 Digital Recording Interface designed and built by M Audio. Even if you are experienced in digital recording, please take the time to read this manual.
3 Product Features & Specifications • 4x4 24-bit/96khz full-duplex recording interface. • PCI host card with external break-out box. • 4x4 analog I/O accepts balanced or unbalanced connections on 1/4” TRS jacks. • Analog I/O configurable for +4dBu, Consumer (approximately -4dBV), and -10dBV signal levels.
Break-Out Box Front Panel: 1. Analog OUTS 1-4: These jacks output analog audio to a variety of external sources. Each jack is 1/4” TRS (T ip-Ring-Sleeve) and is compatible with 1/4” TRS (balanced) or TS (T ip-Sleeve unbalanced) connections. 2. Analog INS 1-4: These jacks input analog audio from a variety of external sources.
5 2. Start W indows and allow W indows’ Plug-and-Play to prompt you for the Delta 44 drivers via the Add New Hardware wizard. Install drivers and support software (see ‘W indows Software Installation’). 3. On the Mac, drag the Delta extension to the Extensions folder , and the appropriate ASIO driver to your application’ s ASIO folder .
6 W ith your computer turned off: 9. Place the Delta 44 break-out box on a desktop in a convenient but secure place, or mount the unit in a 19” rack-mount chassis. Rack mounting may be accomplished with a universal rack-mount tray , using a 5mm screw through the tray and into the mounting hole on the bottom of the Delta 44 break-out box.
7 5. W indows is now ready to install the driver files from the specified location. Click ‘Next>’. W indows will start to copy the files and show you a progress report screen. 6. The W izard reports that W indows has finished installing the software.
8 Windows NT 3.51 Installation 1. Install the hardware in your system, then power up your system & boot W indows NT V er 3.51. 2. Click and open the “Main” group. 3. Click and open the “Control Panel.” 4. Click on the “Drivers” icon. 5.
9 your software’ s documentation) and you will be using the Sound Manager to communicate with your Delta 44, set Sound In and Sound Out to “Delta.” See the section “Hardware Settings Page” in the Delta 44 “Control Panel Software” section for information on selecting Sound Manger inputs and outputs.
10 V erifying Delta Control Panel Software Installation In W indows, open the W indows Control Panel (do so via Start | Settings | Control Panel ). If your Delta 44 hardware and Delta Control Panel software are properly installed, the W indows Control Panel should display an “M Audio Delta H/W” icon.
11 preferred for semi-pro audio equipment and some consumer equipment that is too ‘hot’ for the ‘-10’ setting. The ‘Consumer ’ setting offers approximately 6dB more headroom than does the ‘-10’ setting.
12 Synchronization For proper operation, the entire Delta 44 system is always synchronized to a single master clock. This master clock is derived from the internal crystal oscillators.
13 each of these stereo devices down further to “left” and “right” mono devices. Most software will handle the outputs as stereo pairs but allow you to pan audio left or right within the pair . Therefore to send a mono output to OUT1 (for example), choose W avOut 1/2, then pan that track hard left.
14 Analog 1/2 Delta-44 Analog 3/4 Delta-44 WINDOWS MUL TIMEDIA SETTINGS: W indows may be set up to use the Delta 44 as its default audio device, allowing system sounds to be sent out the Delta 44. This also enables you to use the Delta 44 with the sound applets included with W indows.
15 Monitor Mixer Page The Monitor Mixer is the first page that appears when the Delta Control Panel is opened, and controls the digital mixer built into the Delta 44’ s PCI controller chip. As described in previous sections, the output of this mixer may be assigned to the OUT1/OUT2 analog outputs.
16 that is 12dB ‘quieter ’ than full-scale is referred to as “-12dB.” The meters are vertically color -coded into three sections: green, yellow and red. The green section represents a safe zone, ranging from approximately -48dB to -12dB. Most audio signals should appropriately fill this section of the meter .
17 P AN: Each mixer input is considered “mono” and may be individually panned anywhere in the stereo output mix. A pan control is positioned directly under each input channel peak meter and has the appearance of a small vertical pointer . T o make a coarse adjustment, click on the pan control with your mouse and drag it to the desired position.
18 Delta 44 board. T o display this page, click the “Patchbay/Router” tab of the Delta Control Panel. ON THE MAC: Please substitute the name “SM/ASIO” where referrences are made to “W avOut.” SM/ASIO are the software outputs on the Mac, while W avOut are the software outputs on the PC.
19 Hardware Settings Page The Hardware Settings page of the Delta Control Panel gives you control over miscellaneous features of the Delta 44. T o display this page, click the “Hardware Settings” tab of the Delta Control Panel. MASTER CLOCK: This section displays the source of the board’ s master clock: Internal Xtal (crystal).
MUL TITRACK DRIVER DEVICES: The Delta 44 drivers may intelligently synchronize the beginning of recording and playback across all audio devices on the board.
21 V ARIABLE SIGNAL LEVELS: The software switches in this section allow the user to match individual input levels and global (as in ‘all’ or ‘across the board’) output levels to the operating signal levels of the external audio equipment. Three level selections are available: +4dBu, ‘Consumer ,’ and -10dBV .
22 version. If you have Internet browsing capabilities and are currently connected to the Internet, clicking on the Midiman copyright will link you to the M Audio / Midiman web site (PC only).
23 Delta 44 Recording T utorials In this section we will explore two sample setups for recording and playback using the Delta 44 Digital Recording Interface. This is by no means an exhaustive tutorial but its intent is to help you understand most of the Delta 44’ s feature set.
24 NO TE: Because improper connections ma y potentially make very loud noises, it’ s a good idea to have all monitor levels set lo w or mu ted while hooking up audio equipment — you ma y even c hoose to turn y our computer off before making the connections.
25 5. Click on the Delta Control Panel on your W indows taskbar to maximize it. Click on the ‘Hardware Settings’ tab. 6. Under “CODEC Sample Rate,” verify that the “Rate Locked” checkbox is not activated. This will allow your application software to set the Delta 44 sample rate as it pleases.
26 Select the “Monitor Mixer” tab of the Delta Control Panel. The default Master V olume fader settings are 0dB and un-muted, and all other faders are set to full attenuation (-144dB) and muted. W e will need to adjust these to our preference. The screen capture below shows the settings that we wish to achieve.
27 Now is the time to launch your music software and set it up to record and playback audio tracks. W e’re going to speak in general terms here, since setup within software programs will vary somewhat. Minimize your Delta Control Panel so that you can easily access it from your W indows taskbar .
28 playback levels of your guitar and mic. Adjust the faders and mute controls so that you may hear the guitar and mic at the appropriate levels and mix. These are the levels at which you may monitor the pre-recorded tracks while you overdub (record other tracks while listening to the first) additional parts.
29 Notice that if we continue to overdub past track 4, we run out of W avOut devices to assign to. In this case, you may want to do some of your level mixing within the software application if it supports it.
30 1. Plug the microphones into the mic inputs 1 & 2 of the pre-amps. Plug the guitars into the high impedance inputs 3 & 4 of the pre-amps. 2.
31 6. Minimize the Delta Control Panel to the W indows taskbar . 7. Open your music software program. Set up four tracks for recording: T rack one — Left PCM In 1/2 Delta-44 T rack two — Right PCM In 1/2 Delta-44 Tr ack three — Left PCM In 3/4 Delta-44 T rack four — Right PCM In 3/4 Delta-44 8.
this were a real recording situation and you wished to add other instruments as overdubs, you might want to combine recorded tracks to one stereo pair of outputs (W avOut 1/2 Delta-44, for example). This would ‘free up’ several channels for monitoring the overdubs.
33 another available PCI slot, and turn your computer back on. More often than not, this will change the IRQ assignment of the Delta 44 when you re-enter W indows. After returning to W indows, follow the steps outlined in the “V erifying W indows Driver Installation” section of this manual.
T ypically , if you move one of the conflicting cards to another PCI slot, an IRQ conflict will disappear . Address conflicts are rare amongst PCI devices, but if there is no obvious IRQ conflict, why.
Tr oubleshooting Tips for Frequently Asked Questions Problem: No Sound. Possible Cause 1: The Delta 44 hardware or software device drivers are not properly installed. See the installation sections of this manual for further information. Possible Cause 2: There is a resource conflict between the Delta 44 and another device in your computer .
Possible Cause 3: Some accelerated graphics cards use excessive amounts of system bandwidth, preventing the recording buffer of an audio card from keeping up with demand. This can cause clicks in the recording. Reducing or turning off the graphics card’ s graphics acceleration feature often resolves this problem.
37 Appendix B -If Y ou Use An External Mixer ... Our main objective is to get the signal we want to record to the Delta 44, and to monitor the outputs from the Delta 44. The Delta 44 has a mixer contained in its PCI chip that allows you to mix hardware inputs and software outputs and send it to an analog stereo output pair .
38 Some line mixers have a number of effect or auxiliary sends for each channel. These sends will have their own individual level control and will receive the signal either pre fader or post fader , i.e. either independent or dependent on that channel’ s fader level.
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