User manual

16 F-CONTROL AUDIO FCA202 User Manual
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The FCA202 software provides a number of driver models
for Windows platforms and for professional recording.
With standard Windows-applications, you don’t need to
worry about which driver is currently being used by the
operating system. You only need to select the correct
playback device via the Windows “Control Panel”. However,
as soon as you start to produce or record computer-based
music and work with special audio software such as Cubase,
Live, Logic, Tracktion, or others, you should make sure that
you selected an ASIO driver. This driver model supports
the full range of functions offered by your hardware and
gives you the best performance. You will normally find
the selection of a driver model for the FCA202 hardware
in an audio setup menu or in the standard default settings
of the software you are using. If necessary, check the
documentation for your software.
If you work with the program Sonar from Cakewalk, you can
also use the WDM KS driver, since this achieves comparable
latencies to the ASIO driver. In case of doubt, check whether
the ASIO or the WDM KS driver gives better results with your
Sonar system.
Things are much simpler with the Mac platform. With OS X,
there is only one driver model, the CoreAudio driver.
Thus there´s no need to worry about which driver to select.
In PC systems, the latency very much depends on ◊
the driver used. For recording, always select an ASIO
driver and use the CONTROL PANEL to set up a lower
latency (less than 16 ms). The smaller the value,
the better. If audio dropouts occur, try increasing the
latency in stages.