Owner`s manual

WDM console – all products

Console Settings

Clicking the Settings button above the playback strips shows a dialog box for

altering console settings. The Settings dialog gives you four different tabs to

choose from: “Driver,” “Digital I/O,” “GSIF,” and “About.”

Driver

Here you can do two things: lock the sample rate and tell the driver whether or not

to synchronize wave devices.

This is the settings window for Mona. This window is the same for all Echo24 products.

Locking the sample rate

Locking the sample rate can be very important, since Windows will frequently try

to set the hardware to the highest rate it supports. Then, Windows sample rate

converts between that rate and the rate at which you are playing or recording. For

instance, you may be trying to play at 44.1 kHz, but Windows sets the hardware to

96 kHz and converts between the two. This is undesirable because you may be

trying to do a digital transfer at a specific rate. In addition, sample rate conversion

will reduce your audio quality and consume a great deal of CPU power. Locking

the sample rate forces Windows to only use the hardware at the locked rate. In

general, we recommend you set the sample rate first in your audio application.

Then, lock that same rate within the console. Locking the sample rate is not really

necessary for applications that do not use the legacy wave/MME interface (such as

SONAR, Cubase, etc.).