Owner`s manual

ASIO Direct Monitoring – Mac OS 8/9, all products
Here are a few different scenarios for monitoring your inputs:
I want to just listen to my inputs without using any audio software
Run the Console and control your monitors from there.
I want to use Direct Monitoring
Use Direct Monitoring in your software, but don’t use the Console for
monitoring. Only use the Console for clock synchronization.
I want to use software monitoring
Run the Console and mute all the monitors. This will disable hardware
monitoring. Using hardware and software monitoring simultaneously won’t
hurt anything, but you’ll get a noticeable delay effect in your outputs (kind
of like a slapback echo) since the hardware and software monitors have
different latencies.
The best method, therefore, is to mute the monitors in the console and to
control your software monitoring from within your audio application.
No matter which type of monitoring you use, if you choose to use either the
software or hardware monitoring within your ASIO program, this will
determine how you should use the Console. If you use your ASIO program
for monitoring, then you should only use the Console for setting the Input
Clock. If you use both your ASIO program and the Console for monitoring,
the Echo24 ASIO driver will get confused (this is bad).
Finally, please note that when using DirectMonitoring with Mia or
MiaMIDI, any signal that you select to monitor will be automatically sent to
both the analog and digital outputs.
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ASIO Direct Monitoring – Mac OS 8/9, all products