Owner`s manual

for your DAT (if you don’t know which one to use and are having

difficulties, simply try the one that is not currently checked). Mia never

transmits the SCMS bit, regardless of which format is selected.

Digital I/O - Dither Input

In the top right is a checkbox labeled

Dither Input

. This checkbox allows

you to enable or disable dithering on the digital inputs. It is off by default.

Most of the time you will want to leave this setting disabled. The only time

you will want to use dithering is when you are receiving a 24 bit signal over

the digital inputs, but you want to record it as a 16 bit wave file. In this

case, dithering will improve the audio quality.

General - Sync Wave Devices

This is mainly for developers who are using tools like Visual Basic or

Delphi and want the inputs and outputs to be totally independent. Unless

you have a good reason to turn it off, you should leave this switch on.

If you have a program that is telling you that our hardware isn't full duplex,

chances are you can fix this by either disabling this switch or enabling

Multi-client audio

(see below).

Sample Rate Lock

These controls allow you to enable or disable the

Sample Rate Lock

feature, as well as set the sample rate you want to lock to. While the sample

rate is locked, all sample rate change requests from applications will be

ignored and the card will remain at that sample rate no matter what.

This feature is most useful in

Multi-client audio

mode (see below).

Suppose you have locked the sample rate to 44100. If you are recording a

project at 44100 and another sound tries to play at, say, 22050, the sample

rate won't change. Sample rate locking only applies while Mia is set to

Internal clock. This setting defaults to

unlocked