Owner`s manual

TASCAM US-122 — 3
Table of Contents
1 Introduction
Overview ..................................4
Features ....................................4
What’s in the package ................4
Copyright and trademarks ..........5
Nomenclature used in this
manual .....................................5
2 Controls and indicators
Top Panel ..................................6
Rear Panel ...............................7
Front Panel Descriptions .........8
3 Installation
System Requirements ..............9
PC (Windows) ..............................9
Mac OS .........................................10
Installation ...................................10
Installation under Windows .......11
Macintosh ....................................13
Setting Up OMS (Mac OS pre-X
only) .........................................13
Tuning Your PC ........................14
Notes on USB interfacing ........15
4 Hooking up Audio and
MIDI to the US-122
Hooking up audio ....................16
Hooking up MIDI .....................16
Using Direct Monitoring .........17
5 The US-122 Control Panel
Main Page ................................18
Buffer Size Adjustment ...........18
Optimizing the USB .....................19
The Chromatic Tuner ...............19
6 Interfacing with your
Audio Software
Selecting the US-122 as your
Audio Device ........................20
Audio Control Panel ....................20
ASIO Control Panel ......................20
Setting the Sample Rate and Bit
Depth .......................................21
Input Enabling .............................21
ASIO 2 Direct Monitoring ....... 22
7 A Sample Recording
Session in Cubasis
Setting Up ................................ 23
Recording Your Tracks ............ 24
Overdubbing ................................25
8 Other Applications
Setting up Sound Manager
Support – pre-Mac OS X ..... 26
MacOS 9.0 ................................ 26
MacOS 8.6 ................................ 27
Setting audio I/O options under
OS X (10.2.3 and above) ..... 28
To use the System Preferences ...28
Setting sampling frequency and bit
length under OS X (10.2.3 and
above) ......................................28
9 Technical Support
Troubleshooting (Windows) .. 29
Tech Support Contacts ............ 29
Before Contacting Us ..................30
Troubleshooting FAQ ............. 31
10 Specifications
Audio specifications ................ 32
Audio performance ................. 33
Other characteristics ............... 34
Physical characteristics ........... 34
Dimensional drawing ............. 35