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SYSTEM SETTINGS 27
System settings
Before you start working, you should configure your sound card after starting the system
for the first time.
Press the "Y" key on your keyboard, or open the global system settings via "Options >
System/Audio".
Here you can recall information on the connected playback and record devices as well as
MIDI, metronome or program settings, and change them if necessary. You can also select
the target folders for projects and VST plug-ins as well as the view options and coloring of
the screen elements. Detailed information on the individual dialogs can also be found in the
menu reference as well as the online help in "Options > System/Options". Subsequently the
most important dialogs are explained.
Audio setup
Enter all fundamental settings for drivers systems, buffers, driver communications, and
monitoring here.
Driver system: For the necessary communication between Samplitude and your sound
card, a so-called driver system is used. In order to take full advantage of the program, we
recommend that you use ASIO.
MME is the standard Windows multimedia driver system with the best compatibility. It
supports 16 bit playback. If you are recording 24/32 bit audio material, then you can use
MME/WDM. This driver system is suited to multi-track recordings of up to 64 tracks that
don't overload monitoring processes. For performance critical recordings this provides
greater security compared to ASIO drivers; in any case, for many sound cards multi-track
recordings are not synchronous with one another
ASIO: Use a sound card model fitted with ASIO drivers if possible. This offers a number of
decisive advantages over the MME/WDM driver system:
• There is lower latency (input/output delay) of the driver system. Resulting response times
during real-time editing are clearly reduced. In this way you have the possibility to use
the software monitoring of the inputs and VST instruments.
• ASIO is intended for editing multi-track recordings with several sound cards which are
using the same ASIO drivers. The sound cards are synchronized by the ASIO driver.