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Setting up your system
• Under Windows, you open the control panel by clicking
the “Setup…” button.
The control panel that appears when you click this button is provided by
the audio hardware manufacturer and not Sequel (unless you use Di-
rectX, see below). Hence it will be different for each audio card brand
and model.
The Control panel for the ASIO DirectX driver is an exception, as it is
provided by Steinberg, and is described in the dialog help, opened by
clicking the Help button in the dialog. See also the notes below.
• Under Mac OS X, you will find the control panel for your
audio hardware in the System Preferences (“Other” sec-
tion), opened from the Apple menu or from the Dock.
If you are using the built-in audio hardware of the Macintosh, you use the
“Sound” control panel in the System Preferences to set levels, balance,
etc. If you are using ASIO audio hardware, you can click the Control
Panel button to bring up its panel.
4. Click Apply and OK to close the dialog.
If you are using audio hardware with a DirectX driver
(Windows only)
Sequel comes with a driver called “ASIO DirectX Full Du-
plex Driver” available for selection on the Audio Connec-
tion pop-up menu on the Program Settings Page.
Ö To be able to take full advantage of DirectX Full Du-
plex, the audio hardware must support WDM (Windows
Driver Model) in combination with DirectX version 8.1 or
higher.
In all other cases, the audio inputs will be emulated by DirectX (see the
dialog help for the ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Setup dialog for details
about how this is reported).
Ö During the installation of Sequel, the latest DirectX
driver will be installed on your computer.
When ASIO DirectX Full Duplex Driver is selected on the
Audio Connections pop-up menu, you can click
“Setup…” to open the ASIO Direct Sound Full Duplex
Setup control panel and adjust the following settings:
• Direct Sound Output and Input Ports
In the list to the left in the window, all available Direct Sound output and
input ports are listed. In many cases, there will be only one port in each
list. To activate or deactivate a port in the list, click the checkbox in the
left column.
• You can edit the Buffer Size setting in this list if neces-
sary, by double-clicking on the value and typing in a new
value.
In most cases, the default settings will work fine. Audio buffers are used
when audio data is transferred between Sequel and the audio card.
While larger buffers ensure that playback will occur without glitches, the
latency (the time between the moment Sequel sends out the data and
when it actually reaches the output) will be higher.
• Offset
If a constant offset is audible during playback of Audio and MIDI record-
ings, you can adjust the output or input latency time using this value.
Setting up the input and output ports
Setting the inputs and outputs primarily depends on the
configuration settings of your audio card. You can check
the configuration by clicking on “Setup…” on the Program
Settings Page.
If you have a stereo in/out audio card this will most likely
be set up automatically.
Inputs
Setting the recording input for Sequel is discussed in
“Adding an audio track” on page 13.
Outputs
Audio outputs can be selected on the Program Settings
Page from the Output Selector pop-up.
Retrieving channel names (Mac only)
For some audio cards, it is possible to automatically re-
trieve the “ASIO” channel names for the ports of your au-
dio hardware:
1. Open the Program Settings Page in the Multi Zone.
2. In the Audio Settings section, select your audio card
from the “Audio connection” pop up menu.
3. Open the control panel for your audio hardware.
4. Activate the “Use CoreAudio Channel Names” option.
5. When you now open the Output selector pop-up in the
Audio Settings section or the Input pop-up in track list for
audio tracks, you will find that the port names correspond to
the names that are used by the CoreAudio driver.
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If your Windows audio hardware doesn’t have a spe-
cific ASIO driver, a DirectX driver is the next best op-
tion.