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Setting Up Your System
Setting Up Audio
Testing the Audio Hardware
To make sure that the audio card works as expected, perform the following two tests:
• Use any software included with the audio card to make sure you can record and
play back audio without problems.
• If the card is accessed via a standard operating system driver, try playing back
audio using the computer’s standard audio application.
Setting Up Audio
Connecting Audio
Exactly how to set up your system depends on many different factors, such as the kind
of project you want to create, the external equipment you want to use, or the computer
hardware available to you. Therefore, the following sections can only serve as examples.
How you connect your equipment, that is, whether you use digital or analog
connections, also depends on your individual setup.
Stereo Input and Output – the Simplest Connection
If you only use a stereo input and output from Sequel, you can connect your audio
hardware directly to the input source, and the outputs to a power amplifier and speaker.
A simple
stereo audio
setup
This is probably the simplest of all setups – once you have set up the internal input
and output busses, you can connect your audio source, for example, a microphone, to
your audio interface and start recording.
Multi-Channel Input and Output
You may have other audio equipment that you want to integrate with Sequel, using
several input and output channels. Depending on the equipment available to you,
there are two ways to go: either mixing using an external mixing desk, or mixing using
the mixer inside Sequel.
External mixing means having a hardware mixing device with a group or bus system
that can be used for feeding inputs on your audio hardware.
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Make sure that all equipment is turned off before making any connections!