The Software Control Panel; Global Menus - M-Audio Firewire Audiophile User Manual

9 The Software Control Panel

The FireWire Audiophile's driver software installation includes a mixer/control panel—a
simple yet powerful interface with your computer and Digital Audio Workstation software.
The control panel gives you a multi-channel software mixer with six virtual outputs (in
three stereo pairs) from your audio software. Each output pair may be routed to any of
the FireWire Audiophile's four analog or stereo digital outputs. In addition, two software
auxiliary sends are available per stereo pair.
The FireWire Audiophile control panel is installed in your system after you have
completed the driver installation procedure. To open the control panel:
In Windows – A tiny "M," which is the M-Audio logo, will by placed in the system tray,
generally located at the bottom of your Windows desktop. Double click this icon to open
the control panel.
On the Mac – The FireWire Audiophile control panel can be found under the Apple menu.
NOTE: The FireWire Audiophile control panel can also be opened from an ASIO
compliant music program's audio setup page.
While the FireWire Audiophile control panel gives you a great deal of control, you may
find that the default settings work just fine for your needs. Depending on how you record,
you may never have to make an adjustment to these settings. Just to be safe, though,
we'll go through the control panel in great detail and explain all of the user controls.

Global Menus

The following control panel features are available on all pages of the control panel:
Mixer Settings – The reset button returns the control panel settings to their default values.
These default values can be found in this manual's section on product specifications.
The load, save and delete buttons will open a Windows or Mac file dialog box. To save
a set of control panel settings, click the save button. Then, from the "Save" dialog box,
name the setting and click OK. After you've saved a set of control panel settings, clicking
the load button will allow you to select and load your saved settings. To delete saved
settings, click the delete button and select the setting that you wish to delete.
Level Controller Assignment – This section allows you to choose which group of
mixer or output faders the front-panel Level Controller rotary encoder is addressing.
The Level Controller in the FireWire Audiophile Control Panel is a software
representation of the hardware Level Controller on the front panel, and will follow the
controller assignment made here. The encoder can offer tactile control for the following:
SW Return – The levels of the three virtual stereo pairs returning from your
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computer's audio workstation software