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M-Audio Lagoon Manual

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  • Page 1 LAGOON ™ MANUAL...

  • Page 2: Table Of Contents

    Using LAGOON with Application Software ..... . .11 The LAGOON Tools Applet ........12 Info Page .
  • Page 3 FCC Class B / European CE Compliance WARNING: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a CLASS B digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.

  • Page 4: Introduction

    Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of a LAGOON PCI Digital Audio Card! With this card, high-quality digital audio processing becomes possible with your PC. The card offers optical digital I/O and an ADAT Sync connector (standard Alesis 9-pin DB connector).

  • Page 5: Minimum System Requirements

    ADAT tape recorder. Switching the K9 jumper on the Lagoon board will alter the function of this connector to a 1 in/1 out MIDI interface (see #4 in this list). Shown here MIDI cable is attached.

  • Page 6: Installation

    4. ADAT Sync/MIDI Jumper: (see section, “Hardware Installation”). Installation Here is a list of the steps required to get your LAGOON PCI Digital Audio Card up and running. Please read the associated section of the manual and follow the instructions carefully.

  • Page 7: Hardware Installation

    If the card seems difficult to seat, a slight rocking motion may help. If the card is impossible to seat, you may be trying to install the LAGOON in a non-PCI slot. If this is the case, go back to Step 3.

  • Page 8: Windows Driver And Software Installation

    3. Windows will give you a selection of locations to search. Make sure that ‘Floppy disk drives’ is checked, or click on the check box to do so. Insert the Lagoon 95/98 Driver and Tools Applet Disk #1 into your floppy drive. Click ‘Next>’.

  • Page 9: Verifying Windows Driver Installation

    The Lagoon is properly installed with no conflicts, as is the WINMAN 4x4/S. If you do not see your M Audio Lagoon in your Device Manager in this fashion, please jump ahead to the “Troubleshooting” section of this manual.

  • Page 10: Verifying Lagoon Tools Applet Software Installation

    Lagoon as they are developed. Click ‘OK’. 4. Lagoon Setup will allow you to select a folder into which to install the Tools Applet software. Again, we suggest just sticking with the “Lagoon” folder, but advanced users can make another selection here.
  • Page 11 SuperDAC). A D/A converter will convert the digital signal to analog, which would allow input to the same types of analog receiving devices. b) If you are sending an 8-channel signal to the LAGOON PCI Toslink Optical Output, your receiving device may be the optical input of an ADAT, 8- channel optical input of a digital mixer, or the optical input of an 8-channel D/A converter.

  • Page 12: Using Lagoon With Application Software

    “left” and “right” mono devices. Therefore you may see them as “Left Lagoon in 1/2, Right Lagoon in 1/2, Left Lagoon in 3/4, Right Lagoon in 3/4,” etc., from within your recording software.

  • Page 13: The Lagoon Tools Applet

    This allows the application to pan audio left and right under software control. To send a signal to a Lagoon ASIO output 1 (for example) as a mono output send, one would choose “Analog 1/2 Lagoon”...

  • Page 14: Info Page

    You will further notice two small buttons in the upper right corner of the LAGOON Tools window. The right one is as usual for closing the LAGOON Tools. The left one has a special function. If you click on it, the LAGOON Tools window will always stay on top of your desktop.

  • Page 15: Mode

    Toshiba and Sharp. If you have external equipment with optical jacks from Toshiba (like the LAGOON card), you will not need the T2S. If you have equipment that uses optical jacks from Sharp (like ADAT recorders), you should activate T2S (even if in most cases this is not necessary).

  • Page 16: Sample Rate

    If Optical In or ADAT Sync In is selected as Clock source, then there is no need for choosing a Sample rate. Only if LAGOON is selected you may choose the Sample rate. Configuring input or output as ADAT you may select among 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz only (as only these frequencies fulfill the ADAT demands).

  • Page 17: Consumer Mode

    32, 44.1, or 48 kHz. For sample rates of 96, 88.2, and 64 kHz you must choose 48 kHz. By clicking on Auto mode, the LAGOON Tools will automatically choose the correct settings for you. Wrong settings may lead to data formats that can not be accepted by other devices (especially some DAT recorders).

  • Page 18: Mme Page

    No output device. If activation is desired, the eight input and output channels of the LAGOON card can be interpreted as a single 8 channel device, 4 stereo devices or 8 mono devices. Remember that changing the number of devices will only take effect after rebooting Windows.

  • Page 19: Asio Page

    ASIO Page In the ASIO page you can determine the Buffer size of the ASIO LAGOON driver. A smaller Buffer size results in a smaller latency time (e.g. the time needed to hear a sound after you press the play button in your application software), but may lead to dropouts if your system is too slow to handle such short latency times.

  • Page 20: Midi Page

    If any of the error lights on this page is turned on, the light on top of the Status page and the LAGOON icon in the Windows taskbar will start blinking. This way you can see if something is wrong with your LAGOON...

  • Page 21: Input Errors

    DSP load and a percentage value for PCI-repeated transfers are displayed. All of these values are permanently measured by the DSP on the LAGOON card. Hint: You should only start recording or playback when all error lights are turned off.
  • Page 22 CRC error (S/PDIF The incoming signal is erroneous (The CRC value mode only) calculated in the LAGOON card does not match the CRC value received. This may only happen using the S/PDIF professional mode). Low confidence 1.

  • Page 23: Output Error

    Clock source in this case (General page). Output Error The output error is related to the optical output of the LAGOON card. Only one output error may appear. It is called Out of range. The out of range error may only show up when you use ADAT Sync In or Optical In to determine the sample rate.

  • Page 24: Midi Errors

    MIDI errors are related to the MIDI input of the LAGOON card. Receiving MIDI data is possible in two ways: MIDI data coming in from the LAGOON MIDI cable connected to your external MIDI equipment or MIDI data coming in from the ADAT Sync cable connected to your ADAT recorder.

  • Page 25: Sample Rates And Performance

    Optical In, Output sample rate should be the same as the one you are feeding in into the optical input of your LAGOON card. If you chose ADAT Sync In, the sample rate at the output will match the word clock frequency from the ADAT Sync In interface.

  • Page 26: Troubleshooting

    1. Check if you connected the cable correctly: You not work should see a red light coming out of the optical cable that comes from the output of your LAGOON card. 2. Check if you chose the correct output format (S/PDIF or ADAT) in the LAGOON Tools General page.

  • Page 27: Lifetime Limited Warranty

    Lifetime Limited Warranty MIDIMAN warrants that this product is free of defects in materials and workmanship under normal use so long as the product is owned by the original purchaser and that purchaser has registered his/her ownership of the product by sending in the completed warranty card. In the event that MIDIMAN receives written notice of defects in materials or workmanship from such an original purchaser, MIDIMAN will either replace the product, repair the product, or refund the purchase price at its option.
  • Page 28 If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about this product or any M Audio or MIDIMAN product, we invite you to contact us directly at: MIDIMAN U.S. 45 East Saint Joseph Street Arcadia, CA 91006-2861 U.S.A. Sales Information: 626-445-2842 Sales Information (email): info@midiman.net Tech Support:...

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