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ESI M4U Instruction Manual

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WARRANTY
Ego Systems Inc. warrants the return policy to its original purchaser as follows; All the EGO
SYSTEMS INC.'s products, under normal use, will be free from faulty as long as the purchaser
owns this product.
The terms of warranty is 15 months to EGO SYSTEMS INC. distributors considering a 3-month
temporary stock period ahead of being sold to the end user.
Therefore, the actual terms of warranty is 12 months to the end user.
EGO SYSTEMS INC. will, at its sole option, repair or replace a product, which is found to be defective.
This warranty shall be invalid if, in the sole opinion of EGO SYSTEMS INC., a product failure is the
result of misuse, abuse, modification, or misapplication. Except as expressly provided above, EGO
SYSTEMS INC. products are provided, 'as is' without any kind of warranty. No claim is made for
merchantability or fitness for any purpose. In no event will EGO SYSTEMS INC. be liable for any direct,
indirect, consequential, or incidental damages arising out of use of the product.
The purchaser must contact EGO SYSTEMS INC. or its regional representative to receive prior
approval before returning a faulty unit.
To obtain warranty service, the buyer or his authorized dealer must send the email to
sale@egosys.net
or
techsuport@egosys.net
before returning the product. EGO SYSTEMS INC. will
then issue an authorization number.
All such returns must be shipped to EGO SYSTEMS INC.' headquarters in Seoul, Korea as being
packaged in the original or equivalent protective packaging material (Rack, PCI card, Power Cables,
connection cables), with freight prepaid and adequate insurance.
Any Shipments without freight prepaid will not be accepted.
If the returned product is deemed to be defective, the repaired or replacement product will be back
to you at no extra charge via the carrier chosen by EGO SYSTEMS INC.
T R A D E M A R K S
ESI, Miditerminal M4U, M4U are trademarks of EGO SYStems Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of
International Business Machines Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other
product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
R A D I O F R E Q U E N C Y I N T E R F E R E N C E A N D C O M P A T I B I L I T Y
NOTE: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for EN55022
ClassA:1998+A1:2001, EN55024:1998 of CE Test Specifications.

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  • Page 1 EGO SYSTEMS INC. T R A D E M A R K S ESI, Miditerminal M4U, M4U are trademarks of EGO SYStems Inc. IBM is a registered trademark of International Business Machines Corporation. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
  • Page 2 Miditerminal M4U This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy. If not installed and used in accordance with the instruction, it may cause interference to radio communications. This device also complies with part 15 class A of the FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions; This device may not cause harmful interference, and must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Miditerminal M4U INDEX 1. Introduction to Miditerminal M4U ______________________________________ 4 2. Description of Miditerminal M4U ______________________________________ 5 3. System Requirement _________________________________________________ 8 1) PC ______________________________________________________________ 8 2) MAC ____________________________________________________________ 8 4. Installation _________________________________________________________ 9 1) Hardware Installation _____________________________________________ 9 2) Driver Installation________________________________________________ 10 5.

  • Page 4: Introduction To Miditerminal M4U

    1. Introduction to Miditerminal M4U Thank you for choosing ESI Miditerminal M4U. The M4U is a convenient 4 in 4 out, 64 channels USB MIDI Interface for PC and MAC computer. It is fully optimized with the Windows XP and MAC OS X.

  • Page 5: Description Of Miditerminal M4U

    1: USB/MIDI THRU switch This is where you select USB mode or three kind of MIDI Thru mode. 1) USB mode: When you select this mode, M4U will be working as a basic MIDI interface. It’s the Normal mode. You can control MIDI in/ouput from your Sequencer application.
  • Page 6 Miditerminal M4U If you want go back to the Normal mode, always push to pull out the button. 2) THRU Mode 1: Input and Output ports will be matched by 1:1. For example, MIDI data from Input 2 directly goes to Output 2.
  • Page 7 Miditerminal M4U 2. Power/THRU LED display * Caution: THRU Mode only works when your computer is turned on. Even though Power/THRU LED display is lit, M4U isn’t worked when your computer is turned off. 3. MIDI OUT LED display indicator 4.

  • Page 8: System Requirement

    (Highly depends on the system requirements of your audio software) * Caution 1. We don’t recommend using many USB devices with the M4U via USB hub at the same time. It may cause Input data lose. 2. Some old mainboard that using OHCI (open host controller interface) may cause problem.

  • Page 9: Installation

    You will notice that USB ports on computer and M4U are different. Series A plug 3. Connect the other end of the USB cable (Series B plug) to the USB port of M4U. Series B plug Turn on the computer. You will see the LED displays of M4U are lit. The M4U get the power from the computer via USB cable so you don’t need to attach any external power...

  • Page 10: Driver Installation

    M4U and install default driver. You don’t need install additional driver. In XP, go to Device Manager and check ‘USB Audio Device’ under Sound, video and game controllers. Double click this device and check ‘ESI-M4U’ under USB audio device properties.
  • Page 11 Miditerminal M4U In Mac OS X 10.2 (Jaguar) or later, you can check if your M4U is recognized properly by using Audio MIDI Setup application in Applications/Utilities folder. Launch the Audio MIDI Setup application and click the MIDI Devices tab on the Audio MIDI Setup window.

  • Page 12: Setting In Applications

    Miditerminal M4U 5. Setting in Applications * This chapter only contains the basic setup for some of the software. For more detailed info, please refer to the manual of the software. 1) PC Cubase SX In Cubase, set input and output as USB Audio Device.

  • Page 13: Logic

    Miditerminal M4U Logic In Logic, you can choose a port for a MIDI track in the instrument parameter box in Arrange Window. In addition, go to ‘Synchronisation’ -> ‘MIDI’ and uncheck ‘Transmit MIDI clock’ for better performance.

  • Page 14: Giga Studio

    Miditerminal M4U Giga Studio After launching GigaStudio, set input and output as USB Audio Device. See red circle of below picture.

  • Page 15: Reason

    Miditerminal M4U Reason Go to Edit -> Preference -> MIDI And Set USB Audio Device Sonar After launching Sonar, Go to Option -> MIDI devices setting and Select USB Audio Device.

  • Page 16: Mac

    Miditerminal M4U 2) MAC As long as the M4U is recognized by Mac OS X with no problem, all the applications that support CoreMIDI should work fine with the M4U. Here are some examples of how to change application settings for using the M4U.
  • Page 17 Miditerminal M4U In this section, you can choose a port (or all ports) for MIDI input. In addition, you can choose a port for MIDI output.

  • Page 18: Nuendo

    Miditerminal M4U Nuendo In Nuendo, you can choose a port for a MIDI track in the Track List area.

  • Page 19: Logic

    Miditerminal M4U Logic In Logic, you can choose a port for a MIDI track in the instrument parameter box in Arrange Window.

  • Page 20: Reason

    Miditerminal M4U Reason In Reason, open the Preferences window and you can choose a port for MIDI input in the MIDI Page.

  • Page 21: The Known Problems

    To clear out the USB MIDI driver from the system, computer needs about 5 minutes of processing time when you disconnect the M4U. Thus, if you want to reconnect the M4U to the computer, give it 5 minutes at least. 2. System Exclusive data SEND/RECEIVE problems 1) Send: There is no problem for processing general or small sized data like a 1kB.
  • Page 22 Miditerminal M4U 2) Cakewalk or Sonar If your software is Cakewalk or Cakewalk Sonar, Go to programs’ directory folder. (C-> Program files -> Cakewalk) Find and open TSSEQ.INI file. Type SyxSendPacketsize=n like a below picture and Save it. ‘2048’ in the below picture is only the example.
  • Page 23 Miditerminal M4U...

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