Specific Application Configuration - Gadget Labs WavePRO User Manual

SPECIFIC APPLICATION CONFIGURATION

Really important note! Configuring your application
Music & audio software places special demands on the capabilities of your PC.
Although Windows provides a standard sound card programming interface to
applications, there are differences and nuances in both applications and
sound cards. It's pretty much guaranteed that some tweaking of your
application software's settings will be required.
We accumulated the following information as we tested the WavePRO card
with various software. The settings represent starting points for your setup
and you may need to fine-tune them for your particular PC configuration.
This is important stuff; please take the time to review it. To be bluntly
honest, the likelihood of you having problems with your PC digital audio
recording setup increases substantially if you ignore these details.
Setting up Cool Edit Pro for WavePRO
Cool Edit Pro is a multitrack version of the popular Cool Edit program
from Syntrillium. It's a really good tool for recording and processing
digital audio. Here are the steps to configure this application.
Note: you may need to tweak these settings depending on the
performance characteristics of your PC. Any settings not mentioned
may be left in their default state.
select the menu item, 'Options | Settings'. A tabbed dialog box
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will appear.
click on the 'System' tab
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in the section, 'Play/Record Buffer', set 'Total Buffer Size' to:
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4 seconds using 8 buffers.
in the 'Wave Cache' section, set the 'Cache Size' to 4096.
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click on tab labeled, 'Multitrack'
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set 'Playback Buffer Size (response time)' to 4 seconds
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set 'Playback Buffers' to 16.
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set 'Recording Buffer Size' to 2 seconds
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set 'Recording Buffers' to 10.
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set 'Background Mixing Priority' to 2.
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click on the 'Devices' tab.
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select the WavePRO devices.
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You'll also need to assign the WavePRO interface to individual tracks.
First, make sure you're in the Multitrack View (press the F12 key to
toggle between Waveform view and Multitrack view. (The menu item
'File | New' is used to start a new Session and select sample rates and
resolution modes).
Select the check box for 32 bit resolution to enable 24 bit
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