Steinberg VSL 2020 Operation Manual

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Page 2: Introduction
V-STACK software hosts up to 16 VST instruments, and provides 8 send effects, 5 insert effect slots and 4 master bus effects for your VSTi sounds. Let the VSL 2020 card and V-STACK increase the available music making power in your studio.
Page 3: Package Contents
2. Package contents VSL 2020 PCI card V-ST ACK CD Adapter cable (D-type with digital and analog inputs and outputs) 3. System requirements Minimum system requirements: Processor: Pentium 233 MHz RAM: 128 MB of free RAM Operating system: Windows 2000, Windows XP Sound card: supports ASIO 2 spec for high-end multi-channel audio cards, supports Windows MME &...
Page 4: Characteristics
Low-jitter ADAT (32, 44.1, 48, 88.2, 96 kHz) Sample frequencies: 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2, 96 kHz Coaxial S/PDIF I/O Word clock I/O 5.2 Analog RCA connector input and output (24 bits/96 kHz) 5.3 MIDI MIDI input and output via adapter cable VSL 2020 — 4...
Page 5: Hardware Installation
Before removing the VSL 2020 from the protective bag, discharge any static in your body by touching a metal surface. Open your computer‘s housing and insert the VSL 2020 into a free PCI slot. Make sure that the card is locked ﬁ rmly in the slot and fasten the screw.
Page 6: Software Installation
“Add new hardware wizard“. The driver is located in the VSL 2020 folder on the V-ST ACK CD. If the wizard informs you that the driver is not certiﬁ ed, this is not a problem. Click “Install anyway“ and install the driver. Afterwards, you should restart Windows to make sure the driver is working correctly.
Page 7: Connections Of The Vsl2020
8.1 ADAT The VSL 2020 provides different types of inputs and outputs, directly on the card and via an adapter cable. Directly on the card you can see two ADAT inputs (ADAT In 1 and 2 on the left) and two ADAT outputs (ADAT Out 1 and 2 on the right).
Page 8: S/Pdif
You can adjust the word clock settings via the control panel. 8.5 MIDI The VSL 2020 also supports MIDI on the adapter cable. It is a 16 channel in/out interface with the standard MIDI connector. Word clock I/O...
Page 9: Control Panel
The control panel is used to conﬁ gure your audio card. Once you have succsessfully installed all hardware and software and rebooted the system you will see a Steinberg logo on the right-hand side in your taskbar. Click this icon to open the control panel. The control panel provides several options that help you adapt the card to the requirements of your working environment (digital mixers, AD-DA converters, V-ST ACK systems, etc.).
Page 10: Control Panel Window
1:1, which means that ADAT-1 Out is routed to ADAT-1 Out, etc. Or you can route your signal to a speciﬁ c ADAT output ( ADAT 1.1 or ADAT 1.2, etc.). You can also route your signal to the analog out. You can also choose S/PDIF as the monitor-out. VSL 2020 — 10...
Page 11: Confi Gure The Vsl 2020
9.2 Conﬁ guring the VSL 2020 The control panel provides two menus called File and Conﬁ g. The File menu is used to exit the control panel. The Conﬁ g menu provides a number of options for the conﬁ guration of your card.
Page 12: Hardware Confi Guration
If you choose the Lock option, you lock the settings for the internal clock, i.e. even if applications try to access the card with a different sample rate it will not follow. Note that this can sometimes cause errors with programs that do not support your selected sample rate! VSL 2020 — 12...
Page 13: Analog Mixer
9.2.6 Analog Mixer The Analog Mixer option opens a dialog where you can set the output level and the input level of the analog connectors. VSL 2020 — 13...
Page 14: Working With Asio
Nuendo), open the Devices menu and choose the Device Setup option. In the Devices list, select VST Multitrack. On the Setup tab, select the ASIO 2.0-VSL 2020 driver from the ASIO Driver pop-up. Click the Control Panel button to open the card control panel if you want to make your settings from within your host application.
Page 15: Working With V-St Ack
11. Working with V-ST ACK You can use the VSL 2020 card with any VST host application that supports ASIO 2.0, e.g. Cubase or Nuendo. The V-ST ACK software supplied with your card is also a ASIO 2.0 compatible VST host application, and can be used in combination with another computer running Cubase or Nuendo.
Page 16 - Make sure to use digital cables when connecting via S/PDIF, normal analog RCA (audio) cables will not work! - Always use 32 bit ASIO drivers! 16 bit drivers will most likely not work. Some ASIO drivers have different bitwidth when using certain buffer sizes. VSL 2020 — 16...
Page 17: Compliance And Copyright Statements
Copyrights and Trademarks Cubase, Nuendo and VST are registered trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. ASIO is a trademark of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. VSL 2020, V-STACK and ASIO are trademarks of Steinberg Media Technologies AG. Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows ME and DirectX are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
Page 18: Table Of Contents
Windows ME........................6 Windows 2000 and Windows XP...................6 Connections of the VSL2020..................7 ADAT..........................7 S/PDIF..........................8 Analog..........................8 Word clock........................8 MIDI..........................8 Control panel........................9 Control panel window....................10 Conﬁ gure the VSL 2020.................... 11 9.2.1 Mouse Wheel......................11 9.2.2 Latency.........................11 9.2.3 Factory Default......................11 9.2.4 Always on Top......................11 9.2.5 Hardware Conﬁ...