Verifying The Card Installation; Presence Of Playback And Recording Devices - Digigram ALP442e User Manual

User Manual for ALP442e & ALP442e-MIC

7.4 Verifying the card installation

Once the driver and card have been installed as per the process described hereinabove, you can verify
that the card is installed correctly and working properly.

7.4.1 Presence of playback and recording devices

The audio devices exposed by the card driver are visible on the Windows Sound panel. To open it,
right click on the loudspeaker icon in the Windows taskbar and select "Sounds":
The audio devices exposed by the card driver are visible from the "Play" and "Record" tabs.
If the card devices are not listed in the Windows Sound control panel:
Make sure that the card is inserted correctly in the PCI slot and screwed to the computer
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chassis.
Try to uninstall the ALP-X Kit (from the Windows control panel, Applications) and re-install it.
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Playback to a device can be tested by right clicking on it and selecting "Test". The VU-meter must
then show modulation and the sound must be heard on the card output(s) according to the
routing and levels configured in the ALP-X Manager application.
If several cards of the same model are installed, their devices have the same name (ALP PLAY and
ALP REC), but the name of the card associated to each device differs from an index (no index for
the first card, and index starting from 2 for the following cards of the same model).
In the example below, the first card in the PCIe slot enumeration order is an ALP882e, the second
card is an
First card: ALP882e
ALP PLAY
Digigram
ALP PLAY
Digigram ALP882e
...
ALP PLAY
Digigram ALP882e
ALP882e & ALP882e-MIC
,
ALP442e, and the
Second card: ALP442e
1-2 ALP
ALP882e Digigram
3-4 ALP
Digigram ALP442e
...
15-16 ALP
Digigram ALP442e
.
third card
Third card: ALP882e
PLAY 1-2 ALP
ALP442e 2-Digigram
PLAY 3-4 ALP
2-Digigram ALP882e
...
PLAY 7-8 ALP
2-DigigramALP882e
is an ALP882e.
PLAY 1-2
ALP882e
PLAY 3-4
PLAY 15-16
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