Getting Connected And Installing Drivers (Macintosh); What Is A Driver; Advanced Mode And Standard Driver Mode - Edirol AudioCapture UA-700 Owner's Manual

Getting Connected and Installing
Drivers (Macintosh)
If you are using a Windows computer, please proceed to Getting Connected and Installing
Drivers (Windows) (p. 14).

What is a driver?

fig.05-1e_50
A "driver" is software that transfers data
between the UA-700 and application software
running on your computer, when your
computer and the UA-700 are connected by a
USB cable. The driver sends data from your
application to the UA-700, and from the UA-700
to your application.

Advanced mode and Standard driver mode

The UA-700 has two operating modes, Advanced mode and Standard driver mode, and a
different driver is used by each mode.
Advanced mode
fig.advance-on
The UA-700 will operate in this mode when the ADVANCE mode is
turned ON. ( Refer to ADVANCE (mode select) switch (p. 129))
The special driver included on the CD-ROM will be used, allowing
audio to be recorded/played/edited with high quality and stable
timing.
In Advanced mode, audio signals can be transferred between the UA-700 and the computer at a
resolution of 24 bits and sampling frequencies of 44.1 / 48 / 96 kHz. Select Advanced mode if you are
using an application that is able to record/playback/edit high-quality audio, such as a 24 bit audio
application or an ASIO-compatible application such as Cubase VST, Logic Audio, and Metro.
In Advanced mode, the UA-700 cannot play back audio data (audio CDs or warning sounds) from
the Macintosh sound manager.
( Installing the special driver (p. 42))
Standard driver mode
fig.advance-off
The UA-700 will operate in this mode when the ADVANCE mode is
turned OFF. ( Refer to ADVANCE (mode select) switch (p. 129))
The standard USB audio driver included with MacOS will be used. In
standard driver mode, audio signals are transferred between the
UA-700 and the computer at a resolution of 16 bits and sampling
frequencies of 44.1 / 48 kHz. Select this mode if you are using an application that uses MacOS's
own functionality, such as an application that uses the computer's CD-ROM drive to play back
CD-audio, or an application that uses the software synthesizer included with MacOS. The standard
driver included with MacOS does not support ASIO.
Note also that the use of Mac OS 8.6 is not supported.
( Installing the OS-standard driver (p. 51))
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Application
USB port
Driver USB cable
Computer
UA-700
Advance mode is
ON
Advance mode is
OFF