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Page 1: User Guide
VRM Box User Guide FA0450-1... -
Page 2: Important Safety Instructions
For USA - to the user: 1. Do not modify this unit! This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual, meets FCC requirements. Modifications not expressly approved by Focusrite may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to use this product. 2. Important: This product satisfies FCC regulations when high quality shielded cables are used to connect with other equipment. Failure to use high quality shielded cables or to follow the installation instructions within this manual may cause magnetic interference with appliances such as radios and televisions and void your FCC authorization to use this product in the USA. 3. Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception, which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures: RoHS Notice Focusrite Audio Engineering Limited has • Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna conformed, and this product conforms where • Increase the separation between the equipment and receiver applicable, to the European Union’s Directive • Connect the equipment into an outlet on a circuit different from that to which the receiver is 2002/95/EC on Restrictions of Hazardous connected Substances (RoHS) as well as the following •... -
Page 3: Table Of Contents
ENGLISH Contents Important Safety Instructions ............2 Environmental Declaration ..............2 Contents ....................3 Introduction ..................3 What’s in the box .................. 3 VRM Box hardware overview .............. 3 Operating system compatibility ............4 Installing the software ................. 4 VRM Box hardware setup ..............4 VRM Box as the main audio interface .......... -
Page 4: Operating System Compatibility
ENGLISH Operating system compatibility Windows Macintosh Windows XP (SP3), Vista, 7 OSX 10.5 Leopard (Intel only, PPC not supported), OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard. For more information on compatibility visit www.focusrite.com/vrm_box Installing the software The VRM Box is a class compliant device, meaning that there is no need to install drivers for the device to work as an audio output. However, you must run the installer to be able to use the VRM software. Insert the CD into the computer and click on the installer icon. Follow the instructions on screen to install the VRM Control Panel software and drivers. Note for Windows users: If this message or similar appears during the installation process, press ‘Continue Anyway’ to successfully install the drivers. VRM Box hardware setup The VRM Box can be used as the main audio interface, or in conjunction with your existing audio interface, providing this interface has a RCA S/PDIF output. VRM Box as the main audio interface Using the USB cable provided, connect the VRM Box to the USB port of your computer Set up the VRM Box as your audio playback device USB / FireWire S/PDIF... -
Page 5: Vrm Box In Conjunction With Another Audio Interface
ENGLISH VRM Box in conjunction with another audio interface Using the USB cable provided, connect the VRM Box to the USB port of your computer Connect the S/PDIF output on your audio interface into the VRM Box S/PDIF input USB / FireWire In your audio interface’s control panel, ensure that audio is sent to the S/PDIF output of your audio interface With the volume control turned down, connect your headphones to VRM Box S/PDIF Open the VRM software, check the icon in the bottom right corner of the VRM software that the VRM Box has locked to the S/PDIF signal S/PDIF is unlocked S/PDIF is locked (VRM Box is synchronised to the incoming S/PDIF signal) Start playing audio from your DAW software or any media player Turn up the volume control on the VRM Box until you have the required level in your headphones VRM Box control panel software 1. -
Page 6: What Is Virtual Reference Monitoring
ENGLISH What is Virtual Reference Monitoring? Developed by Focusrite, VRM (Virtual Reference Monitoring) is a loudspeaker & room simulator designed for headphone listening. The problem Accurate mixing has until now required expensive monitors and a carefully designed and treated control room. Currently, both professional music producers facing budgetary limitations, plus project music makers without access to such facilities, frequently encounter mixing and “auditioning” difficulties. The solution VRM allows you to choose from ten pairs of industry standard nearfield and main monitors in an acoustically treated space. Engineers routinely assess their mixes by burning CDs and taking them into untreated rooms to reference on consumer stereos. VRM eliminates this process by simulating two extra rooms; a large living room and a smaller bedroom. You can choose between a range of speakers including quality hi-fi, computer, cheap stereo and television speakers. As with the control room simulation, you can observe the effects of typical room modes on your mixes. The method VRM uses standard headphones to reproduce the direct sound, together with a digital signal processing system that is used to simulate specific monitoring scenarios. The room models of VRM are mathematical simulations of real rooms, which provide greater flexibility in the possible combinations of loudspeakers and listening positions. The loudspeaker simulations are created using convolutions of impulse responses measured using the original loudspeakers. The accuracy of these simulations in different environments is taken care of by the impulse responses themselves and the way they are calculated and manipulated. VRM technical data Room Model Available Speaker Emulations Professional Studio... - Page 7 ENGLISH Listening environment data Listening Environment Dimensions Volume Reverb Time Professional Studio 6.10 x 6.48 x 3.53 m 139.40 m³ 0.38 s Living room 5.48 x 4.66 x 2.79 m 71.27 m³ 0.36 s Bedroom Studio 3.28 x 3.69 x 2.47 m 29.90 m³ 0.47 s Loudspeaker emulation data Description...
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Page 8: Performance Specifications
• Stereo Headphone Output on ¼” TRS • Headphone Output Level control (analogue) All other product names, trade marks, or trade names are the marks of their • 4-pin USB2.0 compatible socket respective owners, which are in no way associated, connected nor affiliated with Focusrite or its VRM Box product. These other product names, trade Indicators marks, and trade names are used solely to identify and describe the third party loudspeaker systems, the sonic behaviours of which were studied for • 1 Green LED Indicator: the VRM technology incorporated within the VRM Box, and to accurately Flashing: Unit not installed correctly on host describe an element of functionality within the VRM Box. Off: VRM effects turned off...
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