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Edirol M-16DX Workshop Manual

Edirol M-16DX Workshop Manual

16-channel digital mixer the m-16dx with a daw
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M-16DX
16-Channel Digital Mixer
Using the M-16DX with a DAW
© 2007 Roland Corporation U.S.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S.
Windows XP™, Windows XP 64-bit Edition™ , Windows Vista™, and Windows Vista 64-bit Edition™ are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Corporation is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner.
Mac OS X™ is a trademark of Apple Inc. Apple Inc. is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner.
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  • Page 1 Workshop M-16DX 16-Channel Digital Mixer Using the M-16DX with a DAW © 2007 Roland Corporation U.S. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of Roland Corporation U.S. Windows XP™, Windows XP 64-bit Edition™ , Windows Vista™, and Windows Vista 64-bit Edition™ are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. Microsoft Corporation is not associated or affiliated with Roland in any manner.

  • Page 2: About This Booklet

    Room Acoustic Control make it an excellent live mixer as well. A tip offers suggestions for using the feature being discussed. Each M-16DX Workshop Series booklet focuses on one M-16DX topic, and is intended as a companion to the M-16DX Owner’s Manual.
  • Page 3 While modern electronic devices do things astoundingly fast, things still instrument, or other audio device to an M-16DX input jack, its audio is take a little time to do. It only makes sense that it takes some time for audio automatically routed to the corresponding M-16DX input channel.
  • Page 4 When you listen to the M-16DX stereo main mix bus with zero-latency If you listen to the DAW in the M-16DX’s main mix while you’re monitoring, what you hear is recording that same mix into the DAW, the DAW’s output gets sent back •...

  • Page 5: Downloading Drivers

    If an “Install Program as Other User” dialog appears, quit the installer, Inside your driver folder, you’ll find the driver installer. and then log in as the system administrator before installing the M-16DX driver. Click Next to display the installation start window:...
  • Page 6 Anyway. If you can’t continue, see “About Driver Signing Options” later in this booklet. With the M-16DX’s power turned off, plug one end of the included USB cable into its USB jack, and the other end into the USB jack on If the “System Settings Change”...
  • Page 7 About Driver Signing Options Mac OS X Driver Installation Start up your computer with all USB cables disconnected except for The Driver Signing window lets you select whether Windows should block your keyboard and mouse. the installation of an unknown driver, warn you about it, or just install it. Open up the M16DXUSBDriver folder, and double-click the In the Start menu, select Control Panel.
  • Page 8 USB jack on your computer, and then turn on the M-16DX. Read “System Settings on Your Computer” in the next column. Should you ever need to remove the M-16DX driver from your system, the driver installer folder also contains an uninstaller. You can hold onto this file, or re-download the driver folder later on should you need the uninstaller at some point in the future.
  • Page 9 MusicXP.net, http://musicxp.net/tuning_tips.php. Using the M-16DX for System Sounds In addition to using the M-16DX with a DAW, you can use it for all of your computer’s operating system sounds if you like. The following sections explain how to set this up.
  • Page 10 Click OK. In the list, double-click EDIROL M-16DX. In the Sound control panel, you’ll see the M-16DX’s current sample rate after “EDIROL M-16DX.” We’ll discuss sample rates in a bit. Set Device usage to Use this device (enable), and then click OK.
  • Page 11 USB cable connecting the M-16DX and the computer. The sample rate of the M-16DX and your DAW has to be the same to ensure the successful passing of audio back and forth via USB. In the case of...
  • Page 12 PHONES/CTRL ROOM knob. If you work on speakers, your mic will pick up the M-16DX’s main mix and that’ll get recorded behind your While a channel’s LEVEL-knob setting has no effect on the volume of audio—not usually a good thing.
  • Page 13 Once the DAW has been configured properly, you’ll typically be able to select Two-Track Session Monitoring the desired M-16DX input, pair of inputs, or main mix for a track using a pop- up menu associated with the track. What You Hear Is Exactly What You Get Turn Off Monitoring Through the DAW In a two-track session, the M-16DX main mix you hear is what you’ll be...

  • Page 14: Playing Back Your Recording

    Your DAW’s documentation will tell you how to disarm a track, and how to play it back. In the M-16DX, you listen to the main mix, which includes the DAW’s output coming through Channel 13/14. (Make sure the channel’s USB button is lit.) Overdubbing If you’re doing a multitrack session, you can add more tracks to your DAW...

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