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Features 

Front panel balanced XLR mic input with switchable phantom power and dedicated gain control

Front panel unbalanced guitar/instrument 1/4” input with dedicated gain control

Switchable rear panel unbalanced 1/4” line inputs

Rear panel balanced/unbalanced 1/4” TRS outputs with level control

Rear panel coaxial S/PDIF I/O.

Front panel headphone output with level control

Versatile mixer/router control panel provides near zero-latency hardware direct monitoring.

Extremely low-latency hardware/drivers.

Kensington lock port for security

Two 6-pin FireWire ports.

Cool blue indicator LED.

Bus-powered (six-pin FireWire connection required) or powered via included PSU.

Frequency response from 20-40kHz 

Dynamic range of 102dB

Supports sampling rates of 44.1k, 48k, 88.2k, and 96kHz 

Mounting the device to a rack drawer

Holes are located on the left and right of the bottom of the FireWire Solo, to allow you to mount this device to a rack tray. The FireWire Solo is 
mountable on either the left or right side of the drawer. If you choose to mount the device to a rack tray, you must first remove the rubber pads 
from the base of the unit.

Minimum System Requirements

Windows

Pentium III – 500 MHz or higher

128 MB RAM

Windows XP (SP2) with DirectX 9.0b or higher

Onboard FireWire connection or installed FireWire PCI card

The FireWire Solo is not supported under Windows 98, Windows ME or Windows 2000.

Mac OS

Macintosh G3/G4* 500 MHz or higher

OS X 10.2.8 or later, 256 MB RAM or

OX X 10.3.5 or later, 512 MB RAM

Onboard FireWire connection or installed FireWire PCI card

*G3/G4 accelerator cards not supported
OS X 10.3.5 or later required for Dolby Digital and DTS pass-through with Apple DVD player.

Summary of Contents for FireWire Solo

Page 1: ...User s Guide Guide de l utilisateur Benutzerhandbuch Manual del usuario Manuale dell utente...

Page 2: ...r computer is not equipped with a native FireWire port you may purchase a FireWire PCI card at any computer electronics retailer The FireWire Solo can deliver high quality analog and digital I O in fu...

Page 3: ...rates of 44 1k 48k 88 2k and 96kHz Mounting the device to a rack drawer Holes are located on the left and right of the bottom of the FireWire Solo to allow you to mount this device to a rack tray The...

Page 4: ...signal level exceeds 1 dBFS If the Clip Indicator glows steadily reduce the Guitar Input gain level 8 8 Guitar Input Gain This knob controls the amount of gain at the Guitar Input 6 over a range of 0...

Page 5: ...10 19 Line Inputs Unbalanced analog line inputs on 1 4 phone connectors These connectors are only active when the front panel Front Rear Input Selector 5 is set to Rear IN position Input from these co...

Page 6: ...ing the installation you will be prompted with a message warning that the driver software has not passed Windows Logo testing Select Continue Anyway and proceed with the installation The installer wil...

Page 7: ...on your computer Once Windows has fully loaded the New Hardware Wizard will open Choose the default selection Install the software automatically Click Next Windows will locate and install the FireWir...

Page 8: ...on in your system tray lower right corner of your desktop Click on the icon to open the FireWire Solo control panel Mac OSX Version 10 2 8 Jaguar Insert the M Audio driver CD into your CD ROM drive an...

Page 9: ...ment Click Continue and then click Agree if you agree with the License Agreement Select a destination disk for the installation then click Continue On the Easy Install box click Install On the followi...

Page 10: ...ady to use Mac OS X version 10 3 x Panther Insert the M Audio driver CD into your CD ROM drive and open the CD to view its contents Double click the dmg le which launches the M Audio Installer An M Au...

Page 11: ...OK and then click Install On the following box click Continue Installation You will then see the Connect Device Warning box instructing you to NOT connect your FireWire Solo until the driver installa...

Page 12: ...enerally located at the bottom of your Windows desktop Double click this icon to open the control panel On the Mac The FireWire Solo control panel can be found in the system preferences NOTE The FireW...

Page 13: ...audio output deselecting the solo button will resume audio output on all channels Multiple solo selections are possible Panning Controls The Hardware Input channel pairs also offer virtual Pan pot con...

Page 14: ...is initially too low but be careful that the recording level is not reaching digital clipping going into the red while recording Using the Line Inputs Connect your line level output device to the Fire...

Page 15: ...e type monitoring you can enable it in your DAW s ASIO or audio control panel Please refer to your audio software s documentation for additional information WDM input monitoring If you are running a W...

Page 16: ...e Generally FireWire devices do not suffer from the IRQ con icts sometimes encountered with PCI cards If you are having trouble getting audio into or out of your FireWire Solo please check the followi...

Page 17: ...el Hempstead Herts HP2 7BJ England Sales Information phone 44 0 1442 416590 Sales Information fax 44 0 1442 246832 Sales Information email info maudio co uk Technical Support PC 44 0 1309 671301 Techn...

Page 18: ...dB 48kHz a weighted Dynamic Range min gain 101 dB 48kHz a weighted THD N min gain 0 0079 82 dB 1kHz 1dBFS 48kHz Frequency response min gain 0 25dB 20Hz to 20kHz 48kHz 0 3 dB 20Hz to 40kHz 96kHz Impeda...

Page 19: ...o com warranty for terms and limitations applying to your speci c product Warranty Registration Thank you for registering your new M Audio product Doing so immediately both entitles you to full warran...

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