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Digital X Bus FireWire Card 

 

 

 

User Guide 

 
 
 
 

Version 1.00 

August 4

th

, 2005

 

Summary of Contents for Digital X Bus FireWire Card

Page 1: ...Digital X Bus FireWire Card User Guide Version 1 00 August 4th 2005...

Page 2: ...ntrol Panel 5 III Control Panel Menus 7 IV Windows XP Connection Status 8 V Streaming Audio 8 VI Terminating Resetting Windows XP Connection 9 Using FireWire in the Digital X Bus 9 I Setting the Host...

Page 3: ...up to twenty four inputs and outputs it should be installed into the first Slot of either Buckets A B or C as designated by the labels above the I O Card Cage You can insert it into any mixer Slot if...

Page 4: ...ometimes the FireWire Card will register in the Audio MIDI Setup Window as Unknown Device Simply re select Unknown Device in the Default Input menu and it will change to DXBFire 0000 II Streaming Audi...

Page 5: ...file Click Next at all prompts Click Continue Anyway when prompted by the Windows Logo Testing screen When prompted connect the Digital X Bus FireWire Card to your computer using a standard 6 pin Fire...

Page 6: ...ossible without causing audio artifacts or disk buffer underruns in your WDM supported application Device Name Displays the firmware version of the FireWire Card Serial Number Displays the serial numb...

Page 7: ...ol Panel you will notice a Tools menu and a Help Menu as shown below The following selections are available under the Tools menu Update Firmware on Card Updates the FireWire Card firmware through the...

Page 8: ...nected to your PC and an active connection is displayed in the Digital X Bus Control Panel or System Tray the Digital X Bus FireWire inputs and outputs become immediately available as patch points for...

Page 9: ...orming you that it is safe to remove the FireWire cable Click on the X to close the balloon Remove the FireWire Cable Make any needed adjustments to the Digital X Bus Host Mode Sample Rate Sample Cloc...

Page 10: ...output paths available to each Bucket so increasing the channel inputs on the FireWire cards must be done at the expense of disabling those channel inputs from the adjacent cards When you adjust the H...

Page 11: ...then the patch points for the additional outputs are accessed from a the same menu as the first eight channels For example if the FireWire Card is inserted into Slot 1 A1 and the Host Mode is set to...

Page 12: ...tween a Mac and your Digital X Bus FireWire Card for the first time it is helpful to have the Audio MIDI Setup Device Panel Applications Utilities Audio MIDI Setup displayed on your desktop when you m...

Page 13: ...your PC to malfunction disrupting communication between FireWire Card in the Digital X Bus For situations such as this we recommend one of the following steps to correct the problem Disable Device The...

Page 14: ...reWire Cards If an IRQ stacking issue cannot be resolved by disabling devices in the Device Manager try physically moving your PCI FireWire card to a different PCI slot in your computer until it appea...

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