User's Guide
DIGI32 PRO © RME
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7. Software Installation
7.1 Windows 95
™
After fitting the card (see 6. Hardware Installation) and switching on the computer, Windows 95
™
discovers a new hardware component and starts the assistent for device installation. Insert the
RME Driver CD into your CDROM drive, and follow the instructions prompted on the screen.
Windows 95
™
will now install the
DIGI32 PRO
driver and reports that it is an audio device.
After that it is ready to use.
Due to a bug in Windows 95 OSR2 the path to the CDROM drive has to be typed in again
during the copy process.
7.2 Windows NT
™
Because Windows NT
™
4.0 has not yet been supplied with a hardware recognition (Device Ma-
nager), the drivers must be installed by hand. This is very easy to do, as thanks to Plug & Play
IRQ (interrupt) and memory area are already defined.
After fitting the card (see 6. Hardware Installation), switching on the computer and completed
boot of Windows NT
™
insert the RME driver CD into your CDROM drive and add new devices by
using >Settings/Control Panel/Multimedia/Devices/Audio Devices/Add<. Change to the CD's
directory
\nt\nt32
. Windows NT
™
will now install the drivers and registers them as audio devices.
Finally
DIGI32 PRO's
Settings dialog shows up.
To finish the installation you MUST now press the 'Apply' button once! As long as 'Apply' is not
pressed at least one time the driver installation is incomplete, there is no display of the sample
rate and of the slot number. When installing more than one card 'Apply' has to be pressed for
each card once.
After clicking 'Apply' the driver is added to the registry, and the card is ready to be used.
7.3 Power PC (MacOS
™
)
Working with various software on the Mac requires registering the card in the Sound Manager.
But the Sound Manager does not support more than 16 bit and 48 kHz. A complete support of all
the outstanding features of the
DIGI32 PRO
is currently only available when using our
ASIO driver with related software. This allows up to 24 bit and up to 96 kHz at a very low latency.
The driver file is located in the RME Driver-CD's directory
\Mac
and includes an installation pro-
gram. After fitting the card (see 6. Hardware Installation), switching on the computer and boot of
MacOS
™
first decompress the file (Stuffit format). Then start the installer and follow the instructi-
ons on the screen. At last the file 'Digi32 ASIO' which is located in the new 'RME' folder must be
copied into the 'ASIO Drivers' folder of the corresponding ASIO software.
It is not possible to use the
DIGI32 PRO
with the control panel 'Monitors and Sound'! This
is a restriction of the operating system. That's why Apple still ships the old control panel 'So-
und', available in the Apple Extras Folder. Drag it to the system folder before installing our card
and drivers to gain complete access to the
DIGI32 PRO
as expected.
More informations can be found on our Mac web page (or on the Driver-CD).
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