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FE8 Support
Version 1.10 drivers support the FE8 channel strip expander unit. Below is a screen shot
of the FE8 tab in the Windows control panel. The Mac version is the same.
The order in which multiple FE8s are reported to a DAW can be changed in this tab by
clicking an FE8 Name Assignment and using the Move Up or Move Down buttons at the
bottom. When clicking the Identify button, the highlighted FE8 will flash its FireWire
(1394) LED.
It makes later FE8 assignment easier (if more than one FE8 is connected) if they are
renamed at this point. Many users, for example, will want to rename the FE8s to reflect
their physical position on the work surface (for example: “FE8 Left, FE8 Right”). After
renaming, the FE8s must have their power cycled, then the new names will appear in the
DAW for easy assignment. (In Windows, names entered in this dialog also become the
names of the MIDI device names available to your audio applications.)
