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Audio hardware (sound cards) and drivers
Beginner’s guide to Cakewalk software
Installation and drivers
When you install a sound card, you are installing both the hardware and software called a driver. The
sound card driver is what allows your operating system and your sound card to communicate. This
section is aimed at preventing problems when installing both your sound card and its driver.
Installing a sound card
Follow your sound card’s documentation for installing the sound card in your computer. If you are
installing a PCI card, or any hardware that requires you to open the cover of your computer, be
careful to discharge any static electricity you are carrying by touching the metal casing of your
computer before handling the sound card itself. Static electricity can damage a sound card’s
circuitry.
WDM and MME
In most situations, the newer WDM (Windows Driver Model) sound card drivers that most sound
card vendors are creating are a much better choice than the older MME (Multi-Media Extensions)
drivers. If your sound card vendor has a WDM driver, it’s usually a good idea use it. The following
table compares their characteristics.
IRQs
An IRQ (Interrupt Request) is an assigned location where the CPU expects to be interrupted by a
device when it has completed a task. There are 16 IRQs on a computer. Usually, three or four are
taken by the system, leaving 12 or 13 for other devices, like printers, USB devices, hard disks, floppy
disk drives, keyboard and sound card. Some of these devices can share an IRQ with other devices,
but for the most part this is not a good thing, and for a sound card which can use a lot of CPU power,
it can be a real problem. IRQ conflicts can cause your system to freeze or fail to boot up properly, or
the system may fail to recognize your sound card. Sometimes the problem only reveals itself when
you attempt to use the device that is sharing an IRQ.
WDM
MME
Lower latency
Usually higher latency
Not every sound card vendor has
produced a WDM driver.
MME drivers are widely available.
Note:
If you use two or more sound cards at the same time, and not all
of them have WDM drivers, you must force the WDM drivers to function
as MME drivers. Go to
Edit > Preferences > Audio - Playback and
Recording
and select
MME
in the
Driver Mode
list.
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Содержание sonar x3
Страница 1: ...SONAR X3 Reference Guide...
Страница 4: ...4 Getting started...
Страница 112: ...112 Tutorial 1 Creating playing and saving projects Saving project files...
Страница 124: ...124 Tutorial 3 Recording vocals and musical instruments...
Страница 132: ...132 Tutorial 4 Playing and recording software instruments...
Страница 142: ...142 Tutorial 5 Working with music notation...
Страница 150: ...150 Tutorial 6 Editing your music...
Страница 160: ...160 Tutorial 7 Mixing and adding effects...
Страница 170: ...170 Tutorial 8 Working with video Exporting your video...
Страница 570: ...570 Control Bar overview...
Страница 696: ...696 AudioSnap Producer and Studio only Algorithms and rendering...
Страница 720: ...720 Working with loops and Groove Clips Importing Project5 patterns...
Страница 820: ...820 Drum maps and the Drum Grid pane The Drum Grid pane...
Страница 848: ...848 Editing audio Audio effects audio plug ins...
Страница 878: ...878 Software instruments Stand alone synths...
Страница 1042: ...1042 ProChannel Producer and Studio only...
Страница 1088: ...1088 Sharing your songs on SoundCloud Troubleshooting...
Страница 1140: ...1140 Automation Recording automation data from an external controller...
Страница 1178: ...1178 Multi touch...
Страница 1228: ...1228 Notation and lyrics Working with lyrics...
Страница 1282: ...1282 Synchronizing your gear MIDI Machine Control MMC...
Страница 1358: ...1358 External devices Working with StudioWare...
Страница 1362: ...1362 Using CAL Sample CAL files...
Страница 1386: ...1386 Troubleshooting Known issues...
Страница 1394: ...1394 Hardware setup Set up to record digital audio...
Страница 1400: ...1400 MIDI files...
Страница 1422: ...1422 Initialization files Initialization file format...
Страница 1463: ...1463 Misc enhancements New features in SONAR X3...
Страница 1470: ...1470 Comparison...
Страница 1518: ...1518 Included plug ins Instruments...
Страница 1532: ...1532 Cyclone Using Cyclone...
Страница 1694: ...1694 Beginner s guide to Cakewalk software Audio hardware sound cards and drivers...
Страница 1854: ...1854 Preferences dialog Customization Nudge Figure 518 The Nudge section...
Страница 1856: ...1856 Preferences dialog Customization Snap to Grid Figure 519 The Snap to Grid section...
Страница 1920: ...1920 Snap Scale Settings dialog...
Страница 2042: ...2042 View reference Surround panner...