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create at least one audio part by selecting ‘Edit | Add part’
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then, select the menu item, ‘Window | Audio setup’. A setup
dialog box will appear.
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first, configure the Device Setup portion of the dialog box
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‘
Stereo
’ should be checked
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select a sample rate (e.g. 44 kHz); the higher the rate, the better
the sound quality but the bigger the recorded files.
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next, the Parts need to be mapped to the audio output devices.
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make sure the ‘
Ster.
’ (stereo) option is
checked
on each line.
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assign the Parts to ‘
Wave/4 Wave OUT Ch1 L+R
’ or ‘Wave/4
Wave OUT Ch2 L+R
’
Next, assign the input channels by clicking on the button ‘Set Input
Devices’. This causes another dialog box to open for mapping Parts to
input devices. Assign the parts to ‘
Wave/4 Wave IN Ch1 L+R
’ or
‘
Wave/4 Wave IN Ch2 L+R
’. Finally, to fine tune Musicator, you may
wish to run the audio auto-calibrate function.
Setting up Samplitude for the Wave/4 card
Samplitude is a popular multi-track digital audio program from Ger-
many. Follow these steps to configure the program for the Wave/4
card. Settings not mentioned here can be left at their default values.
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The initial step in using Samplitude is to setup a new virtual
project (a VIP). To do this, select the menu item ‘File | New
Multitrack project’. A dialog box will appear. Choose ‘
Stereo
’
and specify the number of tracks. (Note: these are virtual tracks
and you are not limited to 4. The maximum number of tracks is
determined by the performance capability of your PC).
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After the VIP is setup, make sure that ‘
Multi-card mode
’ is
active
(green). This option can also be set with the menu item, ‘File |
Properties | Multiple cards’.
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Recording: select ‘File | Record’ or click on the Record button
(it’s a red circle). The Record dialog box will be displayed.
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Make sure that the record mode is set to
Stereo
.
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Select the desired
Wave/4 IN
Device for input.
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Make sure that ‘Playback while Recording’ is
checked
.
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Set the ‘Record Offset’ to
0
.
Samplitude 4 also has a number of
buffer settings
for digital audio.
These can be left at their default value of
8192.
The
‘Buffer number’
should be set to
6.
