Introduction
Thank you for purchasing the Digital X Bus FireWire Card! The following is a brief tutorial
that will walk you through installing the card, connecting it to your computer, and sending
audio streams back and forth through FireWire.
The purpose of this User Guide is to illustrate the steps and procedures required to use the
FireWire Card with your Mac or PC. We recommend referring to the Digital X Bus Owner’s
Manual for general information on using the I/O Option Cards with the mixer. You can
download the Owner’s Manual from the following link:
http://www.mackie.com/products/digitalxbus/pdfs/X200_OM_Ver1_0_4.pdf
Hardware Installation
By now you should have read the
ReadMe.txt
file that is on this CD to learn how to install the
FireWire Card into your Digital X Bus. This process is done exactly the same way as any
other Digital X Bus option card. However, because the FireWire Card supports 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 you use it as an eight-channel input/output card only.
For Version 1.0, we strongly recommend that you install the FireWire Card into mixer Slot #1
…that is, the card slot all the way to the right-hand side of the rear panel.
Once your FireWire Card is installed, boot up your console and verify that you can see the
FireWire Card in the I/O Configuration Panel (
Windows>I/O Configuration
).
Minimum System Requirements
The following system requirements are needed to support the standard 8x8 Host Mode
configuration of the FireWire Card at 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz sampling rates. System resource
requirements may vary with higher sampling rates and different Host Modes.
Mac:
- G4-class CPU or faster
- 256MB RAM (512MB+ recommended)
- OS 10.3.5 or higher
- OS X Core Audio supported application(s)
PC:
- Windows
XP
- 800MHz CPU or faster
- 256MB RAM (512MB+ recommended)
- IEEE 1394 compatible interface
- ASIO or WDM supported application(s)
3
