Using the Card with an Audio Application
DANTE ACCELERATOR Operation Manual
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Using the Card with an Audio
Application
Choosing an Audio Application
The Dante Accelerator acts like a standard Core Audio device
in an Apple Mac computer, and like an ASIO sound device in a
PC running Windows.
ASIO for Windows
There are a number of different audio interfaces commonly
used by Windows. The Dante Accelerator provides an ASIO
audio interface, and is compatible with audio applications that
support this standard. This is the interface preferred by most
pro audio applications such as Nuendo and Cubase.
The Dante Accelerator does not support Windows audio
interfaces (such as WDM/MME and DirectX) and cannot be
used with common media players available for Windows,
including Windows Media Player and iTunes.
Core Audio for Mac OS X
The Core Audio interface is used by almost all audio
applications available for Mac OS X. This allows you to use
the Dante Accelerator with applications ranging from DAW
software such as Nuendo and Cubase to media players such
as iTunes.
Choosing Dante as your Audio Interface
Audio applications generally provide a mechanism for
selecting the sound card that they will use. Before configuring
the application to use the Dante Accelerator as its audio
interface, make sure you have configured the card with your
required settings (sample rate and latency) and rebooted your
computer if necessary.
Windows
Select and configure a Dante Accelerator as your audio
interface from within the audio application. It should appear as
"Yamaha AIC128-D" in the list of available sound cards. Note
that if "Yamaha AIC128-D" does not appear in the list of
available sound cards, the Dante Accelerator is either not
installed properly or not operating correctly.
Mac OS X
You will need to set the Dante Accelerator as the system's
default sound card in order to use applications like iTunes.
DAW software such as Nuendo and Cubase allows you to
select the card from within the application itself.
For applications which allow a sound card to be selected,
choose "Yamaha AIC128-D" from the list of available sound
cards for both input and output. Note that if "Yamaha AIC128-D"
does not appear in the list of available sound cards, the Dante
Accelerator is either not installed properly or not operating
correctly.
For applications which do not have a mechanism to select a
sound card from within the application, the System
Preferences panel must be used to configure the default
sound output and input settings as shown in the following
screens:
Configuring Sound on Mac OS X – System Preferences
Configuring Sound on Mac OS X – Input
