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Page 2 - About the Workshop Booklets; Owner’s Manual; About This Booklet; Using the M-16DX as a DAW Controller; Understanding the Symbols in This Booklet; Hot Links; The Basics of Working with a DAW; audio gets into a DAW

2 About the Workshop Booklets The EDIROL M-16DX 16-Channel Digital Mixer delivers the power of digital mixing to musicians at an incredibly affordable price. This crystal-clear 24-bit digital mixer supports sample rates up to 96 kHz, and it’s extremely flexible, with a wide range of analog and digit...

Page 3 - How Audio Gets Into a DAW; Audio arrives at an M-16DX input channel—; How You Listen to What You’re Doing; In a multitrack session—; About Multitrack Session Monitoring; Latency; little; Zero-Latency Monitoring; What you hear is not

3 How Audio Gets Into a DAW Once you’ve set everything up: Audio arrives at an M-16DX input channel— • When you connect a mic, instrument, or other audio device to an M-16DX input jack, its audio is automatically routed to the corresponding M-16DX input channel. You select the desired M-16DX channel...

Page 4 - including its metronome and/or already-recorded; About Two-Track Session Monitoring; Setting Up

4 When you listen to the M-16DX stereo main mix bus with zero-latency monitoring, what you hear is what you’re recording— • directly through its M-16DX channel. the DAW’s output— • including its metronome and/or already-recorded tracks, through M-16DX Channel 13/14. or Channel 13/14’s USB button is ...

Page 5 - Downloading Drivers; PC—; Windows XP Driver Installation

5 Downloading Drivers Each driver installer includes details regarding the OS system requirements for its driver, as well as a list of cautions and limitations. Point your browser to the following URL or click the link below: 1 http://www.rolandus.com/products/productdetails.aspx?ObjectId=860 In you...

Page 6 - Select

6 If you see the Software Installation window instead of the one shown above, click Continue Anyway. If you can’t continue, see “About Driver Signing Options” later in this booklet. A progress bar appears for a moment, and then the following screen: With the M-16DX’s power turned off, plug one end o...

Page 7 - About Driver Signing Options; Category View—; Mac OS X Driver Installation

7 About Driver Signing Options The Driver Signing window lets you select whether Windows should block the installation of an unknown driver, warn you about it, or just install it. In the Start menu, select Control Panel. 1 If you’re in 2 Category View— • click Performance and Maintenance, and then c...

Page 8 - System Settings for Your Computer; Optimizing Your Windows PC for Audio

8 Click Continue, and then click Install, or Upgrade if you’ve previously 5 installed an earlier version of the M-16DX driver.If the computer asks you to enter your computer’s administrator 6 password, type it in and click OK.When the computer tells you you’ll need to restart the computer 7 after th...

Page 9 - Background Services; Using the M-16DX for System Sounds; Sending Windows XP System Sounds to the M-16DX

9 In the Performance Options window, click the Advanced tab. 4 Select 5 Background Services as shown here. Click OK to close the Performance Options window, and then click OK 6 to close the System Properties window. You’ll find more tips on tweaking Windows XP for recording and playback at MusicXP.n...

Page 10 - Sending Mac OS X System Sounds to the M-16DX

10 Double-click your current sound card in the list. 4 You’ll need to disable the sound card so it doesn’t conflict with the 5 M-16DX. If you want to disable the card for the current user of the PC— • set Device usage to Do not use this device in the current hardware profile (disable) . for all user...

Page 11 - The M-16DX Driver Settings; Windows XP; Matching Sample Rates; Using the M-16DX with a DAW

11 Click the Input tab, and select EDIROL M-16DX. 4 Close the Preferences window. 5 The M-16DX Driver Settings The M-16DX driver installer adds an M-16DX control panel to Windows, and a Preferences pane to Mac OS X. In these windows, you’ll find controls you may need as you set up and work with your...

Page 12 - you listen to the M-16DX main mix in your control room—; Session Monitoring Procedures; Listening in a Multitrack Session; On the LEVEL; Balancing Your Monitoring Mix; As you record, you’ll set up your monitor mix by

12 Getting to Work with the M-16DX and a DAW Configuring Your DAW The rest of the setting-up you need to do takes place in your DAW. We’ll give specific instructions on how to do these things in the individual DAW-specific Workshop booklets. Keeping Audio Clean Getting a clean audio signal when you’...

Page 13 - Using Effects in Your Monitoring Mix; Two-Track Session Monitoring; What You Hear Is Exactly What You Get; The Role of the USB Button in Two-Track Recording; recording—; Recording Setup Procedures; Select the Audio You Want to Record

13 Using Effects in Your Monitoring Mix The M-16DX’s loop effect—the one produced by its FX processor—adds an effected copy of a channel’s signal to the M-16DX’s main mix. Since you’re not recording the main mix, this effected copy isn’t recorded in the DAW. While loop effects aren’t recorded in a D...

Page 14 - Arm and Record Your Track; Playing Back Your Recording; EDIROL

14 Arm and Record Your Track Consult your DAW’s documentation to learn how to arm a track for recording, and how to begin recording. Playing Back Your Recording Your DAW’s documentation will tell you how to disarm a track, and how to play it back. In the M-16DX, you listen to the main mix, which inc...