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8 output USB Audio Interface User’s Guide[...]
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ESI - Copyright © 2008 Revision 1, July 2008 www.esi-audio.com[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 3 INDEX 1. Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 4 1.1 Features ................................................................................................................................................................ 4 2[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 4 1. Introduction Congratulations on your purchas e of the ESI GIGAPORT HD. GIGAPORT HD is a USB audio in terface, that provides 8 anal og output channels and two independent high quality stereo headphone outputs. It is very easy to use, sm all and powerful. W ith our excellent driver support GIGAPORT HD work s perfect with all cu r[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 5 2. Installation 2.1 System Recommendation GIGAPORT HD is not simply a standard digital a udio interface card, but a high -resolution device capable of advanced processing of audio cont ent. Even though GIGAPORT HD is built to have low-CPU resource dependability, system specifica tions play a key part in the GIGAPORT HDs performanc[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 6 used for DVD playback or more simple DJ appl ications that don’t requir e ASIO. Under Mac OS X this could be applications like Garageband. Please not e that our special driver is also required if you are using higher sample rates than 44.1kHz. Installation under Windows XP Unplug the device before you star t the installer if it [...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 7 again prompt you to confirm the W indows Logo testing dialog once or several times with Continue Anway before the driver installation is finalized. You can now finally click Next on the ESI GIGAPORT HD Audio Driver Setup dialog. The installation is now finished. To confirm this, please check if the ESI icon is displayed in the tas[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 8 The installer now informs you that the driver inst allation will start as shown on the left picture below. Confirm this with Next . During the following process you might see a Windows Security dialog box once or several times th at asks you for confirmation to install the driver software. Confirm any such dialog with Install . Yo[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 9 3. Control Panel This chapter describes the GIGAPORT HD Contro l Panel under Windows. Under Mac OS X no special Control Panel is required. To open the control panel double click on the ESI icon in the task notification area. The following dialog will appea r: The Output section controls the playback volume of each playback signal [...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 10 Latency setting With the Latency menu entry under Config , you can change the latency of the driver of GIGAP ORT HD. Depending on the typical application (e.g. for playback of software synthesizers) a smaller latency is an advantage. At the sa me time, the best laten cy setting indirectly depends on the perfor mance of your syste[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 11 Make sure to select ESI GIGAPORT ASIO as ASIO Driver entry. Note that the Control Panel button has no effect. Confirm your changes by clicking OK . Now its time to select th e output channels. From the Devices menu, select VST Connection . The VST Connections window appears. Select the Outputs tab. Your output busses can be mono [...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 12 5. Specifications 1. Interface - USB spec version 1.1 - USB audio class spec version 1.0 - fully compatible to USB 2.0 host controllers 2. Output Type - analog 8 channel output (RCA jack) - 2 headphone outputs (3.5mm mini jack for a mixed output signal and an independent 2 channel playback) 3. Analog Output Level - -10dBV unbalan[...]
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ESI GIGAPORT HD 13 6. General Information Trademarks ESI, and GIGAPORT HD are trademarks of EGOSYS, Inc. and ES I Audiotechnik GmbH. Windows is a trademark of Microsoft Corporati on. Other product and brand names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respectiv e companies. The FCC and CE Regulation Warning This device complies with Part [...]