Cme UF400E V1.0 User Manual

Firewire Audio Expansion Board

English Manual

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hereby declare that the product:

UF400e

to which this declaration refers is in compliance with the following standards or

standardizing documents:

EN 55022, EN 55024

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residential, business and commercial environments and small-company environments.

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From opening the package to installation...........................................................6

Hardware installation..........................................................................................7

Which operating system?..........................................................................................8

Installing the UF400e drivers in Windows XP...........................................................8

The UF400e as a system audio device (Windows)..................................................11

Which operating system?........................................................................................11

Installing the UF400e driver in OS X......................................................................12

The UF400e as a system audio device (Mac OS X).................................................12

MIDI IN S.W...........................................................................................................14

Analog outputs........................................................................................................14

Analog inputs..........................................................................................................15

Digital interface (S/PDIF).......................................................................................16

MIDI interface........................................................................................................16

Drivers................................................................................................................17

The Windows drivers............................................................................................17

The MME wave driver.........................................................................................17

The ASIO driver and the ASIO Control Panel......................................................17

The GSIF driver...................................................................................................18

The MIDI driver...................................................................................................18

In detail—special properties of the drivers.........................................................18

DirectSound & WDM..........................................................................................19

WDM sample rate (SR) interpolation...................................................................19

WDM kernel streaming........................................................................................19

The Mac OS X drivers...........................................................................................19

Inputs (Analog In, Digital In)..................................................................................21

Outputs (Wave Play 1/2, 3/4, Digital Play)..............................................................22

Master......................................................................................................................22

Master Clock...........................................................................................................22

Routing...................................................................................................................23

Analog Out 3/4 (Line / Headphone)........................................................................23

The ASIO panel.......................................................................................................23

Colors......................................................................................................................24

About......................................................................................................................25

Appendix A—Technical Data............................................................................26

Technical data.........................................................................................................26

Safety information

Please ensure that UF400e Fi rewire Audio Expansion Board

devices are turned off before plugging them in. This will protect

you from any possible—albeit weak—electrical shocks, as well as

protect your speakers and your hearing from sudden peaks.

For digital devices, be sure to at least lower the volume on your

playback equipment.

Connecting the device to the FireWire™ port of your computer

may also cause a noise—please turn down the volume of your

playback system accordingly.

Welcome!

We’re pleased that you’ve chosen the UF400e Firewire Audio Expansion Board by

CME for your musical endeavors and would like to congratulate you on your decision.

With the UF400e Firewire Audio Expansion Board, you’ve purchased a sophisticated

product representing the state of the art of studio technology—and we’re convinced this

innovative development will prove extremely useful to you in the coming years and,

above all, provide you with a great deal of entertainment.

We hope that this brochure is helpful to you while using the product. It is designed

to illustrate technical relationships based on practical examples from the studio

environment. This brochure is not only designed to help beginners with this complicated

subject—advanced musicians will also  nd the occasional bit of useful information.

We hope you  nd this manual both informative and entertaining to read, and hope you

 nd lots of pleasure in the UF400e.

Your CME Team

—the perfect internal Firewire Audio Expansion

Bo ard b y C ME. F ant ast ic spe cs like 2 4-b it/ 192 k Hz, FireWir e™ port, MIDI

IN/OUT/THRU, a MIC or Instrument IN (high-quality and DI, with an adjustable level),

OUT (TRS) make the UF an ideal tool for musicians.

UF400e audio expansion Board, too, leave nothing to be

desired. Our sophisticated software architecture guarantees trouble-free deployment in

Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or higher) and MAC OS X Panther 10.3.4 (or higher).

The ASIO drivers—thoroughly proven throughout years of studio application—allow the

lowest possible latency between the software-based sound generation and audio output.

Before connecting the UF400e into UFX, take note of any special points pertaining to

the con guration of your computer. Also refer to the manual of your computer and UF

devices for their settings.

The installation should run without any problems, especially in recent systems. If you

are experiencing dif culties all the same, please review carefully the relevant chapter in

this manual. If you are still having problems, please call our service hotline, or seek help

from our web: www. cme-pro. com.

The UF400e package should contain the following items:

• 1 UF400e expansion Board (the UF400e hardware)

• 1 IEEE 1394 FireWire™ cable 6-pin/6-pin

• 1 UF400e CD

• 1 manual (Here you are reading it)

Connect the UF keyboard with UF400e

First, remove the backboard from the back of UF

Connect pre-reserved connectors to UF400e Board

Put the Board into the groove of UF

Tighten the screws

Which operating system?

The UF400e can be used only under Windows XP (Home and Professional editions).

Older Windows versions are not supported. Please ensure that you have applied the

current service packs and updates to your Windows installation (Service Pack 1 or

higher).

the “My Computer” icon and choose “Properties” from the context menu. If you’

re still using the default Teletubbyland XP wallpaper, you can access these menu

item by clicking : Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> System. Service Pack 1—

or SP1 for short—must be installed on your computer. If it is not, please contact

Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) to obtain an update for your system. The service

pack is generally free of charge.

2. Insert the included UF400e CD and wait for the autorun application to launch.

If the autorun application on the CD does not launch automatically, start the

application manually by double-clicking “Autorun.exe” in the root folder of

the CD. Click the “Installation” button in the autorun application to install the

UF400e driver and Control Panel in your operating system.

3. Choose a language for the setup wizard and click “Next” to continue with the

Please perform the following steps in the stated order. Do not

connect the UF400e Firewire Audio Expansion Board to the

computer until instructed to do so.

installation.

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