Owner`s manual

Quick Start Guide
Congratulations! You have just purchased one of the finest analog-to-digital converters available. Please take a
few minutes to fill out and return the warranty registration card. In order to get technical support and warran-
ty repairs, you must return your warranty registration card, or register your unit on-line at
http://www.apogeedigital.com/. It won’t take you long, it will cost you the price of a stamp or less, and you’ll
be happy you did later on.
Your Rosetta AD is shipped from Apogee ready to go. It has spent at least two days ‘burning-in’. This burn-in
procedure involves powered operation at elevated temperatures to isolate units that would possibly fail due to
component defects.
We recommend that you read this entire manual to get the most out of your new converter.
In this manual, sections printed in bold type and/or prefaced by the “96k” logo refer to additional
considerations when using the Rosetta 96.
Remember that if you have a standard 44.1/48 kHz sampling Rosetta AD, you can always upgrade it to
add 88.2/96 kHz sampling capability. See your Apogee dealer for upgrade details.
If you’re anxious to start using the Rosetta, you’ll find that its operation is intuitive. This quick-start guide is
designed to quickly get you up and running.
1 Connect your left and right analog inputs to the rear panel XLR connectors. The input polarity is set to pin
2 hot from the factory. Balanced or unbalanced signals are both accommodated automatically (no need to
set anything on the unit). If your input is wired for pin 3 hot, on the back panel, place DIP switch #2 in the
UP position (see page 16 for more information).
2 Connect the digital output from either of the AES/EBU male XLR connectors on the rear panel, the S/PDIF
RCA connector, the optical output connector (ADAT or S/PDIF TOSLINK) and/or the TDIF connector
(Tascam DA-88/98/38) to the appropriate connector on your recording device. If you are using the TDIF for-
mat, connect the WORD CLOCK output of the Rosetta to the Word Sync input of your recorder and set the
recording device to “WORD” clock.
3 Connect the AC power cord to the rear panel and into the wall.
4 Press the front panel power switch to power-up the Rosetta.
5 Select the SAMPLE RATE (typically 44.1 or 48 kHz).
6 Select the RESOLUTION to 24-bit, 20-bit UV22HR, or 16-bit UV22HR depending on the capabilities of the
system that you are using.
7 Your Rosetta should now be sending digital audio. Confirm this by looking at the meters of the receiving
device.
Rosetta AD User’s Guide
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