Xcorpio User’s Manual Version 1.
Trademarks: www.cme-pro.com CME and Xcorpio are the registered trademarks of Central Music Co. All the other trademarks belong to their respective owners. FCC INFORMATION (U.S.A) 1. IMPORTANT NOTICE: DO NOT MODIFY THIS UNIT! This product, when installed as indicated in the instructions contained in this manual, meets FCC requirements. Modifications not expressly approved by CME may void your authority, granted by the FCC, to use the product. 2.
Contents Welcome!......................................................................4 Contents in the Xcorpio package....................................5 About the special accessories of Xcorpio........................5 Connections of Xcorpio..................................................6 Installation and Un-installation of the Xcorpio Driver......7 Installing the Driver..........................................................................................7 Uninstalling the Driver................
Welcome! We’re pleased that you choose a CME audio interface product and would like to congratulate you on your decision. With the Xcorpio Audio System, you’ ve purchased a sophisticated product representing the state of the art in studio technology—and we’re convinced that this innovative development will prove to be extremely useful to you in the coming years and, above all, provide you with a great deal of entertainment.
Contents in the Xcorpio package Before installing Xcorpio, please make sure you found all the items in the Xcorpio package as show below. • 1 Xcorpio audio interface (Xcorpio A or Xcorpio I, depends on the model you chose) • 1 USB cable (about 1.8m) • 1 protective pouch • 1 metal clasp (including screw) • 1 user’s guide (This manual) • 1 driver CD About the special accessories of Xcorpio There are two special accessories in the Xcorpio package.
You can lock the metal clasp in different directions. (see above) Connections of Xcorpio The design of Xcorpio is simple and clear, users can get familiar with it in a very short time. Below is the detail of Xcorpio’s connectors. (Below the Xcorpio A is used as the example) 1. Headphone output (stereo, 3.5mm TRS) 2. Line output, left channel (un-balanced, RCA, black) 3. Line output, right channel (un-balanced, RCA, red) 4. Headphone volume control knob 5.
8. Analog input jack, left channel (balanced, XLR, black) 9. Analog input jack, right channel (balanced, XLR, red) 10. USB port Installation and Un-installation of the Xcorpio Driver Note: Please do not connect Xcorpio to USB port of your computer before the setup program requires you to do so. Installing the Driver Please insert the driver CD of Xcorpio into the CD-ROM drive of your computer. The auto-run program will start up automatically.
Select I accept the agreement then click Install. The Setup program will search to see if Xcorpio driver has already been installed. If it finds a previous driver, the setup program will un-install it first. It will take a moment, so please wait. The Setup program asks you to connect the Xcorpio to the computer. Please use a standard USB cable to connect Xcorpio and computer now. You do not need to click any button.
Once connected the Setup program will initialize Xcorpio, which will take several minutes. Please wait. Please unplug Xcorpio from USB port of computer. The Setup program asks you to connect the Xcorpio again. Please plug Xcorpio again.
Click Exit to complete the driver installation. Once the driver installation is complete, the Xcorpio should appear as “Xcorpio WDM Audio” in the “Sound, Video and game controllers” in the Device Manager. Uninstalling the Driver Note: Before un-installing the driver, you have to un-plug the Xcorpio from the computer. It is the same procedure as driver installation, please run the setup program. The current installation program only supports English, click OK to start the procedure.
Click the icon on the left of Uninstall the driver to remove the driver. Please wait during un-installation in progress. The Setup program will ask you to re-boot your system after removing the driver. Please click Reboot now to re-start your Windows system or Reboot later to go back to Windows.
Click Next to continue. We recommend that you accept the default path to install. Click Next to continue. Click Install to start installation.
Click Finish to complete the installation. Removing contral panel If you intend to remove control panel of Xcorpio, please go to the folder which control panel was installed and run “uninst.exe” to remove it. Introduction of control panel Now we will introduce the functions of the Xcorpio control panel one by one. Signal type Xcorpio can accept different types of signals.
Xcorpio. The signal type can be set individually for each channel to meet your needs. Input Gain and Output Volume In the Input Gain section , you can adjust the gain or attenuation of the input signal. You can control the output volume in the Output Volume section. The functions are similar for both Input and output sections. Below there is more detail about the control functions. Input Gain section 1. Clip LED The Clip LED will turn red when the input signal level is about to distortion. 2.
Output Volume All functions in this section are the same as “Input Gain”. The only difference is these functions control the output signals. Hardware Monitoring The Xcorpio will send a copy of the input signals direct to the output channels when Hardware Monitoring is enabled. This is very useful for recording software which only supports the WDM driver to achieve bidirection monitoring.
About Xcorpio’s control panel will show you information about your OS system, driver and application versions, etc, if you click the small circle on the top right of ”Xcorpio”. In “About” window, it includes hyper-link of CME. Click it and link to CME’ s web site. Click the small icon at the bottom right corner to close “About” window.
ASIO control panel The ASIO control panel is installed on your system when you installed the Xcorpio driver. In those applications that support ASIO drivers (such as Cuabse SX, WaveLab, Samplitude, etc.), you can select and access the ASIO driver and control panel of Xcorpio directly. The Latency setting of Xcorpio is related to the performance and capability of your system. Therefore, please keep trying to find out the most suitable buffer setting for your system.
ASIO driver setting in Cubase SX. ASIO driver setting in Samplitude.
Specifications • USB 2.0 interface with bus power. • Ultra-high quality AD / DA converters with 24-bit / 96KHz support. • 2 balanced XLR (Xcorpio A) or TRS (Xcorpio I) analog inputs. • Fixed gain for electrical guitar and microphone on input channels. (switchable by software) • Adjustable gain for input channels up to +18dB, 0.5dB per step. • Different signal types selectable for each input channel. (Line In, Mic In, Guitar In) • A stereo headphone output jack. (3.
