User's Manual

ESI GIGAPORT eX

3.4 DirectWIRE Loopback

GIGAPORT eX has a feature that we call DirectWIRE Loopback. It allows you to record the playback

internally. For instance, you can use it to playback any audio signal in any application while you

record it with a different software or you could record the main master output signal of a DJ mix on

the same computer. There are many possible applications, i.e. you can record what you are streaming

online or you can save the output of a software synthesizer application. Essentially, you can make a

1:1 identical transfer of the playback signal digitally inside your system.

You will find in the Windows Sound control panel and in the audio settings of many applications that

there is a 2 channel MME/WDM input device called GIGAPORT eX Loopback (shown on the picture

in the previous section). Also ASIO compatible applications can use 2 input channels. How it works

is that anything you play back via physical output channels 1 and 2 within the same or even from

another application can be recorded internally.

Please note that the signals you play via outputs 3 to 8 cannot be recorded internally, only those from

playback channel 1 and 2 - with the exception that those signals you assign from other playback

channels to output 1 and 2 via the DirectWIRE Output Channels functionality (described earlier) are

also being recorded.