LAGOON LAGOON TM MANUAL ™
Table of Contents Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Included Drivers: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 Minimum System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 What’s in the Box? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Introduction Congratulations on your purchase of a LAGOON PCI Digital Audio Card! With this card, high-quality digital audio processing becomes possible with your PC. The card offers optical digital I/O and an ADAT Sync connector (standard Alesis 9-pin DB connector). The optical digital I/Os may be software-configured to S/PDIF or ADAT mode while supporting Full Duplex for simultaneous record and playback (e.g.
Minimum System Requirements • Windows 95 or 98 • Pentium 166 or higher with MMX, 200 MHz recommended. • 32 MByte RAM, 64 MByte recommended. What’s in the Box? Your LAGOON box contains: • This Instruction Manual • The LAGOON PCI card • 1x1 MIDI Interface Cable • Diskettes for Windows 95/98 installation • Midiman Warranty Registration Card Important: Please fill out the included Warranty Registration Card and mail or fax it to us as soon as possible.
3. Toslink Optical Output: This standard female Toslink output jack accepts a standard male Toslink plug, typically connected to either an ADAT 8-channel format input or S/PDIF 2-channel format input (as configured in the Lagoon Tools Applet). 4. ADAT Sync/MIDI Jumper: (see section, “Hardware Installation”). Installation Here is a list of the steps required to get your LAGOON PCI Digital Audio Card up and running. Please read the associated section of the manual and follow the instructions carefully. 1.
Hardware Installation To physically install the LAGOON card into your computer, please do the following: 1. Turn off your computer. 2. Remove the cover and position the computer so that you can easily access its PCI slots. 3. Select the PCI slot into which you will install your LAGOON card. PCI slots are distinguishable from ISA slots by being shorter and set back farther from the outside of the computer. If you’re still unsure, consult your computer or mainboard user’s guide. 4.
Windows Driver and Software Installation The Lagoon PCI includes a Windows 98/95 diskette containing the Windows drivers, ASIO drivers, and Lagoon Tools Applet software. To install these on your system, please follow these steps: Windows 98 Installation 1. After installing the Lagoon hardware, boot your system and start Windows. During the Windows boot procedure, new hardware will be automatically detected by the Add New Hardware Wizard as shown here. Click ‘Next>’. 2.
Verifying Windows Driver Installation Windows displays the Lagoon driver status in the Device Manager page of the System Properties dialog box. The Device Manager page is opened via the Windows Start button: select Start | Settings | Control Panel | System | Device Manager. With the Device Manager displayed, click on the “+” next to “Sound, video and game controllers” to open a list of devices, the Lagoon being a device of that nature. Below is an example view of the Device Manager.
4. 5. 6. 7. folder on your C: drive, install the Multimedia and ASIO drivers, plus install a groovy monophonic virtual analog synthesizer. This synth is the first of a series of synthesizers and effects that will be made available for the Lagoon as they are developed. Click ‘OK’. Lagoon Setup will allow you to select a folder into which to install the Tools Applet software. Again, we suggest just sticking with the “Lagoon” folder, but advanced users can make another selection here. Click ‘OK’.
1. Connect the LAGOON PCI Toslink Optical Output to the Input of your receiving device. a) If you are sending a 2-channel signal, your recieving device may be the S/PDIF digital input of a stereo amplifier or mixer, DAT mixdown deck, or stereo D/A converter (such as Midiman’s Flying Calf D/A or the M Audio SuperDAC). A D/A converter will convert the digital signal to analog, which would allow input to the same types of analog receiving devices.
Using LAGOON with Application Software Once the Lagoon’s hardware, driver software, and Tools Applet are properly installed, it is ready for use with your music application software. Some of these applications may require you to highlight or enable the Lagoon drivers within the program, and others may have a utility that analyzes or profiles the audio cards in your system and enables the drivers. Your software should have an audio device driver setup page, as well as a MIDI driver setup page.
ASIO DRIVER INPUT DEVICES: When using the ASIO audio drivers with programs that support ASIO-style audio, the input devices are displayed as mono devices. Within ASIO software applications, the names of the Lagoon audio input devices are: ADAT1 1/2 ADAT1 3/4 ADAT1 5/6 ADAT1 7/8 ASIO DRIVER OUTPUT DEVICES: The Lagoon’s ASIO output devices appear in stereo pairs. Because each device is stereo, you may see “left” and “right” references within your software application.
Info Page The Info page provides information about the installed drivers. In the screen shot above you can see that the driver version is 1.4 (you probably have a newer one) and that both the MME and ASIO drivers are installed. This can be modified by clicking on the button named Start setup to modify. You will further notice two small buttons in the upper right corner of the LAGOON Tools window. The right one is as usual for closing the LAGOON Tools. The left one has a special function.
Mode The optical input and output can be configured separately either as S/PDIF or ADAT. This means mixing of both digital formats is possible as the LAGOON supports mixed mode operation. If you configure the input as ADAT, you may further activate a ‘Toshiba to Sharp’ filter by clicking on Options and then on T2S. (T2S is activated if you see a check). The T2S is intended to compensate for differences on the optical jacks manufactured by Toshiba and Sharp.
Sample Rate If Optical In or ADAT Sync In is selected as Clock source, then there is no need for choosing a Sample rate. Only if LAGOON is selected you may choose the Sample rate. Configuring input or output as ADAT you may select among 44.1 kHz and 48 kHz only (as only these frequencies fulfill the ADAT demands). Configuring both input and output as S/PDIF you can use all sample rates up to 96 kHz (if your external equipment supports them).
Consumer Mode Using the Consumer mode, you may change settings concerning the Copy bit, the Generation status, the Category code, the Pre emphasis and the Sample rate. For switching back to the default settings, click on Default values. The Copy bit is useful when recording digital audio data to a DAT tape to inhibit or permit further copies of that tape. By default, further copies are permitted.
The default setting for Encoded audio signal emphasis is Not indicated. It depends on your digital audio data if there is a need for encoding an emphasis information. The Channel mode may also be set automatically by clicking on Auto mode. Overriding this is possible by clicking on either Not indicated, Two channels or Stereophonic. Auxiliary sample bits determine the number of bits your audio samples have.
Hint: S/PDIF signals are always related to audio channel number 1 and channel number 2. Therefore only device Lagoon In (1/2) and device Lagoon Out (1/2) are suitable when using S/PDIF signals. Hint: The LAGOON card operates with one sample rate at a time only. Opening devices with different sample rates will fail. ASIO Page In the ASIO page you can determine the Buffer size of the ASIO LAGOON driver. A smaller Buffer size results in a smaller latency time (e.g.
MIDI Page In the MIDI page you can activate or deactivate the MIDI input and MIDI output devices separately by using the two Enable checkboxes. Remember that changes will only take effect after rebooting Windows. There are three states a MIDI device may enter: Closed, Paused and Playing. If a MIDI device is not in use it is Closed. Paused MIDI devices are not actually playing. Playing indicates that a MIDI device is in use by an application.
An error light that is turned on only indicates that this error happened in the past. It does not mean that the error still exists. To check if the error still is present, click on Clear all errors. If the light is still on afterwards, the error is still there. If more than one error occurs within one of the four groups, only the error with the highest priority (the most important one = the error that is listed highest) will be displayed in this group.
Error No lock Possible Reasons and Remarks 1. The optical receiver has detected an invalid signal. 2. The optical receiver was unable to follow a frequency change fast enough. (If some external equipment changes the sample frequency, the optical receiver may take a short time to adapt to this new frequency.) 3. The incoming signal has too much jitter. Data invalid (ADAT only) 1. There is too much jitter in the incoming signal that leads to transmission errors.
Alignment error The audio channels were received in wrong order (e.g. left and right channels interchanged). This error should only appear temporarily when changing the input data format (e.g. changing from ADAT to S/PDIF.) Out of sync Optical input and optical output do not have the same sample rate, i. e. your external device is not synchronized to the LAGOON (e.g. there is a CDPlayer connected to the optical input while your LAGOON is the clock master).
MIDI Errors MIDI errors are related to the MIDI input of the LAGOON card. Receiving MIDI data is possible in two ways: MIDI data coming in from the LAGOON MIDI cable connected to your external MIDI equipment or MIDI data coming in from the ADAT Sync cable connected to your ADAT recorder. Error Possible Reasons and Remarks Frame error There was an error in receiving MIDI bytes. The start bit, the stop bit, or both of them are not detected correctly. Check your MIDI cable and external equipment.
Sample Rates and Performance Input sample rate always shows the detected sample rate coming in from your optical cable. If this value varies continuously, please check if you configured the input correctly (Did you choose ADAT as input and falsely connect it to an S/PDIF device or vice versa?). What will be displayed as Output sample rate depends on the settings in the General page.
Troubleshooting Problem Advice Optical output does not work 1. Check if you connected the cable correctly: You should see a red light coming out of the optical cable that comes from the output of your LAGOON card. 2. Check if you chose the correct output format (S/PDIF or ADAT) in the LAGOON Tools General page. 3. Check MME Output device settings in the LAGOON Tools MME page. Maybe No output device is selected. 4. Check your application software output configuration.
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