System information
Item Description
Default rear playback
device
Choose the device that you want to use for playing the rear channels
of a 5.1 surround project.
Default center and LFE
playback device
Choose the device that you want to use for playing the center and
low-frequency effect channels of a 5.1 surround project.
Playback buffering
(seconds)
Drag the slider to adjust the amount of buffering that occurs before
starting playback.
The larger the number, the more buffering occurs during playback.
This value must be as low as possible without gapping. To set it, start
at .25 and play back a typical song. Move some of the track faders.
If the playback gaps at all, try increasing this slider in small
increments until the gapping goes away.
If you simply cannot get playback to be free of gapping, you need to
either decrease the number of tracks you are trying to play
simultaneously, install more RAM in your computer so you can
increase buffering, buy a faster access hard drive, or minimize the
number of DirectX plug-ins you are trying to use simultaneously.
Enable track buffering Select this check box and drag the Track buffering slider if you want
to adjust the amount of audio that is prerendered ahead of the
cursor position.
When the check box is selected, a separate processing thread is used
to render audio from tracks. On multiprocessor or multicore
computers, a thread will be created for each logical processor,
resulting in improved track counts, improved performance with lower
latency, and faster audio rendering.
When the check box is cleared, a single processing thread is used to
render audio from tracks and busses.
Default audio recording
device
Choose the device that you want to use for recording sound data.
Selecting the Microsoft Sound Mapper allows the operating system
to select an appropriate device to use for the current sound data.
Automatically detect
and offset for hardware
recording latency
Select the check box to automatically compensate for offset between
the time you initiate recording and when your sound card starts
recording.
Clear the check box and drag the User Offset slider to specify an
offset value (hold Ctrl while dragging for fine adjustment).
Advanced Clicking this button opens the Advanced Audio Preferences dialog.
For more information, see "Advanced Audio Preferences" on page
596.
Default All Click on the Default All button to restore all Audio preferences to the
default settings.
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