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Setting up your system 4 – 31
• Normally, you can open the control panel by clicking the Control Panel
button in the VST Multitrack panel.
The control panel that appears when you click this button is provided by the audio
hardware manufacturer and not V-STACK (unless you use DirectX or MME, see be-
low). Hence it will be different for each audio card brand and model. The settings may
include options for buffering, synchronization, digital input and output formats etc.
The Control panels for the ASIO Multimedia and ASIO DirectX drivers are an excep-
tion, as they are provided by Steinberg. They provide their own help information,
opened by clicking the Help button in the respective dialog. See also the notes below.
• If you are using non-ASIO audio hardware under Mac OS X, you will
find the control panel for your audio hardware in the System Prefer-
ences (“Other” section), opened from the Apple menu or from the Dock.
If you are using the built-in audio hardware of the Macintosh, you use the “Sound” con-
trol panel in the System Preferences to set levels, balance, etc.
4. If you plan to use several audio applications simultaneously, you may
want to activate the option “Release ASIO Driver in Background”.
This will allow another application to play back via your audio hard-
ware even though V-STACK is running.
The application that is currently active (i.e. the “top window” on the desktop), will get
access to the audio hardware. Make sure that any other audio application accessing
the audio hardware is also set to release the ASIO (or Mac OS X) driver so V-STACK
can use it when becoming the active application again.
5. Click Apply and then OK to close the dialog.