Installation guide

Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver Installation Guide
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When using devices compatible with the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver with DAW software, set up the Audio/MIDI driver settings of
the DAW software as follows.
Audio Driver
Windows WDM Driver: “Yamaha Steinberg FW WDM Audio”
Windows ASIO Driver: “Yamaha Steinberg FW ASIO”
Mac: “Yamaha Steinberg FW”
MIDI Driver
The port name of MIDI driver is shown as “xxx(Device name)
xxx (Port name).”
For details on the difference in each port’s features for
devices, refer to the owner’s manual of your particular device.
This Control Panel window lets you set basic devices compatible with the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver parameters when using
Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver. The Control Panel consists of the General window, device compatible with the Yamaha Steinberg FW
Driver window and About window which lets you set the parameters such as sampling rate and WORD CLOCK Source. The set-
tings here are immediately applied to the device compatible with the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver.
How to call up the Control Panel window
Windows:
• Double-click the driver icon indicated on the Taskbar Notification area, or
right-click the icon, then select “Control Panel.”
•Select [Start]
 [Control Panel]  [Hardware and Sound]  [Yamaha
Steinberg FW Driver].
• When using Cubase series Version 4.5 or later, from the Device field on the Device Setup window (called up via [Device].
[Device Setup...]) of Cubase, select “Yamaha Steinberg FW ASIO” then select “Control Panel.” (When using ASIO com-
patible software, you can open the control panel via to open the ASIO control panel of the DAW software. For details, refer
to the owner’s manual of the DAW software.)
Mac:
• Select [System Preference...]
 [Yamaha Steinberg FW]
• (Mac OS X 10.5) Select the Application folder
 Utility folder  Audio MIDI Setup  Set “Properties” to “Yamaha Stein-
berg FW”, then click [Configure Device]
• (Mac OS X 10.6) Select Application folder
 Utility folder  Audio MIDI Setup  Select “Yamaha Steinberg FW” in the
“Audio Devices” window. Click Action menu at the left bottom of the window, then select [Configure device...].
• When using Cubase series Version 4.5 or later, from the Device field on the Device Setup window (called up via [Device]
 [Device Setup...]) of Cubase, select “Yamaha Steinberg FW” then click “Control Panel”  click [Open Config App] but-
ton in the “CoreAudio Device Settings” window.
NOTE
• The explanations below use Windows are an example, but the basic operation is the same for both Windows and Mac.
Parameter functions
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Tab
Calls up the corresponding window.
To close the Control Panel window, click the “X” at the top
right corner of the window on Windows, or click the “X” at the
top left corner of the window on Mac.
NOTE
• When two or three devices compatible with Yamaha Stein-
berg FW Driver are connected in daisy-chain fashion, the
corresponding tabs are indicated for each device. When
the same two or three devices are connected, the corre-
sponding tabs are indicated with numbers assigned to
each device. For details, refer to page 15.
Selecting the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver
Changing Settings After Installation
Driver icon
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