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Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver Installation Guide

General window

Sample Rate

Specifies the sample rate of the device compatible with the

Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver from 44.1 kHz, 48 kHz, 88.2 kHz

and 96 kHz.

NOTE

• The internal sample rate of the MOTIF XF/XS series instru-

ment and MOTIF-RACK XS tone generator is set to only

44.1 kHz no matter what setting is made here. The setting

here affects to the audio signal transmission/reception

between the FW16E/mLAN16E2 and the computer.

2 WORD CLOCK Master

Selects the master device of the Word Clock. This parameter

is available only when two or three devices compatible with

Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver are connected in daisy-chain

fashion.

3 Clock Source

Selects the Word Clock source of the current device compati-

ble with the Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver.

NOTE

• For the n8/n12/mLAN16E2/FW16E, you can select “Inter-

nal” only.

For the other devices compatible with the Yamaha Stein-

berg FW Driver, refer to the owner’s manual of the device.

4 ASIO Buffer Size (Windows only)

Determines the buffer size for the ASIO driver.

5 Input Latency/Output Latency (Windows only)

Indicates the delay time for the audio input/output in millisec-

ond units. Audio latency differs depending on the value of the

ASIO Buffer Size. The lower the value of the ASIO Buffer Size,

the lower the value of Audio Latency.

6 Enable MMCSS (Windows Vista/7 only)

Determines whether the MMCSS (Multimedia Class Sched-

uler Service) is active or not on Windows Vista/7. If you place

a checkmark in the checkbox, MMCSS will be enabled and

driver performance will be improved.

7 Audio Routing (Windows only)

Click this to call up the WDM Audio Routing window. From

this window, you can determine the input/output jack used for

the WDM Audio driver. In each section, the upper box selects

the device (only when two or three devices compatible with

Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver are connected in daisy-chain

fashion) and the lower box selects the input or output jacks.

NOTE

• This parameter specifies which jacks accept the input sig-

nals sent to a computer and to which jacks the output sig-

nals from the computer are sent. The input channels are

stereo channels. The output channels are six consecutive

channels from the stereo channels set in the output port

setting.

8 Place Icon In the taskbar (Windows only)

When this checkmark is entered, the driver icon is indicated

on the Taskbar Notification area.

9 Reset Device Number

Clicking this resets the indication order of the devices on the

DAW software. For details, refer to page 15. This operation is

only effective when two or more devices compatible with

Yamaha Steinberg FW Driver are connected in daisy-chain

fashion.