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Using the Dante PCIe Card with an Audio

Application

Choosing an Audio Application

The Dante PCIe-R acts like a standard Core Audio device in an Apple Mac machine, and like an ASIO

sound device in a PC running Windows.

ASIO for Windows

There are a number of different audio interfaces commonly used by Windows. The Dante PCIe-R provides

an ASIO audio interface, and is compatible with audio applications that support this standard. This is the

interface preferred by most pro audio applications such as Cubase

and Nuendo

Note: The Dante PCIe-R does not support Windows audio interfaces (such as WDM/MME and

DirectX) and cannot be used with common media players available for Windows, including

Windows

Media Player and iTunes

Core Audio for Mac OS X

The Core Audio interface is used by almost all audio applications available for Mac OS X. This allows you

to use the Dante PCIe-R with applications ranging from professional audio applications such as Logic to

media players such as iTunes.

Choosing Dante as your Audio Interface

Audio applications generally provide a mechanism for selecting the sound card that they will use. Before

configuring the application to use the Dante PCIe-R as its audio interface, make sure you have configured

the card with your required settings (sample rate and latency) and rebooted your computer if necessary.

Windows

Select and configure the Dante PCIe-R as your audio interface from within the audio application. It should

appear as “Dante PCIe ASIO Driver” in the list of available soundcards. Note that if “Dante PCIe ASIO

Driver” does not appear in the list of available sound cards, the Dante PCIe-R is either not installed

properly or not operating correctly.

Mac OS X

You will need to set the Dante PCIe-R as the system’s default sound card in order to use applications like

iTunes. More sophisticated audio applications such as Logic allow you to select the card from within the

application itself.

For applications which allow a sound card to be selected, choose “Dante PCIe” from the list of available

sound cards for both input and output. Note that if “Dante PCIe” does not appear in the list of available

sound cards, the Dante PCIe-R is either not installed properly or not operating correctly.