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General Tab Options:
Option. . . How to use it. . .
Playback Timing Master and Record
Timing Master
These two options determine which
sound cards control timing for the song,
if you’re using multiple wave drivers for
playback or recording. Note that if you’ve
got two wave drivers, but all audio tracks
are playing on only one wave driver, then
that driver will be the timing master no
matter what you choose.
Every sound card’s clock crystal is
slightly different, which causes minor
differences in the actual playback rate on
each card. These differences may lead to
slight synchronization problems if you
use one card for recording and a different
one for playback, even if you select the
same card as the timing master for both
recording and playback. Multiple wave
drivers on the same card will not have
sync problems.
Number of Aux Busses This determines how many auxiliary
mixes can be created. These are useful
for effects sends and other purposes.
Specify only the number of aux busses
you intend to use.
Audio Driver Bit Depth Determines the number of bits per
sample used for communicating with the
audio hardware for playback or recording.
Your audio hardware must be capable of
supporting the setting you supply here.
In most cases, even if your hardware is
"advertised" as being 18 or 20 bit, you
will want to set this value to 24 for
optimum performance.
Mono This option forces monaural recording
and playback. It is required for full-duplex
recording on the Roland RAP-10.