M-Audio Lagoon [13/28] The lagoon tools applet

ASIO DRIVER INPUT DEVICES: When using the ASIO audio drivers with

programs that support ASIO-style audio, the input devices are displayed as mono

devices. Within ASIO software applications, the names of the Lagoon audio input

devices are:

ADAT1 1/2

ADAT1 3/4

ADAT1 5/6

ADAT1 7/8

ASIO DRIVER OUTPUT DEVICES: The Lagoon’s ASIO output devices appear in

stereo pairs. Because each device is stereo, you may see “left” and “right”

references within your software application. This allows the application to pan

audio left and right under software control. To send a signal to a Lagoon ASIO

output 1 (for example) as a mono output send, one would choose “Analog 1/2

Lagoon” for that track’s output port, and then pan that output hard left. The ASIO

outputs are named as follows:

ADAT1 1/2

ADAT1 3/4

ADAT1 5/6

ADAT1 7/8

WINDOWS MULTIMEDIA SETTINGS: Windows may be set up to use the

Lagoon as its default audio device, allowing system sounds to be sent out the

Lagoon. This also enables you to use the Lagoon with the sound applets

included with Windows. To set this up, go to Control Panel | Multimedia. In

the Audio Properties page, set the Playback and Recording devices to the

Lagoon input and output devices of your choice.

The LAGOON Tools Applet

Using the LAGOON Tools you may configure the operation mode of the LAGOON

card. The LAGOON Tools may be easily accessed by clicking on the LAGOON icon

in the taskbar (alternately you can access them by clicking on the corresponding

entry in the Windows Start menu / Programs). Moreover, this icon provides

information about the status of the card. If it is permanently blue, everything is OK.

If the icon starts blinking red/blue, an error has occurred. By clicking on this icon

and selecting the

Status page you can easily check what kind of error occurred. But

let‘s start with the basic Info page.