M-Audio Lagoon [4/28] Features

Introduction

Congratulations on your purchase of a LAGOON PCI Digital Audio Card! With this card,

high-quality digital audio processing becomes possible with your PC. The card offers

optical digital I/O and an ADAT Sync connector (standard Alesis 9-pin DB connector).

The optical digital I/Os may be software-configured to S/PDIF or ADAT mode while

supporting Full Duplex for simultaneous record and playback (e.g. simultaneous

recording from ADAT and playing back over S/PDIF is possible) The S/PDIF mode

supports several sample rates and sample resolutions up to 24 Bit at 96 kHz. Using ADAT,

you may record and play back simultaneously 8 channels of digital audio at up to 51 kHz

and 24 Bit. Using the ADAT Sync, synchronization to your ADAT recorder is easy. If this

is not needed, this connector can alternately be used as a MIDI In/Out interface by simply

plugging in the included MIDI adapter cable.

Beyond these versatile interfacing possibilities the Motorola 56301 DSP used on this card

offers 80 MIPS of DSP computing power. Combined with 768 kBytes of fast EDO

DRAM, a variety of audio effects may be run on this system with simultaneous digital I/O

operation.

Features

Low profile PCI card (requires PCI BIOS version 2.1).

Operates in Full Duplex for simultaneous record and playback.

Onboard Motorola 56301 running at 80 MHz, delivering 80 MIPS computing power.

Onboard 768 kByte fast EDO-DRAM to ensure reliable audio streaming and effects.

Onboard DSP supports downloadable audio effects and processing.

1 Toslink Optical In and 1 Toslink Optical Out supports the following I/O modes:

• ADAT 8-Channel Optical

All ADAT word widths up to 24 bit

ADAT sample rates from 39 kHz to 51 kHz

• S/PDIF Optical

All word widths up to 24 bit

Sample rates: 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2, 96 kHz

Consumer or Professional mode

• Mixed mode: S/PDIF In and ADAT Out or ADAT In and S/PDIF Out

ADAT Sync In or MIDI Options via 9-pin DB connector supports:

•ADAT Sync In using standard Alesis ADAT Sync cables.

•1 In and 1 Out MIDI Interface

Uses supplied break out cable to connect to MIDI devices.

Allows for MTC or MIDI clock synchronization through user application software.

Included Drivers:

•Windows 95/98 MME driver

Supports Mono, Stereo, 8-channel and MIDI devices

•Windows 95/98 ASIO driver