M-Audio DMAN [5/52] About the dman

Quick Start Guide

Here's a list of the things you will need to do to get started:

1. Physically install the card in your computer.

(Hardware Installation)

(DMAN Typical Setup)

2. Install drivers and support software.

(Windows 3.1x Software)

(Windows 95 Software)

(DOS Software)

3. If things aren't working, run the diagnostic software.

(DMAN Diagnostics Utility)

(Troubleshooting)

(DOS Troubleshooting)

4. Configure your digital recording software.

(see your software manual)

About the DMAN

The DMAN is a full-featured, yet low-cost digital audio card with

a built-in MPU401 interface and a header for an optional

wavetable synthesis daughterboard. The DMAN features 16-bit

stereo sampling at various frequencies from 5.53 to 48 kHz, full-

duplex digital audio, 64 times oversampled D/A and A/D

converters, and an onboard analog mixer.

The DMAN uses the world’s first Plug-and-Play chip set for

digital audio and includes a subset of the Windows Sound

System 2.0 architecture. Also, the Windows ’95 driver software

fully supports DirectSound.

For those of you who don’t speak digital audio tech (yet), we’ll

define some terms here:

A/D and D/A converters: A/D stands for Analog to Digital and

D/A means Digital to Analog. The higher the bit rate and the

greater the oversampling rate, the better the audio

reproduction. DMAN specifications are equivalent to those of

an audio CD.