M-Audio Flying Cow [8/20] Installation and typical setup

Installation and Typical Setup

Your Flying Cow box should contain this manual, a “wallwart”

power transformer (U.S. customers only) and the Flying Cow

unit itself. Please save all packing materials in case you should

ever need to ship the unit.

The Flying Cow may be operated on any flat surface or it may be

installed in a standard 19” rack equipment tray. For installation

in a 19” rack tray you will first need to remove the four rubber

feet from the unit. Next, left or right justify the Flying Cow in

the rack tray. Lastly, tighten the included rack-mount screw,

through the rack tray hole, into the single threaded hole on the

bottom of the Flying Cow chassis.

Plug in the power supply. With the Flying Cow’s power turned

off, make your connections to any analog or digital cables you

will be using. Next, power up the Flying Cow by pressing the

Power button on the front panel.

IMPORTANT: Before powering up the Flying Cow, turn down

any amplifiers (or mixers) connected to the Flying Cow’s outputs.

Since it takes several milliseconds for the Flying Cow to acquire

and lock onto an incoming digital signal, there may be a slight

“pop” sound while powering up.

A typical configuration in which a Flying Cow would be used

includes a Flying Cow, a PC based digital I/O card, a mixer and

an amplifier/sound system (see Typical Setup figure). Such a

configuration could be setup as follows: 1.) the unbalanced stereo

audio out of the mixer goes to the 1/4” audio inputs on the

Flying Cow, 2.) the S/PDIF out of the digital audio card goes to

the S/PDIF In on the Flying Cow, 3.) the S/PDIF in of the digital

audio card goes to the S/PDIF Out on the Flying Cow, 4.) the

unbalanced Analog Out on the Flying Cow goes to a line level

audio in on the amplifier/sound system.