M-AUDIO Lagoon - Manual (Page 12)

Using LAGOON with Application Software
Once the Lagoon’s hardware, driver software, and Tools Applet are properly
installed, it is ready for use with your music application software. Some of these
applications may require you to highlight or enable the Lagoon drivers within the
program, and others may have a utility that analyzes or profiles the audio cards in
your system and enables the drivers. Your software should have an audio device
driver setup page, as well as a MIDI driver setup page.
NOTE: If you have selected S/PDIF as your input or output format,
this will dedicate the software input and output devices 1 and 2
(1/2) for use with your S/PDIF signal. When selecting S/PDIF as
your input signal, choose Lagoon in 1/2 (or ADAT1 1/2 for ASIO)
as the source within your music software. Set your output port to
Lagoon out 1/2 (or ADAT1 1/2) when selecting S/PDIF as your
output format (see section 5, “Lagoon Tools Applet” for
information on making these selections).
WINDOWS MME AUDIO INPUT DEVICES: The Lagoon optical input may be
used for a total of either 2 (S/PDIF) or 8 (ADAT) input channels. Within your
software application(s), the names of the possible Lagoon audio input devices are:
Lagoon in 1/2
Lagoon in 3/4
Lagoon in 5/6
Lagoon in 7/8
The Lagoon input devices allow recording a stereo (S/PDIF) or 8-channel (ADAT)
stream directly from the optical input specified in the Lagoon Tools software (see
Lagoon Tools Applet section). Note that all of the input devices are stereo. Your
application software may break these down further to “left” and “right” mono
devices. Therefore you may see them as “Left Lagoon in 1/2, Right Lagoon in 1/2,
Left Lagoon in 3/4, Right Lagoon in 3/4,” etc., from within your recording software.
WINDOWS MME AUDIO OUTPUT DEVICES: All Lagoon optical outputs
may be used simultaneously for a total of 2 (S/PDIF) or 8 (ADAT) output
channels. Within your software application(s), the names of the Lagoon
audio output devices are:
Lagoon out 1/2
Lagoon out 3/4
Lagoon out 5/6
Lagoon out 7/8
All Lagoon output devices allow playing a stereo audio stream to the hardware
optical output. Your application software may break each of these stereo devices
down further to “left” and “right” mono devices. Therefore you may see them as
“Left WavOut 1/2 Lagoon, Right WavOut 1/2 Lagoon,” or “Left WavOut S/PDIF
Lagoon, Right WavOut S/PDIF Lagoon,” etc. from within your music software.
Other software will handle the outputs as stereo pairs, but allow you to pan audio left
or right within the pair.
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