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Welcome, Getting started – FXpansion DR-008 User Manual

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Welcome.

Thank you for purchasing the DR-008 Advanced Rhythm Production

Workstation from FXpansion Audio. DR-008 is a VST2.0 VST Instrument

and Dxi DirectX Instrument compatible with all known VST2 and Dxi

host applications, including:-

Steinberg Cubase VST 3.7x and 5.x

Steinberg Cubasis VST

Steinberg Nuendo 1.5+

Emagic Logic Audio series v4.5+

Cakewalk SONAR and Home Studio 2002

ImageLine Fruity Loops 3.x

Sonic Syndicate Orion Pro

It is fully compatible with all current versions of Windows:- 95, 98, 98SE,

ME, NT4, 2000 and XP.

This manual is divided in to three sections:-

Getting Started, which explains the basics of installing your DR-008

and navigating around it;

In Use, which explains the core functionality in detail; and Modules,

which shows you how to operate each of the individual sound generator

modules supplied with DR-008.

Getting Started

2.1 Installing

Insert the DR-008 CD into the CD drive. Use the Windows Explorer

to open the CD and start the setup program by double clicking on

DR008.exe. The setup program will take you through the installation

procedure installing DR-008. You will be presented with two

installation types - the Dxi version or the VSTi version. Select

the version compatible with your host application.