ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series INDEX 1. Introduction to WaMi Rack 192 Series ___________________________________ 4 2. Description of WaMi Rack 192 Series ___________________________________ 6 3. Hardware Installation ________________________________________________ 8 1. System Requirement __________________________________________ 8 2. Preparation for hardware installation ____________________________ 9 3. Installing WaMi Rack 192 Series PCI card _______________________ 10 4.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 6. Wave Lab __________________________________________________ 35 7. Giga Studio (v. 2.20.42 or higher) _______________________________ 36 8. Using Direct Wire ____________________________________________ 37 7. Specifications ______________________________________________________ 42 * All features and specifications subject to change without notice.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1. Introduction to WaMi Rack 192 Series Thank you for choosing WaMi Rack 192 Series of ESI. There are WaMi Rack 192X and WaMi Rack 192L with same out look and features except the quality of A/D & D/A converters of each product. The WaMi Rack 192 Series is a professional digital audio/midi interface different from other conventional sound cards. You will be amazed at the various and powerful functions and features of WaMi Rack 192 Series.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series Rack 192 Series is fully compatible with multi-track recording software such as Sonar/Cakewalk, Cubase, Logic and Nuendo; mastering software such as Sound Forge and Wave Lab; software sampler like GigaStudio, EXS and Halion and most of Virtual Instruments such as Reason, Reactor. 4. Multimedia / 5.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 2. Description of WaMi Rack 192 Series Here are the short descriptions of WaMi Rack 192 Series’s outlook. 1. Front Panel (1) (2) (5) (3) (4) 1) MIC/Line Input Level knob: Control the amount of input level through XLR type of each MIC input or Line input through the TRS connectors on the rear panel of WaMi Rack 192 Series.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1) MIDI I/O : WaMi Rack 192 Series provides 1in 1out 16ch MIDI I/O 2) Line Input : 4 analog Line Input ports with balanced TRS phone connector 3) Monitor out : Stereo low-Z XLR type monitor output 4) Line Out : 8 analog Line Output ports with balanced TRS phone connector 5) D-Sub connector : Connect WaMi Rack 192 Series breakout box with PCI card on the computer through this connector 3.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 3. Hardware Installation WaMi Rack 192 Series requires couple of installation procedure: ‘PCI card installation’, and ‘Driver installtion’. The ‘PCI card installation’ step includes install the WaMi Rack 192 Series PCI card into the PCI slot. ‘Driver installation’ is having the operating system in your computer recognize WaMi Rack 192 Series and building the communication channel. 1.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 2. Preparation for hardware installation WaMi Rack 192 Series PCI card and other components in the computer can be easily damaged by electrical shock. You need to use an anti-static device that can discharge the static electricity of your body to avoid potential static damage to the cards. 1. WaMi Rack 192 Series PCI card is placed into the anti static plastic pouch as it is packaged. Do not open the pouch before you install the card. 2.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 3. Installing WaMi Rack 192 Series PCI card Please look for an empty PCI slot. If you do not know which one is an actual PCI slot, please, read the following; There are 3 kinds of slots in most of recent computers. The PCI slot is most common and is used for different types of devices from the soundcard to the modem. Usually, the PCI slot is the white-colored slot. The ISA slot is used in older computers and it is marked with a black slot.
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ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 4. WaMi Rack 192 Series Software Installation After completing the installation of hardware for WaMi Rack 192 Series, you need to install its driver software to use it. The software installation is not too hard, even for computer beginners. Just follow the steps below and you will complete it without hassel. The installation steps under Windows 98SE, Windows ME, Windows 2000 and XP are a little bit different from each other. Below installation procedure is for the Windows XP.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 2. Choose ‘Search for the best driver in these locations’ and Specify the location of the driver. Insert the provided Driver CD into the CD-Rom drive and select ‘Include this location in the search’ and click ‘Browse’ to find the accurate location.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 3. On Windows 2000 and XP, there might be a message appeared that says “The software has not passed Windows Logo testing to verify its compatibility with Windows XP.” You can simply ignore it and just select ‘Continue Anyway’. Though, the message is appeared, the driver is completely tested and verified by manufacture (ESI) and safe to use it. 4. First WaMi Rack 192 Series driver will be installed.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 5. Windows will automatically install second driver. It’s same as above procedure.
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ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 6. Windows will continuously install more drivers from WaMi Rack 192 EWDM Wave2 to Wave5. And finally Windows will recognize and install ‘WaMi Rack 192 EWDM Midi’ at the end of the session. Though, several devices will be detected and installed, just follow above step 1 ~4. When your system keeps asking restart the computer, just ignores that and keep going to install.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 8. Checking your system. After rebooting, go to ‘My computer -> Console -> System -> Device Manager’. Check the devices under ‘Sound, video and game controllers’, if they are installed correctly. According to the unit, Controller name of the very bottom of Device list will be changed like “WaMi Rack 192L EWDM Controller by ESI” or “WaMi Rack 192X EWDM Controller by ESI”.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 5. WaMi Rack 192 Series Console If you complete the WaMi Rack 192 Series hardware driver installation, you need to learn about the WaMi Rack 192 Series Console. This console is what you can control your setup for the WaMi Rack 192 Series. The WaMi Rack 192 Series Console is built for easy to use. However, it could give a complicated look since there are many inputs and outputs. All input and output controls are the same.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1. Pull Down Menu The WaMi Rack 192 Series console includes a pull down menu bar that contains the configuration menus for the Console. 1. File - Exit File – Exit will close the WaMi Rack 192 Series Console window but it will not shut down the Console. You can always launch the Console by clicking system tray. icon on the 2. Config – Mouse Wheel Mouse Wheel will control the mouse wheel adjustment.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series latency depends on your situation. Generally, higher latency is fit for Multi-track recording software using multiple tracks. Process time maybe longer, but it’s stable. Lower latency is fit for software synthesizer, mastering software or Multi-track software using only few tracks. 4. Config – Factory Default This returns all the WaMi Rack 192 Series configurations to factory default setting. 5.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series As you can see, MME, Multi-MME, ASIO and GSIF indicate driver names of WaMi Rack 192 Series. Along the vertical channel indicate number, output and input ports of each driver are showed. Just click desired output number of the driver and drag it to the input of the driver you want to record the source. Next image shows all the possible combination of DirectWire configure console. Please refer to the “Using DirectWire” on Page 37 for the detailed direction of DirectWire. 2.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series as this ‘CARD SYNC. You can connect two cards using 2 pin sync cable of WaMi Rack 192 Series. 3. SAMPLE RATE -AUTO: Selecting ‘AUTO’ sets sample rate automatically detected and locked according to the sample rate of audio source. -LOCK: In this mode, you can set sample rate manually. 4. INPUT 3,4 Line Input 1,2 of WaMi Rack 192 Series are fixed as analog input channel, but Line Input 3,4 can be switched between analog and digital input channels.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 2. Input 3,4 Under the Monitor select button, this is where to control and see input level of WaMi Rack 192 Series through Input 3,4, which can be switched between analog and digital channels. You can change the input level by click and drag the fader and the number at the bottom shows you relative amount of level in dB, by clicking it you can MUTE the channel. 9.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 6. Setting in Applications WaMi Rack 192 Series is a premium professional audio/midi device designed to be used for professional audio work in a Windows environment. It has a wide range of usage from game sound to DVD surround sound. It is very easy to set up the WaMi Rack192X in the multimedia setup of the windows console. Also the WaMi Rack 192 Series can be used with digital audio software to perform hard disk recording.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1. Windows Multimedia setup The Windows Multimedia setup is required to use WaMi Rack 192 Series as the sound system for Windows multimedia applications. Go to ‘My computer-> Console -> Sounds and Audio Device Properties -> Audio tab. Select WaMi Rack 192 driver as your playback device.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 2. 5.1 channel for DVD Player application ( Ex. Power DVD ) WaMi Rack 192 Series can be used with 5.1 channel DVD software player to provide 5.1 channel analog surround sound. Since WaMi Rack 192 Series is built for professional audio, it will deliver optimal sound for your DVD player. You can configure WaMi Rack 192 Series easily to use it for surround sound. Go to ‘My computer-> Console -> Sounds and Audio Device Properties -> Audio tab.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series Caution: This is 5.1 channel surround sound route This order will be varied by your operating systems. WaMi Rack 192 Series Output 1 2 3 4 Speaker Configuration Front Left Front Right Center Sub Woofer 5 6 Surround Surround Left Right Caution: When you use 5.1 channel surround, you have to turn off ‘Input Monitor’.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 3. ASIO 2.0- Cubase, Logic, Nuendo -Cubase After launching Cubase, go to ‘System’ under ‘Audio’ menu. Select ‘ASIO 2.0 –WaMi Rack 192’ for the ASIO device and ‘WaMi Rack 192 Clock’ for the Audio clock source.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series -Nuendo After launching Nuendo, go to Device -> Device setup ->VST Multitrack. Select ‘ASIO 2.0 –WaMi Rack 192’ for the ASIO device and ‘WaMi Rack 192 Clock’ for the Audio clock source.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series -Logic After launching Logic, go to Preference -> Audio Drivers2. Check the ‘ASIO’ and select ‘ASIO 2.0 –WaMi Rack 192’. And go to ‘Option>Setting>Synchronisation Setting>MIDI’ and uncheck ‘Transmit MIDI Clock’ for better performance.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 4. Sonar/Cakewalk Before you using Sonar, you have to do several setting first. You have to set proper latency on the console of WaMi Rack 192 Series. After launching sonar, Go to ‘Option’ -> Audio and select ‘Wave Profiler’ of ‘General’ tab. Unless Sonar can’t recognize buffer of WaMi Rack 192 Series. In case of Sonar: Like a next picture, select ‘WaMi Rack 192 Multi-10ch 1~10’ for using WDM driver. Do not select 2 ch driver.
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ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 5. Sound Forge In Sound Forge, select ‘Option’ from menu bar. Select ‘Preference…’ then Wave tab. Choose ‘WaMi Rack 192 1,2’ (2ch) as Playback and Record device.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 6. Wave Lab In Wave Lab, Go to Option -> Preferences -> Audio Card. Choose ‘WaMi Rack 192 1,2’(2ch) as Playback and Record device.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 7. Giga Studio (v. 2.20.42 or higher) If you want to use WaMi Rack 192 Series with Giga Studio, you have to use Giga Studio v.2.20.42 or higher. Caution: If you want to use Giga Studio in Windows 2000 or XP, you need to use Giga Studio v.2.5. Set as below picture.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 8. Using Direct Wire By clicking this menu on WaMi Rack 192 console, DirectWire window will be appeared. DirectWire is a unique feature of E-WDM driver that make possible to transfer digital audio data within different applications using same/different drivers. As you can see, MME, Multi-MME, ASIO and GSIF indicate driver names of WaMi Rack 192 series. Along the vertical channel indicate number, output and input ports of each driver are showed.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series EX1. Recording from Winamp to WaveLab EX2. Recording from Winamp to Sonar EX3.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series EX4. Recording from Sonar to Cubase or Vice versa EX5. Recording from Power DVD 5.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series EX6. Recording from Power DVD 5.1 to Cubase EX7.
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ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 7. Specifications 1. Analog Input Specification 1) Type : 4 channel analog line input - 1/4" TRS Phone jack (X4) - Balanced XLR Connector (X4) 2) Level : +4dBu balanced, +4dBu Nominal, +22.5dBu Max (Gain +0dB) 3) Gain Adjustment : +0dB ~ +20dB 4) Impedance : 10K ohm 2. Analog Output Specification 1) Type : 8 Channel analog line output - 1/4" TRS Phone jack (X8) - Balanced XLR Connector (X2) 2) Level : +4dBu balanced, +4dBu Nominal, +22.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1. Analog Input Specification 1) Type : 4 Channel analog input * 4 Unbalanced 1/4" TRS Phone Jack(Line in) * 4 Balanced XLR Connector(Line in, Mic in) 2) Level : * +4dBu UnBalanced, +4dBu Nominal, +17dBu Max (Gain +0dB) * +4dBu Balanced, +4dBu Nominal, +22.5dBu Max (Gain +0dB) 3) Gain Adjustment : +0dB ~ +20dB 4) Impedance : 10K Ohm 2.
ESI WaMi Rack 192 Series 1) Type : High perfomance SIGMA-DELTA ADC 2) Dynamic Range (S/N) : 100 dB A-Weighted (Typical) 3) Frequency Response : 20 ~ 22.5KHz (@ fs=48kHz) 4) Sample Rate Supports : Up to 96KHz 5) Resolution : 24 Bits 6) Interchannel Gain Mismatch : 0.5dB 7. D/A Converter Specification 1) Type : High perfomance SIGMA-DELTA DAC 2) Dynamic Range (S/N) : 104dB A-Weighted (Typical) 3) Frequency Response : 20 ~ 22.
