Steinberg VSL2020 Audio Card User Manual

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9.2 Confi guring the VSL 2020
The control panel provides two menus called File and Confi g. The File menu is used to exit the 
control panel. The Confi g menu provides a number of options for the confi guration of your card. 
The following sections describe the confi guration options.
9.2.1 Mouse Wheel
The fi rst submenu is called Mouse Wheel. If you are using a wheel mouse, you can use the 
options in this submenu to set the “resolution” of the wheel action, i.e. how far the sliders move 
when...

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9.2.5 Hardware Confi guration
This option opens the dialog for hardware confi guration.
Internal Clock can be set to 32, 44.1, 48, 64, 88.2 or 96 kHz. External Clock determines from 
which source you receive a clock signal. The card then functions as a clock slave to an external 
clock device. Sources could be ADAT 1 or ADAT 2 or S/PDIF and Extra (word clock).
When you activate the S/MUX option, the sample rate on the ADAT ports is increased to 96 kHz. 
Since ADAT streams are normally limited...

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9.2.6 Analog Mixer 
The Analog Mixer option opens a dialog where you can set the output level and the input level of 
the analog connectors.  

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10. Working with ASIO 2.0
Once you have successfully installed the VSL 2020 card, open your host application (e.g. Cubase 
or Nuendo), open the Devices menu and choose the Device Setup option. In the Devices list, 
select VST Multitrack. On the Setup tab, select the ASIO 2.0-VSL 2020 driver from the ASIO Driver 
pop-up. Click the Control Panel button to open the card control panel if you want to make your 
settings from within your host application.  

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11. Working with V-STACK
You can use the VSL 2020 card with any VST host application that supports ASIO 2.0, e.g. Cubase 
or Nuendo. The V-ST
ACK software supplied with your card is also a ASIO 2.0 compatible VST 
host application, and can be used in combination with another computer running Cubase or 
Nuendo.
With V-ST
ACK you can set up a VST System Link network synchronized via the ASIO 2.0 
protocol. Just like Cubase or Nuendo, V-ST
ACK provides the Device Setup dialog where you can...

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Some things to check and observe when using V-STACK
- The fi rst and most important step is to link each computer so that each shows in the list of 
connected computers without errors. Please make sure that everything is properly locked and 
clock synced.
- You need to get the audio clock straight, one (!) machine must be clock master, all others must 
be properly confi gured for clock slave operation! This is essential for smooth operation of the 
network!
- All machines with loaded projects...

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12. Compliance and copyright statements
CE
This device has been tested and found to comply with the EN55022 Class A:1998+A1:2001 and 
EN55024:1998 norms for digital devices, according to the European Council directive on the 
counterpart laws in the member states relating to electromagnetic compatibility (EMVG).
FCC
This device has been tested and found to comply with the requirements listed in FCC Regulations, 
part 15 class “A“ digital device. FCC compliance statement: Tested to comply...

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13. Table of contents
1.  Introduction.....................................................................................................................2
2.      Package contents..........................................................................................................3
3.         System requirements.....................................................................................................3
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