MUTEC MC-1.2 - Manual (Page 12)

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USB Driver Installation & Windows Settings
MUTEC USB Audio Class 2.0 Driver for Windows
General Description
When connecting your MC-1.2 to a Windows computer, you have to install the USB Audio Class 2.0 Driver for Windows availa-
ble on our website. This must be carried out regardless of the sampling rates of the transfered audio streams.
Attention
Install the driver first before connecting the MC-1.2 to your Windows computer!
No driver installation is necessary when using the MC-1.2 with Apple Macintosh computers.
The following MS Windows operating systems are supported:
Windows 8.1 at 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64)
Windows 8 at 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64)
Windows 7 at 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64)
Windows Vista at 32 bit (x86) and 64 bit (x64)
Windows XP at 32 bit (x86) only
The MUTEC USB Audio Class 2.0 Driver for Windows is designed for professional use as well as audiophile High-End applica-
tions and thus compatible to most of the well-known software music players. It supports devices which are compliant to the
USB Audio Class 1.0 or USB Audio Class 2.0 device specifications. The driver provides an ASIO 2.2 compliant software interface
and interacts with Windows as a standard WDM/DirectX compatible sound device. Optimized for low latency and low CPU
load, the driver implements a transparent, bit-perfect playback and recording data path.
General Features
Supports Audio Class 1.0 and Audio Class 2.0 devices
Supported standard sampling rates (depending on device capabilities):
Class 1.0: 44.1 kHz, 48.0 kHz
Class 2.0: 44.1 kHz, 48.0 kHz, 88.2 kHz, 96.0 kHz, 176.4 kHz, 192.0 kHz
Supports USB Type I formats and sampling resolutions:
PCM 16 bit, PCM 24 bit, PCM 32 bit, Float 32 bit
ASIO Features
ASIO 2.2 compliant driver DLL
Supported type 1formats and sampling resolutions: PCM 24 bit, PCM 32 bit, Float 32 bit (depending on device capabilities)
Bit-perfect playback and recording through ASIO
Playback mix, simultaneous ASIO and WDM playback
Supports 32bit and 64bit ASIO host applications
Multi-client support (multiple ASIO applications in parallel)
Configuration of ASIO buffer depth via driver control panel
WDM/DirectX Features
Suported Windows sound interfaces: MME, DirectSound, WASAPI
Stereo and multi-channel playback and recording sound devices (depending on device capabilities)
Flexible sound device configuration, for example:
Bit-perfect playback and recording through WASAPI
Volume and mute control through Windows standard GUI (depending on device capabilities)
Jack sensing (depending on device capabilities)
Supports PCM 16 bit, 24 bit and 32 bit sampling resolutions (depending on device capabilities)