Mixer control panel(Windows)
There are two different audio drivers including "WDM" (Windows Driver Model) and "ASIO"
(Audio Stream Input and Output) within the ICON Pro Audio audio interface driver. WDM
is widely used for daily software such as media player and ASIO is mainly used for most
trecording software such as Logic Pro. The advantage of ASIO is that it has much lower
latency than WDM and this is very important when you are doing recording with load.
Actually, most of the daily software does not support ASIO drivers and uses WDM only. In
this case you just simply need to use the HW channel (Hardware channels). Below please
find some explanations on different terminology for each channel type.
1. HW IN (Hardware Channel IN)
This means the hardware input channels including the microphones or internal input
channels
2. HW Out (Hardware Channel OUT)
This means the hardware output channels including the headphone or line out
output channels
3. VC Out (Virtual Channel OUT)
This only exists on ASIO driver and it is a virtual channel that's output signal goes to
ASIO VC IN
4. VC In (Virtual Channel IN)
This only exists on ASIO driver and it is a virtual channel that's input signal is
coming from ASIO VC Out
5. LoopBack (LoopBack Channel)
ASIO internal loopback channel (e.g. ASIO VC Out signal goes to ASIO VC IN)
On the mixer control panel, there are four different types of ASIO channels that you can
manipulate.
1. USolo Hardware channels (HW In 1/2 & HW Out 1/2)
These are the hardware input and output channels on USolo .
2. USolo Virtual channels (VC In 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6), (VC Out 1/2, 3/4
and 5/6)
These are the input and output virtual channels that relate to the WDM.
For example: WDM Out 1/2 linked to VC In1/2
3. USolo Loopback channels (LB 1/2, 3/4 and 5/6)
These are the ASIO loop-back channels.
VC Out1/2 linked to WDM In1/2
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