Quick Start Guide

Within the Delta 1010LT’s PCI chip is a hardware digital mixer. Controlled by the Delta Control Panel software, it may handle all of your mixdown needs, give you extra control of all left, right and stereo levels plus pans, solos, and mutes, or simply give you an alternate or headphone mix.

There may not be any instant tips or tricks for understanding and using an audio interface that is as versatile as the Delta 1010LT. However, we may be able to include some “straight talk” to help light the way.

On the PC: Following the installation procedures for both the Delta hardware and software will enable the 1010LT for use in Windows. The Delta 1010LT will become your Windows sound card simply by going to My Computer Control Panel Multimedia, and changing Audio settings to one of the Delta stereo pairs. In this way, the Delta card will be the default audio device for your Windows and other media players.

On the Mac: Following the installation procedures for both the Delta hardware and software will enable the 1010LT to be configured for use in a music program that utilizes the ASIO drivers supplied with the Delta. Additionally, the Delta 1010LT can be used in the Apple Sound Manager for your system sounds or in a music/recording program that directs itself to the Sound Manager. The Delta 1010LT will become your Macintosh’s audio device simply by going to the Apple menu Control Panel Sound, and changing audio settings from “built-in” to the Delta. In this way, the Delta card will be the default audio device for your Apple applets and a variety of media players. If you wish only to use the Delta with an ASIO compliant music program, leave this setting on “built-in.”

You will, however, need a music/recording software application to take full advantage of the Delta 1010LT as a production tool, and most likely that software will need to analyze and configure the Delta 1010LT--this usually occurs when first launching the program after the Delta 1010LT has been installed. On the PC, the 1010LT is also capable of playing an encoded surround sound signal from the S/PDIF output using some of the DVD player applications that exist on the market. This usually takes some audio output configuration within the player.

The Delta Control Panel controls many of the card’s settings, and includes controls for the digital mixer that is contained on the Delta card. While all of those settings may seem daunting at first, it may help to know that by using only the default settings, the card is ready to playback audio files from your computer (the control panel is set to play audio outputs from software). This can be done from a media player or from your music application, provided the outputs are set to a Delta output port and the software and card are properly configured.

You will be able to hear the Delta inputs under certain conditions. Using a recording program that utilizes the ASIO or EASI drivers with the Delta 1010LT, or (in Windows) using the Windows WDM drivers with programs that take full advantage of them, will allow you to monitor the Delta inputs through the program, and thereby continue to use the default settings in the Delta Control Panel (as mentioned, these are audio outputs from software). When using the Delta card and monitoring in this fashion, there is always some degree of latency, or delay between the the actual input signal and the monitoring of that input signal.