•Enable WDM Audio – check box. Allows the WDM part of the driver to be disabled and only leave ASIO running. This may improve responsiveness of your computer.
•WDM Input Configuration – This pull down menu specifies how many channels of audio are available to the WDM driver.
•Assign WDM Channels – These two buttons bring up a dialog box that allows the WDM driver input or output channels to be freely assigned across the available IF- FW/DM MKII channels.
•WDM Output Configuration – This pull down menu specifies how many channels of audio are available to the WDM driver.
Other
Below the 3 panels, the Windows driver version number is also displayed.
WDM Configurations
(Note) Audio playback must be stopped and all audio apps must be closed before changing this setting, as the driver will unlock briefly when it changes.
The available WDM configurations are:
•Direct Inputs / Direct Outputs – In this mode all of the IF- FW/DM MKII channels are available in pairs in Kernel Streaming Mode. Sonar is an example of a DAW application that can make use of this mode.
•Speaker Mono – only a single channel of audio is available to WDM.
•Speaker Stereo – a pair of channels of audio is available to WDM.
•Speaker Quad – 4 channels
•Speaker Surround – 4 channels
•Speaker 5.1 – 6 channels
•Speaker 7.1 Home – 8 channels
•Speaker 7.1 Wide – 8 channels
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