Using Ergo in several DAW Environments

6.Using ERGO in several DAW Environments

•What if you don’t have SPDIF Out? No problema, amigo. Just plug the outputs that are currently connected to your monitors into ERGO’s LINE Ins, then plug your monitors into the “A” speakers. Voila! That’s it! ERGO’s high-performance A/D converters will meticulously transform your signal into beautifully pure digital data, ERGO will work its magic and its amazing D/A converters will deliver the sonic goods in all their room-corrected glory.

Mac users – Mac OS versions greater than 10.4 allow for “device aggregation”, that is you can make lots of different audio devices look like one big audio device. If you have a rockin’ DAW, you may want to abide by the adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” and use one of the hook ups mentioned above. However, when using a Mac, you can run ERGO in FireWire mode and it can live with your current DAW hardware. In this case, simply set the ERGO driver to be your main bus outputs (in your DAW) and plug your monitors into ERGO.

6.2Scenario 2: I have a pretty simple recording set up and want to use ERGO as my main audio interface.

If you are a 1 person operation and can live with recording 24 tracks at a time, this works quite nicely. Here’s what you do: Make sure ERGO’s audio drivers are installed and set up. If you are able to do a room measurement, then this is complete. If you are not able to do a room measurement, then see the Troubleshooting section of this manual.

PC Users: Uninstall any other ASIO driver/audio device. If it doesn’t say ERGO ASIO, but says XXXXX ASIO, get it out of your system or conflicts may arise. To do this:

•If you are using an analog mixer to route your signals, take the main Left/Right outputs of this mixer into ERGO’s LINE Ins. Tell your DAW to use ERGO Analog Inputs as your recording interface.

Whatever is playing through your mixer gets recorded to your DAW. That’s pretty simple.

•If you are using a digital mixer with SPDIF outputs, or a keyboard/preamp/toaster oven with SPDIF output, just plug this SPDIF Output into ERGO’s SPDIF Input, and set your keyboard/preamp/toaster oven to a SPDIF output sample rate between 32 kHz and 96 kHz. ERGO will figure out the sample rate coming in and set its hardware to work with your device. That too, is pretty simple.

6.3Scenario 3 – I have a pretty cool DAW setup, but I am not sure which approach is best for me. Which route should I take?

If your current audio hardware has SPDIF Out, use this. No new drivers, no compatibility issues, just pure clean room correction goodness. You’ll get the benefit of ERGO’s pristine audio performance with no degradation.

If your current audio hardware leaves a bit to be desired, use ERGO (Mac users, stop reading here) in ASIO (preferred) or WDM mode. In ASIO mode, you’ll benefit from ERGO’s low latency. In WDM mode, however, you will be able to use multiple recording interfaces under Windows.