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ok ive just recieved a delta 1010lt card and installed it everything i got a compaq windows xp 2002 home edition 32bit desktop pc, i read the delta manuel and I'm totally lost on patchbay and routing on the count that I'm a newbie to this stuff.i have logitech x-240 that i need to connect for playback,so how do i do that if my jack is a 3.5mm how do i connect to rca do they have converters for that type of stuff?. ok and my second question if i do find a way to connect my speakers to what jacks ins,or outs? and how do i route them? i just want to get started on this please someone help me thk u?

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TheJackAttack Mon, 03/22/2010 - 23:46

Yes there are adapters for 3.5mm(1/8") TRS to dual RCA phono plugs (the red and white). I don't own this but I would think the groups of cables would be numbered or labeled in some fashion. I'd connect the output device to the RCA plugs market 1 & 2. The routing for the whole shebang will be found by double clicking the M-Audio icon in the system tray (lower right hand corner of the screen).

recordjunkiehtx Tue, 03/23/2010 - 08:43

ok thx, but how do i connect it does white go to white red to red? and how do i route it? im getting so confused because i have a spliter connected to the back of the logitech speakers that i can connect rca's to,but can they be any rca's or do they have to be audio rca's or are they all the same? because i found some rca cables and connected them white2white red2red on outs 1 and 2 and still no sound i mean when i play music the volume meter detects it but no sound.maybe my routings are wrong i dont know

thx for help an sorry
for the stupid newbie questions.

TheJackAttack Tue, 03/23/2010 - 08:52

Yes, connect white to white and red to red. You can use any pair of them but each one is wired to a different output of the Delta-1010LT as Outputs 1&2, 3&4, etc.

There are only audio RCA plugs on that device. The two spdif plugs if there are any are just exactly the same but they are connected to digital send/receive so you won't get any speaker stuff out of those. You want a red and white pair of RCA output (gozouta) plugs from the Delta to gozinta the speaker adapter cable.

S/Pdif RCA plugs are also normally orange colored.
Yellow RCA plugs are normally digital composite video.
Red is customarily right side analog audio.
White is customarily left side analog audio.

Remember, all wiring breaks down ultimately to gozouta and gozinta. No matter how complex the PA or recording system.

recordjunkiehtx Tue, 03/23/2010 - 12:54

help!!!!!!!!!

ok well now i got the speaker stuff down,i think.cuz i could here play back of music,ive got my speakers plugged into 1/2 outs on the delta, and on the patchbay/router i have to select wav out 1/2 to here music playback and thats fine,but now when i plug in my mic i only here it on the left side of my speaker and i have to select {h/w {ins}1/2} in the patchbay/router to hear my voice so how can i make it to where i can hear my voice an the music playback at the same time so i could start my recordings? ughhh this is so confusing thx for your time.

heres what im working with: ive got a windows xp compaq presario home edition 32bit 2002 desktop
Magix Studio 10 deluxe software
radioshack dynamic mic
logitech speakers
casio wK-110 keyboard

TheJackAttack Tue, 03/23/2010 - 13:32

recordjunkiehtx, post: 344494 wrote: snip....... and on the patchbay/router i have to select wav out 1/2 to here music playback and thats fine,but now when i plug in my mic i only here it on the left side of my speaker and i have to select {h/w {ins}1/2} in the patchbay/router to hear my voice so how can i make it to where i can hear my voice an the music playback at the same time so i could start my recordings? ......snip

Ok first the mic question. In your patchbay ASIO GUI (graphical user interface) you have figured out how to select the outputs. You are going to do similar to the microphone input. Currently it is "panned" hard left by default. Find the section where the pan is assigned and change that to <0> as opposed to <-100>. You will also be able to route where the mic channel goes to which could be the Outputs 1/2 or Headphones or whatever options are available.

recordjunkiehtx Tue, 03/23/2010 - 15:47

ok i got it thx for the help,but i still have a problem with the my vocal on oneside,the way i got my microphone connected is threw a xlr cable, and to the xlr on the delta which comes with two xlr inputs when i switch the xlr to the other one voice is on the left and when i switch to the right its on the right. do i need a xlr splitter or somthing? thxs

TheJackAttack Tue, 03/23/2010 - 16:28

You don't need a splitter. Somewhere in your GUI there is a pan setting and/or a mono 'button'. Right now one of two things is happening. 1) The pan is set to -100 or hard left or 2) The mic channel itself is set to ONLY send to output 1. You need to find these settings.

Each mixer input channel has its own level fader and may be panned anywhere in the left/right stereo field. Each input also has its own peak meter. The peak meters indicate the incoming "pre-fader" levels of the incoming audio and are therefore not affected by the fader settings. However, the input faders do affect the levels of the signals exiting the mixer and you will see the affect of the input faders on the output "Master Volume" peak meters.

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PAN: Each mixer input may be individually panned anywhere in the stereo output mix. A pan control is positioned directly under each input channel peak meter and has the appearance of a small vertical pointer. To make a coarse adjustment, click on the pan control with your mouse and drag it to the desired position. For finer adjustment (in 1% increments), you may click on the pan control to make it active, and then use the left/right or up/down cursor keys on your computer keyboard. Either way, while the pan setting is being adjusted, its value will appear numerically in the Master Volume’s status box (below the Master Volume Stereo Gang control) as a percentage from left pan to right pan: -100% represents far left, +100% represents far right, and 0% represents the center.

These instructions are on Pg 21 of the manual. Take this next statement with good humor.

RTFM

I've already given these guidelines once.