Tascam US-144 User Manual

Tascam

TASCAM US-144

Contents

1 Introduction

Overview ..................................... 5
Features ....................................... 5

What is in the package .................. 5
Conventions used in this manual .... 6

2 Parts of the US-144

Top panel ..................................... 7
Rear panel ................................... 8
Front panel .................................. 9

3 Installation

System requirements ............... 10

Windows XP ................................. 10
Mac OS X ....................................... 10

Installing the drivers ................ 11

Installing the drivers

for Windows XP ........................11

Installing the drivers

for Mac OS X ............................ 12

Installing Cubase LE .................. 12
Settings on your computer ...... 12

4 Control panel settings

Overview ................................... 13
Driver settings .......................... 13

Audio Performance ...................... 13
Sample Clock Source .................... 13
Digital Output Format ................. 14

5 Connections

USB connections ....................... 15
Audio connections .................... 15
MIDI connections ...................... 17

6 Recording with Cubase LE

Input setting ............................. 18
Recording .................................. 19
Mixdown ................................... 20

7 Troubleshooting ............. 21
8 MIDI Implementation

Chart .................................. 23
9 Specifications and

performance

Audio specifications ................. 24
Audio performance .................. 25
Other characteristics ................ 25
Physical characteristics ............. 26
Dimensions ................................ 26