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 Windy 6 FireWire audio interface review

 By: Steven ROBSCIX Wall Edited by Hilbert Hagedoorn | Published: June 18, 2009  



Driver Installation

The Windy 6 drivers installed without a hitch and on the first attempt and offered no trouble whatsoever during installation. Taking the revision number into account you see these drivers are still very young being version 1.00.6.
The Windy 6 driver suite is very light and features all options laid out in an easy to use driver pane configuration. For those new to recording hardware, this interface is not a consumer based audio devices so such setting seen on gaming cards will not be present on this interface. Simple, direct and easy configuration is usually the name of the game with recording drivers.

Windy 6

The first two faders allow switching between Line input and instrument input. You can easily mute either channel or control the fader level individually or in "linked" mode which the levels are set equally.

On the far right we can see fader controls for the S/PDIF digital Input and output and fader controls for remaining I/O which is line level.
The S/Pdif monitoring setting isn't seen all that much as a separate Digital to Analog Converter (DAC) is required to monitor the signal output. This setting is a welcomed addition to the master mixer.

This monitor setting is especially handy when finding fault in a digital only system such as when using digital reference monitors.

There is also easy access to sample rate controls for rates from 44.1K to 192K and setting for the clock source which can be sync'd through the PC, the device or the S/PDIF input. This clock setting is helpful when syncing up with other gear.

Windy 6

The second pane of the driver holds all the controls for controlling your buffer settings. Included settings for Stream buffer, ASIO buffer and WDM buffer settings. Having access to these buffer controls is very handy and allows you to optimize these buffers for best performance for streams and Software/Midi synthesizer use and recording applications.
This audio interface is rather new so the drivers are also very "young" given this general layout all the features needed are right at your fingertips making the drivers extremely functional.



 


 

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