Saffire LE

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I recently went to a music shop to buy a midi keyboard to use with my Audigy sound card.

Somehow the sales staff managed to convince me to buy a Saffire LE (they said I'd have huge latency problems).

The Saffire LE is all nice and shiney, but I dont really know how to use it.

For example, do I use the Saffire LE in conjunction with my Audigy sound card?

I ask this because I cant see how I can get the sound from my computers CD player into the Saffire?

Or should I take the Audigy card out of my computer?
 
Sounds fishy to me...

...but I haven't used the Audigy stuff before, so who knows?

The Saffire LE is a standalone firewire interface. It replaces the audigy card as your input/output device. Of course, you need a firewire port on your computer.

Pete
 
Yep, I set it all up, but I'm still not sure how I'd make use of the audio from my computers cd player.

Any ideas?
 
Okay, only shooting in the dark because I don't own one, but if it is anything like my Mackie Onyx w/FW, I disabled my internal soundcard (through the control panel in windows) and replaced the profile with the Mackie, and any sound from the computer now plays through my monitors. I assume the Saffire has speaker outs, and acts as I/O, thus sending sound to the CPU for recording and back for monitoring. Is this what you are looking for?

Pete
 
I disabled my audigy sound card in Device Manager, and yes, I've connected the Saffires out puts to my external amp - on most internal dvd drives there is a lead that you connect directly to your sound card so that you can play audio cds - I cant see how to connect this cable, or am I barking up the wrong tree?
 
The optical drive won’t connect directly to the Saffire. The drive connects to the MOBO via an IDE cable and the saffire then connects to the MOBO via firewire. You shouldn't need to open up your PC to attach a firewire audio interface, they're external devices.

You need to set the Saffire as your default playback device; Control panel -> Sounds & Audio devices.
 
What Kevin said.


Your computer should rout to and from I/O and DVD and hard drive stored audio, etc as long as you set the Saffire as your default sound device.

Pete
 
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