Gina 20-bit Multitrack Digital Audio Recorder Owners Manual
The Reporter is designed to provide you with an analysis of your computer system’s audio capabilities and its ability to work successfully with Gina. The program looks at such things as your BIOS version, your interrupt assignments, and your hard disk’s transfer rate. The Reporter will perform a limited series of compatibility tests. It cannot guarantee that your system will work with Gina. The only way to be sure is to install the card in your system and see if it works. Please note that we only support Intel CPUs and motherboards with an Intel chipset. Your system may or may not work with other CPUs or chipsets.
Be sure to run the program before attempting to install Gina as it can help you avoid installation problems down the road. To run the Reporter, simply double-click on Install Reporter icon in the Reporter directory of the Gina CD-ROM. This will install the program onto your hard disk. The Reporter will then show up under the Start menu, Programs, Echo Audio Utilities. Select The Echo Reporter to launch the program.
Once the program launches, you’ll see the Hard Disk Performance test screen. Press the Proceed button to initiate the disk speed test. This test will tell you if your hard disk is fast enough to support multitrack digital audio and, if so, approximately how many tracks of record and playback you’ll be able to achieve.
After the test is completed you’ll see a results screen. Many of the parameters on the screen are interactive; you can change them to see how your disk performs under different conditions.
For example, in the upper right corner of the screen you can see how large your hard disk is and how many minutes of recording time it will provide for a mono track recorded at 44.1kHz with 16-bit resolution. (Times are expressed in Hours: Minutes: Seconds.) Change the Number of Tracks field to “2” and you’ll see the maximum length available for a stereo track. Change the field to “8” and you’ll see the maximum length you’ll have for an eight-track opus. Naturally, these multitrack readouts presume uninterrupted, linear tracks. Your music is likely to contain numerous snippets of data (e.g., the background vocals will only appear at specific moments in time, not continuously throughout the whole tune), so, generally speaking, you’ll be able to create longer pieces than the readout indicates.
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