Roland Vm-3100 Pro Mixer And Mac, Getting it to work right. Options

[Running Wolf]

Hello! First time poster.

I've got a roland VM-3100pro digital mixer that came with the RCP-1 card. All is installed, but I've got a small problem. Any time I use the ASIO compliant programs on my system, they all record at a very low level.

What I mean is that I get nearly no response. I'll set my source on the mixer at, say -6. But the result is -24 or so in the software.

What's up with this? I've searched the manuals to no avail. Is it the mixer? Is the the RCP card? Is it the drivers on the Mac?

I'm about to "gasp" buy a PC to make the thing work!

Help!

[damann]

most pro/semi pro equipment is switchable between -10(hifi) or +4(pro) levels.the equipment you use has to be set to one or the other of these standards in order to maintain a level that is understood by each piece of equipment as being "the same".
if you send a signal from a piece of equipment set to -10 to another piece of equipment set to +4, instead of agreeing that the signal is, shall we say 0vu, the second piece of equipment will actually register the signal as being -14vu!
the point i'm not really managing to make here is that your mixer is maybe sending a low-level signal because it's set to a domestic rather than pro output level!
keep posting, i'm sure we can sort this out...