Stanton SCS.1d CD Player User Manual


 
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6. Troubleshooting
1. IhaveboththeSCS.1mandSCS.1d,andwhenItrytopowerthemupnothinghappens.Whatiswrong?
Youprobablyhavethepowersuppliesforeachcontrollerswapped.Ifyouplugthewrongpowercordinto
a unit, it won’t power up. Thepower cable for the SCS.1m supplies 12V, and the one for the SC
S.1d
supplies24V.Youcanalsotellwhichiswhichbythecolorcoding.Forexample,grayfortheSCS.1mand
bluefortheSCS.1d.
2. CanIusetheFireWirecablealonetopowertheSCS.1controllers?
No,the SCS.1controllers requireexternalpower. Weintentionally wantedpower tobe suppliedto
guaranteethatconsistentperformanceisachievableasnotallbuspowerontheFireWireportisstable
acrossmachines.
3. Icannotfindthedriverformycontroller.
InWindows,thedriverinstalleris combined intothe SCS.1DaRouter software.InOSX,theSCS.1m
controllers is Core Audio compliant and doesn’t need a driver, however both the SCS.1d and SCS.1m
requireDaRoutertotranslatetheircontroldataintoMIDI.Asstatedintheinstallationproce
dure,make
sure
youdownloadthelatestdriverfromtheStantonwebsite.
4. Mycomputerdoesnothavea6pinFireWireportonit.
Usethe6to4pinadapterincludedinthepackaging.
5. Mycomputerdoesn’thaveaFireWireadapteratall.
Inmostcases,aFireWireinterfacecanbeeasilyaddedtoacomputer.Forlaptops,youneedtolookfor
eitheraPCMCIAorExpressCardbasedadapter(whichonetousedependsonthecardslotyourcomputer
is equipped with). For des
ktops, you should use an addin PCI FireWire
card. Please do not use a
USBtoFireWireadaptercablebecauseitwillseverelydegradeperformance.Checktheappendixofthis
manualforsuggestionsonchoosingaFireWirecard.
6. Iamgettingclickandpopsinmyaudio.
Thiscanbemanythings.Doyouhearnoiseevenwhenthere’snosoftwareplayback?Ifso,thenthecause
is likely a ground loop (especially if it goes away when running the computer on battery power).
Ifnot,doesincreasingthebufferinginth
edrivermaketheproblemgoaway?Ifso,thenitcouldbean
issuewithyoursystemperfor
mance.ForOStweaks,pleasereadtheAppendixOptimizingComputersfor
1394.
If neither of the previous options seems to fix the issue, let’s try a couple of more alternatives.
DoyouhavemultipleFireWiredevicescon
nected?Ifso,tryusingju
sttheSCS.1m.Ifthataddressesyour
issue,thentryreorderingthedevicesintheFireWirechain.YoushouldalwayshavetheSCS.1controllers
“closest”tothecomputerandplugotherdevices(drives,etc)intothem(orrunyourdr
iveson aseparate
portaltogeth
er).Ifyou’rerunningWindowsXP,youmightneedtheSidSpeedfixoutlinedintheappendix
ofthismanual.
TocontactTechSupport,pleasecallusat+1954.316.1500andselecttheSCS.1option.