M-Audio NRV10 User Manual - About The Nrv10

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About the NRV10

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he NRV10 combines the best of analog and digital, offering you a great sounding, highly versatile analog mixer and a 

professional quality FireWire digital audio interface for your computer-based DAW, integrated into a single, compact unit.

The NRV10 is the perfect front end for your project studio or live recording setup, giving you eight analog line inputs and five XLR 

microphone inputs with switchable phantom power, as well as two mono aux sends and two stereo aux returns. Its mixer section 

offers four mono and two stereo input channels, each with three-band EQ, pan, monitor and FX sends. Its integrated DSP section 

gives you a wide range of great sounding digital effects to add to your mix, including reverbs, delays, chorus, flange and more, all 

accessible via two front panel rotary switches. The NRV10’s rear panel gives you balanced or unbalanced analog mix outputs on 

XLR and 1/4 inch TRS connectors, as well as a pair of independent control room outputs. And the NRV10’s headphone output can 

easily switch to monitor your main mix, monitor mix or cue mix for ultimate flexibility.

The NRV10 is also an ideal front end for your computer-based Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), giving you a professional quality 

high-resolution FireWire interface with great sounding analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters that can stream up to ten 

channels of audio into your DAW, as well as bring up to ten channels from your DAW into the NRV10’s input channels. A single 

IEEE 1394 cable connects the NRV10 to your computer’s FireWire port. (If your PC is not equipped with a native FireWire port, 

you may purchase a FireWire PCI card at any computer electronics retailer.)*

*NOTE: Please check the Product Support page at www.m-audio.com for a list of compatible 1394A PCI and PCMCIA adapters.

The NRV10’s easy-to-use software control panel gives you instant monitoring levels for its inputs and outputs, as well as the ability 

to change buffer sizes and control latency (Windows only*). 

Also included with the NRV10 is the NRV10 interFX software application, which allows you to use your computer with the NRV10 

as a real-time effects processor. Refer to the electronic user guide found in the application’s help menu for more information on 

this software.

IMPORTANT: We’ve enclosed two high-quality FireWire cables with your NRV10—a 

six-pin-to-six-pin cable and a six-pin-to-four-pin cable. Determine whether your 

computer is equipped with a six-pin or four-pin interface and choose the appropriate 

cable for connecting the NRV10 to your computer.  We strongly suggest you use one of 

the enclosed cables (or one of equal quality) for optimum audio performance. Also note 

that the NRV10 requires the included external power adapter; it will not function using 

only FireWire bus power.

NOTE: Some computer manufacturers may use a different nomenclature to refer to their 

FireWire connections, such as Sony’s “iLink,” or simply “1394.”