B4 II – III
Table Of Contents
About the Native Instruments B4 ......................................................... 5
Introduction .................................................................................... 5
Installation under Windows XP ............................................................ 7
Software Installation ........................................................................ 7
VST plug-in Installation .................................................................... 7
DXi 2 plug-in Setup ......................................................................... 8
RTAS plug-in installation .................................................................. 8
Installation under MacOS X ................................................................. 8
Installing B4 II in OS X ................................................................... 8
MacOS Audio Unit plug-in Installation ............................................... 9
RTAS plug-in installation .................................................................. 9
Product Authorization ......................................................................... 9
What is the Product Authorization? .................................................... 9
Conducting the Product Authorization ...............................................11
Method A: B4 II computer has direct access to the internet ................11
Method B: Internet Connection on another computer ..........................13
Method C: No Internet Connection available ......................................15
Registration support .......................................................................17
Audio Interfaces ...............................................................................18
Standalone Application ...................................................................18
More About Latency ...................................................................... 20
B4 II as standalone .......................................................................... 25
Soundcard (Audio Interface) ............................................................25
Routing .........................................................................................27
MIDI ............................................................................................ 28
B4 II as Instrument Plug-in ............................................................... 29
VST 2.0 Plug-In ............................................................................ 29
Audio Units Plug-ins .......................................................................31
DXi 2 plug-in ............................................................................... 35
Using B4 II with Pro Tools .............................................................. 36
