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Your interface should come with software to control it, often labeled "mixer" or "control panel". This often lets you do various things with inputs and outputs similar to real-world mixing board. It is also where you set the sample rate, clock source, input buffer, and SPDIF source.
=== Inputs /Mixer ===
The mixer tab of the control panel typically resembles a mixing board. This includes the <u>physical inputs</u> on your interface as well as <u>software return inputs</u> from your DAW which your DAW will see as ''outputs''. Your DAW should automatically see all of your interface's physical inputs without having to change anything here. Different interfaces will provide your DAW software with different numbers of virtual outputs. The mixer page determines how the physical and software inputs are routed to the physical outputs on the interface. Let's look at a few examples.