User Manual-for Windows

SONAR AND OTHER WDM SOFTWARE
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3 Check the Audio Express inputs and outputs
that you wish to use and uncheck the ones you
don’t as shown in Figure 8-3.
Figure 8-3: Activating the MOTU Audio WDM driver in SONAR by
highlighting Audio Express inputs and outputs.
Enabling the MOTU ASIO driver in SONAR
As an alternative to the Audio Express’s WDM
driver, you can use the Audio Express’s ASIO
driver. Note, however, that you can only use one
audio interface at a time under ASIO. In the Audio
preferences section, choose Playback and
Recording and choose ASIO from the Driver Mode
menu, as shown below:
Figure 8-4: Enabling the ASIO driver instead of the WDM driver.
Other audio settings in SONAR
There are a few other settings in SONAR that
impact Audio Express operation:
1 In the Audio preferences section, choose Driver
Settings.
2 Choose any Audio Express input and output for
recording and playback timing. It doesn’t matter
which ones.
3 In the same settings, click the Wave Profiler
button and run the Wave Profiler.
This process chooses the optimum settings for the
Audio Express hardware.
WORKING WITH AUDIO EXPRESS INPUTS
AND OUTPUTS
Once you’ve enabled the Audio Express inputs and
output, Audio Express audio inputs and outputs
will appear in your host software’s input/output
menus, and you can set them up and use them as
any standard audio input and output.
Mix1 1-2
In SONAR, you’ll see an Audio Express input pair
called Mix1 1-2. This is a stereo feed from the
Audio Express that matches its main outs. This can
be used, for example, to record a final stereo mix
for reference and archiving purposes.
☛ Warning: the Return inputs can cause
feedback loops! DO NOT assign this input to a
track assigned to the Audio Express main outs.
For Mix1 1-2, you can choose whether or not to
include audio being sent to the main outs from the
computer. See “Mix1 Return Includes Computer
Output” on page 56.
The “Phones 1-2” output
Host audio tracks assigned to the Phones 1-2
output pair will be heard on the headphone jack
only. If the Phones are set to mirror another output