User Manual

CHAPTER

8 AudioDesk

OVERVIEW

This chapter provides a brief overview of

AudioDesk’s basic I/O and synchronization

operation with the 8pre hardware. For complete

information about all of AudioDesk’s powerful

workstation features, see the AudioDesk manual

included with your MOTU 8pre system.

Setting up your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

The 8pre settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Be sure you have enough voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

24-bit operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

MIDI I/O via the 8pre MIDI ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Processing live inputs through plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Syncing to SMPTE time code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Exchanging projects with Digital performer . . . . . . . . . 37

AudioDesk and MIDI sequencing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM

As described in chapter 4, “Installing the 8pre Mac

OS X Software” (page 21), the AudioDesk and

MOTU 8pre software installers will properly install

and update everything for you.

If you are using a MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital

Timepiece for synchronization, be sure they are

present in Audio MIDI setup.

THE 8PRE SETTINGS

Choose the 8pre as your audio input output device

by choosing Conﬁgure Audio System> Conﬁgure

Hardware Driver from the Setup menu. This

window shows some of the 8pre settings, such as

sample rate and clock source, but to access all of the

8pre settings, open MOTU Audio Setup, as shown

in Figure 5-1 on page 26.

Figure 8-1: Choose Setup menu> Conﬁgure Audio System> Conﬁgure

Hardware Driver to open the dialog shown above and access the

8pre CoreAudio driver. To access the rest of the 8pre settings, open

MOTU Audio Setup.

For complete details about the 8pre settings, see

chapter 5, “MOTU Audio Setup” (page 25). The

following sections provide a brief explanation of

each 8pre setting for use with AudioDesk.

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