User Manual

CHAPTER
7
Quick Reference: MOTU Audio Setup
Determines the clock source for your 8pre. If
you’re just using the analog ins and outs, set
this to ‘Internal’. The other settings are for
digital transfers (via optical) or external
synchronization to other systems.
Lets you enable or disable the
optical input and/or output to
conserve FireWire bus
bandwidth. For details, see
“Optical input/output” on
page 27.
Choose the global sample rate
for the system here.
This menu lets you choose what you will
hear from the headphone jack. To mirror the
main outs, choose Main Out 1-2. Or you can
mirror any other output pair. To hear the
phones as their own independent output,
choose Phones 1-2.
Click the tabs to access general
MOTU interface settings or
settings specific to the 8pre (or
other connected interface.)
Check this option if you would like the MOTU
Audio Setup icon to appear in the applica-
tion dock as soon as a MOTU interface is
detected (switched on, plugged in, etc.)
If you have a foot switch
connected to another MOTU
FireWire interface, these
settings let you map the foot
switch to any computer
keyboard key for both the up
and down position. This setting
does not apply to the 8pre,
which does not have a foot
switch input.
In standard Mac OS X fashion, MOTU Audio
Setup appears in the dock when you launch
it. If the Launch MOTU Audio Setup when
hardware becomes available option is checked
(as shown above), the icon appears as soon as
you switch on your 8pre interface. If you click
and hold on the dock icon (instead of clicking
it) or control-click, a menu of hardware
settings appears as shown to the right. You
can view and configure any hardware
settings from this menu, without opening the
console window.
Click the General tab to access these settings.
This button opens another
dialog that lets you assign your
own customized names to each
8pre input and output. For
example, if you have a lead
vocal mic plugged into input 1,
you could name it “Lead Vox”.
Your customized names then
appear in your host audio
application (if it supports Core
Audio input naming).
Specifies the stereo input and
output pair when the 8pre is
chosen for Mac OS X audio I/O.
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