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EXPANDING YOUR PCI-424 SYSTEM
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Enabling banks, or individual ins and outs
Bank enabling, or enabling individual inputs and
outputs, works the same for each interface in the
MOTU PCI Audio Console window. Choose an
interface from the Configure Interface menu
(Figure 11-2) and then configure the banks (or
individual outputs) as usual. See “Interface
settings” on page 70 and “Enable routing” on
page 71 for details.
Working with input and output menus
With multiple interfaces connected, input and
output menus show all available ports on all
interfaces, as demonstrated below in Figure 11-3. If
interfaces are configured to share the same type of
I/O format (analog, for example), their outputs are
labeled with the bank letter (A, B or C) and
interface name, along with numbered suffixes (e.g.
2408mk3-1, 2408mk3-2, etc.) according to the
order in which they are connected to the PCI-424
card as shown in Figure 11-1 on page 101.
Notice that in the example below, the second
2408mk3 interface is configured for three ADAT
banks, but since no other interface is configured for
the ADAT format, the interface name is not
included in the name of the input or output.
Figure 11-3: Input and output menus show the ports of all connected
interfaces. In this example, there are three 2408mk3 interfaces and
one 24I/O interface.
CUEMIX DSP ROUTING AMONG
INTERFACES
The PCI-424 card, with its CueMix DSP engine,
ties all connected audio interfaces together,
allowing them to act as a massive audio routing
matrix for mixing, merging, splitting and routing
to/from all connected inputs and outputs. You can
route any input to any output, create multiple mix
busses and mix inputs to outputs across all
interfaces. For details, see chapter 13, “CueMix
Console” (page 111).
2408mk3 #1
2408mk3 #2
2408mk3 #3
24I/O (on
Audio Wire
port #4)