User Manual-Mac

MOTU PCI AUDIO CONSOLE
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Clip Time-Out
The Clip Time-Out option controls how long the
top red LED remains illuminated after clipping
occurs (see Figure 6-13 below).
Figure 6-13: The Clip Time-Out option.
If you want the ability to clear the LED manually
from your host audio software or CueMix Console,
Choose Infinite from the Clip Time-Out menu.
Then, in CueMix Console, click the Clear Clip
button as shown in Figure 13-1 on page 111.
In Digital Performer or AudioDesk, you can clear
the HD192 clip LEDs by choosing Audio
menu>Clear All Clipping Indicators.
Peak/Hold Time-Out
The HD192 front-panel level meters support
standard peak/hold metering, where the LED for
the highest level recently measured on the channel
remains illuminated for a brief period of time while
the rest of the LEDs below it remain fully dynamic.
The Peak/Hold Time-Out controls how long the
peak-hold LED remain illuminated before going
dark again.
SAVING AND RECALLING ROUTINGS
If you have several interfaces connected to your
system, there are a lot of banks to configure in the
middle portion of the PCI Audio Console window
(one entire “page” for each). For your convenience,
the Save Config button lets you save the current
routing configuration (including the routing for
the 2nd, 3rd and 4th interfaces, if you have them)
so you can recall the configuration later on with an
easy click of the Load Config button. Save the file in
the standard fashion. Note that only the settings in
the middle portion of the window (i.e. the input
and output routings) are saved. The PCI-424
settings are not included as part of the configu-
ration, as they are usually system-wide settings that
you won’t change very often.
THE REFRESH BUTTON
The Refresh button makes the MOTU PCI Audio
Console window query the audio interfaces
connected to the PCI-424 card to make sure that
the settings in the window accurately reflect the
settings in the hardware. Under normal operations,
this should never be necessary. Even if you switch
off the interfaces, the PCI-424 software driver is
designed to re-establish contact with the hardware.
Even so, if you suspect that the hardware might be
in a different state than what you see in the window,
click Refresh.
CHOOSING A CONFIG BEFORE OPENING A
FILE
The settings in the PCI Audio Console window are
not saved with the files you create and save with
host audio applications like AudioDesk, Digital
Performer, or third party audio programs. To save
time, you can save the current PCI Audio Console
Window settings as a file on disk (as explained
earlier), along with your host audio program files.
If you work on the project later on, you can quickly
load the configuration file, without having to
remember how the PCI Audio Console window
was configured.
Some host audio applications, like AudioDesk and
Digital Performer, remember the PCI Audio
Console Window’s input and output settings at the
time you last saved a project file. This means that
even if the PCI Audio Console Window doesn’t
currently have the exact same settings, AudioDesk
and Digital Performer display the inputs and
outputs that were in effect when the file was last
saved. Unavailable inputs/outputs are displayed in
italics.
The ‘Clip Time-Out’ option controls how
long this LED remains illuminated.
This LED lights up momentarily.