User Manual-Windows

EXPANDING YOUR PCI-424 SYSTEM

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 9-2) and then conﬁgure the banks (or

individual outputs) as usual. See “Interface

settings” on page 68 and “Enable routing” on

page 69 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 9-3. 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 9-1 on page 87.

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 9-3: 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 11, “CueMix

Console” (page 97).

2408mk3 #1

2408mk3 #2

2408mk3 #3

24I/O (on

Audio Wire

port #4)