User`s guide

OTHER MAC OS X AUDIO SOFTWARE
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If you do not have any digital audio connections to
your 896HD (you are using the analog inputs and
outputs only), and you will not be slaving your host
software to an external clock source, choose
Internal.
If you are slaving the 896HD to the ADAT Sync or
Word C l o ck i nput connector, choose ADAT 9-pin
or Word Clock In, respectively.
For information about the other clock source
settings, see “Clock Source” on page 39.
If you have digital audio devices connected to the
896HD, see “Making sync connections” on
page 19.
Optical input and output
To make the 896HD optical input or output
available in your host software, turn them on in the
optical input and/or output menu. If you won’t be
using the optical connectors, turn them off.
Phones
This 896HD setting lets you choose what you’ll
hear from the headphone jack. For example, if you
choose Main Outs, the headphones will duplicate
the main outs. Or you can choose any other output
pair. If you choose Phones, this setting makes the
headphone jack serve as its own independent
output pair (except when running at 176.4 or
192kHz). As a result, you’ll see Phones 1-2 as an
additional audio destination in your host audio
software’s audio output menus.
CHOOSING THE MOTU FIREWIRE
COREAUDIO DRIVER
Once you’ve made the preparations described so
far in this chapter, you’re ready to run your audio
software and enable the MOTU 896HD CoreAudio
driver. Check the audio system or audio hardware
configuration window in your software. There will
be a menu there that lets you choose among
various drivers that may be in your system. Choose
the MOTU 896HD driver from this menu.
Cubase SX and Nuendo
Go to the Devices menu and choose Device Setup.
Choose the MOTU 896HD CoreAudio driver from
the “ASIO Driver” menu as shown below. Activate
the inputs and outputs within Cubase or Nuendo
as usual. For information about the Audio Buffer
Size setting, see “Adjusting buffer settings under
Mac OS X” on page 87.
Figure 9-2: Enabling the 896HD audio driver in Cubase SX.
Logic Audio
In Logic audio, go to the Preferences window,
choose Audio Driver from the menu, and expand
the CoreAudio item as shown below. For
information about the I/O Buffer Size setting, see
“Ad j u s t i n g bu f fe r settings under Mac OS X” on
page 87.