User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Quick Start Guide
- 1248 Front Panel
- 1248 Rear Panel
- 8M Front Panel
- 8M Rear Panel
- 16A Rear Panel
- 16A Front Panel
- MOTU AVB Switch
- MOTU AVB Control Web App
- Overview
- It’s not on your hard drive
- Use your favorite web browser
- Control from multiple devices
- Run the installer, get the app
- Make hardware and network connections
- Launching the web app
- Device tab
- Device tab (continued)
- Routing tab
- Mixing tab
- Aux Mixing tab
- Mixer input channel strips
- Main Mix and Monitor channel strips
- Aux bus channel strips
- Group and Reverb channel strips
- 1 About Your MOTU AVB Audio Interface
- State-of-the-art A/D and D/A conversion
- Complementary I/O configurations
- 1248
- 8M
- 16A
- Network I/O
- Universal connectivity
- On-board DSP with mixing and effects
- 32-bit floating point processing
- Modeled vintage effects processing
- AVB system expansion and audio networking
- Matrix routing and multing
- 256 channels of network audio I/O for your host computer
- Web app control
- Stand-alone mixing with wireless control
- ADAT digital I/O
- S/PDIF digital I/O with SRC
- Word clock
- Comprehensive metering
- Headphone outputs
- Precision Digital Trim™
- Rack mount or desktop operation
- AudioDesk
- 2 Packing List and System Requirements
- 3 Software Installation
- 4 Hardware Installation
- Overview
- Rack installation and heat
- Thunderbolt audio interface setup
- USB audio interface setup
- Setup for two interfaces
- Setup for three to five interfaces
- Setup for a multi-switch network
- Setup for multiple Thunderbolt and USB interfaces
- Setup for web app control
- Audio connections
- A typical 1248 setup
- A typical 8M setup
- A typical 16A setup
- Synchronization
- Syncing S/PDIF devices
- Syncing word clock devices
- Syncing an AVB network
- 5 Presets
- 6 The Front Panel LCD
- 7 Working with Host Audio Software
- Overview
- Preparation
- Run the web app
- Sample rate
- Clock Mode
- Enabling and disabling input/output banks
- Specifying the number of computer channels
- Making inputs and outputs available to your host software
- Configuration presets
- Naming computer input and output channels
- Streaming computer audio to and from the onboard mixer
- Working with AVB network streams
- Mirroring computer channels to multiple outputs
- Combining multiple inputs to one output
- Routing grid tutorials
- Choosing the MOTU Audio driver
- Reducing monitoring latency
- Working with on-board mixing and effects
- Synchronization
- 8 Mixer Effects
- 9 Networking
- A Troubleshooting
- B Audio Specifications
- C Mixer Schematics
- D Updating Firmware
- E OSC Support
- Index
INDEX
100
7, 55
Logic Pro/Express 61
clock source 61
sample rate 61
Lookahead 57
M
Mac OS X 61
input and output names 63
Makeup gain 73
Mic inputs 42
preamp gain/pad/48V 9
Mic/guitar inputs 42
connecting 44, 45, 46
Soft Clip 42
V-Limit 42, 57
Mixer
accessing
21
aux bus 25
effects 69
group bus 26
input channel strip 23
main mix channel strip 24
Monitor channel strip 24
overview 21
Reverb bus 26
schematics 91
Setup 19
stand-alone operation 69
Mixing tab 21
Monitor output
volume control
9
MOTU
AudioDesk
64
AVB
Switch
15
AVB Control web app 7, 17-26
Aux Mixing tab 22
Device tab 18, 19
Mixing tab 21
Routing tab 20
AVB Discovery app 7, 34
AVB Installer 7, 17, 33
AVB Switch
setup
37, 41
Digital Performer 64
N
Networking 75-80
installation 37, 38
MOTU AVB Switch 15
Nuendo 61
clock source 61
Mac OS X 64
sample rate 61
O
Optical
2x mode
59
connectors 10, 12, 14, 43
Optical converter mode 59
setup/example 56
Optical Converter preset 7, 56
Optimization 67
OS X audio software
clock source
61
sample rate 61
OSC support 97
Output banks 19
Output settings 18
Outputs
analog
10, 12, 14
optical 10, 12, 14
S/PDIF (TOSLink) 10
P
Packing list 31
Pad 42
Patch thru
latency
67
Performance 67
Phantom power 42
Phase-lock 47
Phone outputs 9
Power switch 9
PRE switch 21
PreDelay 73
Prefader button 22
Presets 7, 18
Mixer tab 21
overview 53
Routing tab 20
Pro Tools 61
Processing 69
Q
Q 70
Quick Setup window 7
QuickStart Guide 7
R
Ratio
Compressor
71
Reaper 61, 65
Reason 61
Record 61
Registration 31
Release
Compressor
70, 71
Remote control (through OSC) 97
Restore Factory Presets 19
Reverb 73-74
design section 73
enabling/disabling 73
predelay 73
routing to/from 73
time 73, 74
width 74
RMS mode 71
Routing tab 20
S
S/MUX 59
S/PDIF 29
connection 43
optical 10, 12, 14
RCA 10
sync 48
Safari 17
Sample rate 18
Sample rate conversion 43
Samplers
connecting
44, 45, 46
SC button 24
Schematics 91
Soft Clip 42
Software
installation
34
Software installer 7, 17, 33
Solo bus 24
Solo Clear button 23
Soundtrack Pro
clock source
61
sample rate 61
Specifications 85
SRC 43
Stage I/O preset 7, 55
Stand-alone mixer preset 7, 54
Stand-alone operation 57, 59
Studio Input Expander preset 7, 55
Studio Output Expander preset 7, 56
Studio setup (example) 44, 45, 46
Synchronization 47
Become Clock Master 49
host software 68
Synths
connecting
44, 45, 46
System requirements
minimum
31
recommended computer 31
T
Technical support 84
Threshold
Compressor
71
To Computer 20
TOSLink 10, 12, 14, 29
Trim 42
Troubleshooting 83
TRS analog inputs/outputs 43
TRS connectors 42
Type I, II optical mode 59
U
Unbalanced analog 42
Update From File 19
USB
class compliance
33
installing drivers 34
V
View Personal Mix 22
V-Limit 42, 57
Lookahead 57
W
Width
reverb
74
WiFi
setup
41
Word clock 10, 12, 48