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
SOFTWARE INSTALLATION
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RUN THE MOTU AUDIO INSTALLER
To download the latest MOTU AVB installer, visit
www.motu.com/avb. Follow the directions that the
installer gives you.
CORE AUDIO DRIVERS
Core Audio refers to the software technology built
into Mac OS X that provides all of its audio
features. More specifically, we use Core Audio to
refer to Mac OS X’s standard audio driver model.
The MOTU Core Audio driver provides multi-
channel audio input and output with any
Mac OS X Core Audio-compatible software.
For details about accessing the Core Audio driver
for your MOTU AVB interface, refer to your host
software documentation, or see chapter 7,
“Working with Host Audio Software” (page 61).
MOTU AVB DISCOVERY APP
The MOTU AVB Discovery app is installed in your
Mac’s applications folder. It locates all MOTU AVB
interfaces connected to the computer, either
directly through Thunderbolt/USB or on your
network, and displays them in a list. Double-click
an interface to access its settings through the web
app (“MOTU AVB Control Web App” on page 17).
AUDIODESK WORKSTATION SOFTWARE
AudioDesk is an advanced workstation software
package that lets you record, edit, mix, process,
bounce and master multi-track digital audio
recording projects. Advanced features include real-
time effects processing, recording, and much
more.
See the AudioDesk User Guide, available on your
computer hard drive as a PDF document.
Figure 3-1: AudioDesk.