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
CHAPTER
53
5 Presets
OVERVIEW
Because of its advanced, extensive feature set, your
MOTU AVB interface can be used for many
different purposes. This chapter discusses
common use cases and their corresponding device
presets, to help you use the hardware for your
needs.
Preset menu
The preset menu (item #7 on page 18) contains a
number of presets specifically designed for
common use cases. By loading the corresponding
preset, your MOTU AVB interface routing tab and
mixer will be reconfigured accordingly. You can
visit the Routing and mixing tabs to inspect
settings and adjust them as needed.
Audio interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Stand-alone mixer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Interface + mixer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Live recording with monitor mixing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Stage I/O. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Studio Input expander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Studio Output expander. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Optical converter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Create your own presets
You can create presets to suit your specific needs.
Your MOTU device is highly capable and
configurable, allowing it to perform many tasks
simultaneously.
Video tutorials
To view several excellent video tutorials for the
presets described in this chapter, visit:
www.motu.com/avb
AUDIO INTERFACE
Choose the Audio Interface preset to use your
MOTU AVB device as a standard USB or
Thunderbolt audio interface.
Figure 5-1: Using your MOTU AVB device as an audio interface.
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