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
THE FRONT PANEL LCD
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Network menu
The Network menu displays the following
network-related information:
Settings menu
The Settings menu provides access to basic
hardware settings, such as Clock Mode, Sample
Rate, and so on.
Presets menu
The Presets menu lets you recall settings that have
been saved as a device preset. Use the web app to
create and save presets (item #7 in the “Device tab”
on page 18).
Version menu
The Version menu displays firmware version
information.
CLOCK
The Clock section of the LCD displays the sample
rate at which the unit is currently operating, and
the current Clock Mode setting (item #13 in the
Devices tab on page 18). The Clock Mode setting
can also be found (and changed) in the Settings
Menu.
ADAT SMUX TYPE
When your MOTU interface is operating at either
88.2 or 96 kHz, the Settings menu > Optical setting
lets you configure ADAT SMUX type. There are
two choices:
■ Type I — interoperation with 3rd-party SMUX-
compatible hardware products
■ Type II — interoperation with compatible
MOTU products
STAND-ALONE OPERATION
All settings, including mix settings and device
settings, are saved in your MOTU interface’s
memory. They remain in effect even when the
interface is not connected to a computer. This
allows you to use your MOTU device as a stand-
alone mixer. You can make adjustments to any
setting at any time from the web app running on a
device that has a network connection to your
MOTU interface, as explained in “Setup for web
app control” on page 40.
Setting Explanation
Serial/UID Unique AVB network identifier that can be
used for troubleshooting.
IP address The unique network address for the unit.
Type this address into your web browser to
access the unit’s settings in the MOTU
AVB Control web app.
AVB Indicates whether AVB networking is cur-
rently enabled or disabled. For example,
AVB could be disabled because a non-AVB
switch is being used. When AVB is dis-
abled, audio streaming over the network is
disabled.
Setting What it does
Clock Mode Sets the digital audio clock source for the
device.
Sample Rate Sets the sample rate for the device.
Word Clock Thru
Mode
Toggles the Word Clock Output between
OUT and THRU.
Optical Specifies the SMUX format when operat-
ing at 88.2 or 96 kHz. See “ADAT SMUX
Type” on page 59.
Configure IP Chooses between DHCP and a manually
assigned IP Address.
LCD Contrast Adjusts the contrast of the LCD.
Factory Defaults Restores factory default settings.