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
99
+4dB analog input 42
-10dB analog input 42
1248
expansion
36
front panel 9
installing 35
rear panel 10
summary of features 27
16A
expansion
36
front panel 13
installing 35
rear panel 14
summary of features 27
24-bit
optical
10, 12, 14
8M
expansion
36
front panel 11
installing 35
rear panel 12
Soft Clip 42
summary of features 27
V-Limit 42, 57
A
Ableton Live 61
ADAT optical 10, 12, 14
connecting 43
SMUX Type 59
Analog inputs/outputs 10, 12, 14, 43
making connections to 42
Apple
GarageBand
64
ASIO monitoring 65
Attack
Compressor
70, 71
Audio interface preset 7, 53
Audio specifications 85
AudioDesk 29, 34, 61, 64
authenticating 83
Aux Mix Target 22
Aux Mixing tab 22
AVB
Discovery app
7, 34
Ethernet explained 75
Input/Output Banks 19
networking 75-80
overview 75
Stream Connections 19
Stream Setup 19
streams (Routing tab) 20
Switch
setup
37, 41
AVB Control web app 7, 17-26
Aux Mixing tab 22
Device tab 18, 19
Mixing tab 21
Routing tab 20
AVB Switch 15
B
Balanced analog 42
Become Clock Master 18, 49
C
CAT-5e/6 cables 15, 36
Check for Updates 19
Chrome 17
Class compliance 33
Clock section (LCD) 9, 59
Clock source 18, 47
Coax 29
Cockos Reaper 65
Compressor effect 21, 71
Computer Setup 19
Condenser mic input 42
Connecting multiple interfaces 36
Control surface support (through OSC) 97
Converter mode
setup/example
56
Core Audio
defined
34
Cubase 61
clock source 61
Mac OS X 64
sample rate 61
Customer
support
84
D
DAT
connecting
44, 45, 46
Device tab 18, 19
Digital converter (see Optical converter)
Digital Performer
61, 64
Direct hardware playthrough 65
Direct ASIO monitoring 65
Direct hardware playthrough 65
Driver installation 7, 17, 33
Drivers
installing USB drivers
34
DSP
effects
69
meter 74
resources 74
DSP Usage 23, 74
Dynamic mic 42
E
Effects 69
EQ 70
enabling 70
filter types 70
frequency 70
gain 70
Q 70
Ethernet
connecting
41
Ethernet cables 15
Expansion 36
F
Firefox 17
Firmware updates 18
Follow Solo 21, 24
Four-band EQ 70
Frequency
EQ
70
From Computer 20
Front panel 57
menu navigation 58
metering 57
G
Gain
EQ
70
reduction 71
reduction (Leveler) 73
GarageBand 61, 64
clock source 61
sample rate 61
Gate effect 21, 70
GR (gain reduction) 71
Guitar
connecting
42
Guitar inputs 9, 42
Guitar/mic inputs
connecting
44, 45, 46
H
Headphone outputs 9
Headphones
connecting
44, 45, 46
High pass filter 69
Host audio software
3rd party software sync
68
I
ID knob/button 17, 18, 58
IEEE 802.1 75
Input banks 19
Input settings 18
Inputs
analog
10, 12, 14
optical 10, 12, 14
S/PDIF (RCA) 10
Installation
hardware
35
network 37, 38
QuickStart Guide 7
software 34
Thunderbolt interface 36
two interfaces networked 36
USB interface 35
Interface + mixer preset 7, 54
Internet Explorer 17
IP address 17
iPad
QuickStart
7
L
Latency 65, 67
LCD
menu
58
Level meters 9
Leveler 21, 72
Lightpipe
2x mode
59
Limit button 73
Live recording with monitor mixing preset
Index