User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Title Page
- Quick Start Guide
- LP32 Front Panel
- LP32 Rear Panel
- MOTU Pro Audio 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)
- 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 the LP32
- Comprehensive I/O
- Flexible optical I/O
- Network I/O
- Other MOTU AVB interfaces
- Universal computer connectivity
- On-board DSP with mixing and effects
- 32-bit floating point processing
- Modeled vintage effects processing
- AVB/TSN system expansion and audio networking
- Matrix routing and multing
- Web app control
- Stand-alone mixing with wireless control
- Comprehensive metering
- Headphone output
- Rack mount or desktop operation
- Audio analysis tools
- AudioDesk
- 2 Packing List and System Requirements
- 3 Software Installation
- 4 Hardware Installation
- Overview
- USB or iOS audio interface setup
- AVB Ethernet audio interface setup
- Setup for two interfaces
- Setup for three to five interfaces
- Setup for a multi-switch network
- Setup for multiple interfaces
- Setup for web app control
- Setup for AVB Ethernet audio interface operation
- Audio connections
- Synchronization
- Syncing optical devices
- Syncing word clock devices
- Syncing an AVB network
- Syncing multiple AVB audio interfaces connected to a Mac
- 5 Presets
- 6 The Front Panel LCD
- 7 Working with Host Audio Software
- Overview
- Preparation
- Run the web app
- Choose the MOTU Pro Audio driver
- Reducing monitoring latency
- Monitoring through the LP32
- Direct hardware playthrough / Direct ASIO monitoring
- Monitoring through your host audio software
- Adjusting your host software audio buffer
- Adjusting buffer size on Mac OS X
- Adjusting buffer size on Windows
- Lower latency versus higher CPU overhead
- Transport responsiveness
- Effects processing and automated mixing
- Working with the Routing grid
- 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 sources to one output
- Routing grid tutorials
- Working with on-board mixing and effects
- 8 Mixer Effects
- 9 MOTU Audio Tools
- 10 Networking
- A Troubleshooting
- B Audio Specifications
- C Mixer Schematics
- D Updating Firmware
- E OSC Support
- Index
HARDWARE INSTALLATION
34
AVB ETHERNET AUDIO INTERFACE SETUP
Use this setup if you want to use the LP32 as an AVB
Ethernet audio interface for a recent-generation
Mac (i.e. any Mac with a Thunderbolt port on it).
OS X El Capitan (10.11) or later is required for AVB
audio I/O.
■ Use a standard CAT-5e or CAT-6 cable.
■ Connect to the computer’s Ethernet port.
See “Setup for AVB Ethernet audio interface
operation” on page 40.
About CAT-5e cables
Use shielded CAT-5e or
CAT-6 cables, which are a
higher grade version of a
standard Ethernet cable.
They are available wherever
network cables are sold.
SETUP FOR TWO INTERFACES
Use this setup if you want to connect two MOTU
interfaces to your computer.
■ The connection to the computer can be either
USB or Thunderbolt, if you have a Thunderbolt-
equipped MOTU AVB interface such as the 8A,
8M, 16A, 1248, 112D or 624. If you intend to run a
very high number of audio channels to and from
the computer, use Thunderbolt or USB 3.0, which
support fast bus speeds and high channel counts.
■ If you use Thunderbolt, use a standard
Thunderbolt cable. Place it at the end of the
Thunderbolt chain.
■ Use any standard CAT-5e Ethernet network
cable to connect the two interfaces together using
their NETWORK ports.
■ As an alternative, see “Setup for multiple
interfaces” on page 37.
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