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
CHAPTER
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9 MOTU Audio Tools
The MOTU Audio Tools application provides
advanced audio analysis tools, which can be
applied to a left channel input, right channel input,
or both.
Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Device menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Analysis menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Left/right input . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
FFT and Spectrogram display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
X-Y Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Phase Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
INSTALLATION
MOTU Audio Tools is a standard software
application installed on your Mac or PC when you
run the MOTU Pro Audio installer or setup app. It
can be found in the Applications folder (Mac) or
Start menu under MOTU (Windows).
DEVICE MENU
If you are working with more than one MOTU
audio interface, the Device menu (Figure 9-1)
displays all interfaces that are currently connected
to your host computer. Choose the device you wish
to work with.
Figure 9-1: The MOTU Audio Tools window with the FFT and Spectrogram Analysis .