User guide

MOTU AUDIO SETUP
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Phones
The Phones setting lets you choose what you will
hear from the headphone jack. Choose
Main Out 1-2 if you’d like the headphone output to
match the main outs. Choose Phones if you would
like the headphones to serve as their own
independent output, which you can access as an
independent output destination in your host audio
software and as an output destination for the eight
on-board CueMix FX mix busses.
Main Out Assign
Choose Main Outs from the Main Out Assign menu
to treat the Main Outs as their own independent
output pair. Choose any other output pair to cause
the MAIN OUT jacks to mirror (duplicate) the
output pair you choose.
Return Assign
The Return Assign menu lets you choose any pair of
UltraLite-mk3 audio outputs. The audio signal
from this output pair is then sent back to the
computer via the Stereo Return 1-2 bus. This stereo
return bus from the UltraLite-mk3 appears in your
host software alongside all other UltraLite-mk3
inputs, wherever your host software lists them.
The UltraLite-mk3 stereo return bus can be used
for a variety of purposes. For example, you could
use it to send a final mix being played through the
UltraLite-mk3 back to the computer, where you
could record it for mastering or archiving
purposes.
As another example, you could use the stereo
return bus to capture tracks played from your host
software, along with live inputs being routed
directly through the UltraLite-mk3 hardware via
CueMix FX (with or without CueMix effects
processing on the live inputs).
‘GENERAL’ TAB SETTINGS
Launch MOTU Audio Setup when hardware
becomes available
Check this option if you would like the MOTU
Audio Setup icon to appear in the application dock
as soon as a MOTU FireWire interface is detected
(switched on, plugged in, etc.)
Edit Channel Names
Click the Edit Channel Names button to open the
Channel Names window (Figure 5-3). This
window lets you edit the names of the
UltraLite-mk3 inputs and outputs, as they appear
in your host audio software. For example, when
you click on a menu that displays the
UltraLite-mk3 inputs (or outputs), you will see the
names you specify in this window (e.g. “vocal mic”,
“lead guitar”, etc.), instead of the default generic
names (“Analog 1”, “Analog 2”, etc.)
☛ Not all Mac OS X audio software supports
channel names. If not, you’ll see generic port
names in your host audio software.
Figure 5-3: The Edit Channel Names window.