User guide
 CUBASE, NUENDO, LIVE AND OTHER ASIO SOFTWARE
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independent output pair. As a result, you’ll see 
Phones 1-2 as an additional audio destination in 
Cubase or Nuendo’s audio output menus.
Main Out Assign
Use the Main Out Assign setting to determine what 
audio you will hear on the TRS main outs of the 
UltraLite-mk3. If you would like to treat them as 
their own separate output pair, choose Main Outs.
CHOOSING THE MOTU ASIO DRIVER
Once you’ve made the preparations described so 
far in this chapter, you’re ready to run your audio 
software and enable the MOTU ASIO Driver. 
Check the audio system or audio hardware 
configuration window in your software. There will 
be a menu there that lets you choose among 
various ASIO drivers that may be in your system. 
Choose the MOTU ASIO Driver from this menu.
Nuendo, Cubase and V-Stack
To activate the UltraLite-mk3 driver in Nuendo or 
Cubase SX, go to the Device Setup window, click 
VST Audio System and choose MOTU Audio ASIO 
from the ASIO Driver menu (Figure 7-2). Make the 
other settings in the dialog as need for your system 
and synchronization scenario.
Figure 7-2: Activating the UltraLite-mk3 ASIO driver in Nuendo and
Cubase.
Live
In Ableton Live, access the preferences window and 
click the Audio tab. Choose ASIO from the Driver 
Ty p e  menu. Choose the MOTU Audio ASIO from 
the Audio Device menu as shown below in 
Figure 7-3. To enable or disable UltraLite-mk3 
input or output channels, click the Input Config or 
Output Config buttons. To access MOTU Audio 
Console, click the Hardware Setup button.
For information about the Buffer Size setting, see 
“Adjusting the audio I/O buffer” on page 57.
Figure 7-3: Enabling the UltraLite-mk3 in Live.










