Direct Monitoring - Yamaha i88X Owner's Manual

Direct Monitoring

Through the MASTER L & R jacks and the MASTER PHONES jack, you can directly monitor signals
input at INPUT 1-8 jacks or COAXIAL or OPTICAL DIGITAL STEREO INPUT jacks.
When an audio input signal, such as a guitar or vocal signal, is output through the computer,
latency (delay) may occur. However, this Direct Monitoring function enables you to monitor a sig-
nal before it is output to the connected computer, and thus avoids latency in the monitoring signal.
If you wish to record to the DAW your vocal or musical instrument performance accompanying
NOTE
the DAW's background tracks, while listening to the sound through the i88X, turn off the mon-
itoring function on the DAW. Otherwise, you will have to listen to a delayed sound (from the
DAW) and to a non-delayed sound (monitoring sound from the i88X) at the same time, result-
ing in a garbled sound.
ANALOG
INPUTS
DIGITAL STEREO
INPUTS
1. Follow Steps 1 and 2 in "Connecting Musical Instruments and Microphones and Adjusting
the Input Level" on page 16 to connect the musical instruments and microphones to the
INPUT 1-8 jacks or COAXIAL or OPTICAL DIGITAL SETEREO INPUT jacks.
2. Press the [SELECT] button on the front panel (page 9) repeatedly to select a an input chan-
nel for direct monitoring through the MASTER OUT L & R jacks on the rear panel.
Press the switch briefly (less than one second) repeatedly to select monitoring channels in the
following sequence:
Off → CH1/2 → CH3/4 → CH5/6 → CH7/8 → DIGITAL STEREO -> Off
The MONITOR indicator (page 9) for the selected channels lights up red.
3. Adjust the [GAIN] controls for the INPUT channels (to which the musical instruments and
microphones are connected) and the [MASTER VOLUME] control.
4. Adjust the [MONITOR VOLUME] control.
Monitoring signals are output from the MASTER L & R jacks and the MASTER PHONES jack.
The [MONITOR VOLUME] control enables you to adjust the volume of the monitoring signals
without changing the recording level (input gain).
1/2
MONITOR
3/4
VOLUME
5/6
MONITOR
SELECT
7/8
mLAN INPUTS
1, 2
MASTER
VOLUME
PHONES
ANALOG
OUTPUTS
1/L, 2/R
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