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User's Guide for Windows
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  • Page 1 Traveler ™ User’s Guide for Windows 1280 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Business voice: (617) 576-2760 Business fax: (617) 576-3609 Technical support: (617) 576-3066 Tech support fax: (617) 354-3068 Tech support email: techsupport@motu.com Web site: www.motu.com...
  • Page 2 Return Merchandise That license agreement is a contract, and clicking “Accept” binds you and MOTU to Authorization Number on the outside of the box below the shipping address.

  • Page 3: Table Of Contents

    Quick Reference: MOTU FireWire Audio Console About the Traveler Packing List & Windows System Requirements IMPORTANT! Run the Traveler Software Installer First Installing the Traveler Hardware MOTU FireWire Audio Console Traveler Front Panel Operation Cubase, Nuendo and Other ASIO Software...
  • Page 4 MOTU Traveler. 8. Lightning - For added protection for the MOTU Traveler during a lightning storm, unplug its power supply from any wall outlets. This will prevent damage to the MOTU Traveler due to lightning and power line surges.

  • Page 7: Quick Reference: Motu Firewire Audio Console

    1x rate (either 44.1 or 48kHz). Device Setup in Cubase SX How to access these settings Traveler There are several ways to access these settings: ■ From the Windows Start menu, choose Programs>MOTU>MOTU FireWire Audio Console.

  • Page 9: About The Traveler

    Windows Me/2000/XP. Also included are ASIO2 simultaneously. The Traveler consists of a light (3.8 and GSIF2 drivers for multi-channel operation pounds) and small (14.75x9 inches) aluminum...
  • Page 10 20 inputs and 22 outputs Analog All Traveler inputs and outputs can be used simul- All four quarter-inch analog inputs are equipped taneously, for a total of 20 inputs and 22 outputs: with 24-bit 192kHz, 64x oversampling A/D converters. All eight analog outputs have 24-bit...
  • Page 11 1394 FireWire The two 1394 FireWire jacks accept a standard The RCA and optical S/PDIF jacks are disabled at IEEE 1394 FireWire cable to connect the Traveler to the 4x sample rates (176.4 and 192kHz). a FireWire-equipped Macintosh or Windows On-board SMPTE synchronization computer.
  • Page 12 LEDs, display signal presence. The Power supply threshold for these lights is approximately -42 dB. If you do not want the Traveler to draw power from The four-segment input meters provide dedicated the computer, and AC power is available, you can multi-segment metering for their respective inputs.
  • Page 13 A COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM Regardless of what software you use with the Traveler, the host computer determines the number of tracks the software can record and play simultaneously, as well as the amount of real-time effects processing you can apply to your mix. A...
  • Page 14 A B O U T T H E T R A V E L E R...

  • Page 15: Packing List & Windows System Requirements

    The Traveler ships with the items listed below. If Please send in the registration card included with any of these items are not present in your Traveler your Traveler system. As a registered user, you will box when you first open it, please immediately be eligible to receive on-line technical support contact your dealer or MOTU.
  • Page 16 P A C K I N G L I S T & W I N D O W S S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S...

  • Page 17: Important

    The MOTU FireWire audio WDM driver ....18 Windows Me, 2000 and XP: MOTU GSIF FireWire driver ......18 Software CueMix Console .
  • Page 18 GigaStudio and related products. The GSIF driver features low-latency multi-channel performance. MOTU FIREWIRE MIDI DRIVER Figure 3-1: The MOTU FireWire Audio Console gives you access to all This driver allows you to access the Traveler’s MIDI of the settings in the Traveler hardware.

  • Page 19: Installing The Traveler Hardware

    2. Turn on the Traveler. Using the Traveler with a mixer ..... . 26 3. Turn on other devices connected to the Traveler.

  • Page 20: Connect The Traveler Interface

    CONNECT THE TRAVELER INTERFACE CONNECT AUDIO INPUTS AND OUTPUTS 1 Make sure your computer and the Traveler are The Traveler audio interface has the following switched off. audio input and output connectors: 2 Plug one end of the Traveler FireWire cable 8 balanced, +4 dB quarter-inch analog outputs ■...

  • Page 21: Connect Midi Gear

    If turning the PARAM knob doesn’t do anything, Traveler’s MIDI OUT jack (Connection A below). Conversely, connect the MIDI device’s MIDI OUT press the SETUP knob once, and then turn it. jack to the Traveler’s MIDI IN jack (Connection B). Traveler rear panel MIDI...

  • Page 22: Power Options

    MIDI channel (such as effects modules) so their receive channels don’t conflict with one another. Bus power requirements The Traveler draws all the power it needs from the FireWire bus connection to the computer. However, the FireWire connection to the computer...
  • Page 23 PCI FireWire cards — If you plan to connect the ■ operating scenario. Running time is determined by Traveler to a PCI card and run the Traveler under the capacity of the laptop battery. For extended bus power, the PCI card must have a direct...
  • Page 24 DC power supply The Bus Power Enable/Disable switch If you do not want the Traveler to draw power from The Bus Power Enable/Disable switch on the side the computer, and AC power is available, you can panel of the Traveler lets you control whether or...

  • Page 25: A Typical Traveler Setup (No Mixer)

    A TYPICAL TRAVELER SETUP (NO MIXER) Traveler’s CueMix™ DSP no-latency monitoring to Here is a typical Traveler studio setup. This rig can listen to what you are recording via the main outs, be operated without an external mixer. All mixing headphone outs, or any other output pair.

  • Page 26: Using The Traveler With A Mixer

    USING THE TRAVELER WITH A MIXER and AES/EBU inputs and outputs can serve as an While there are many ways to use the Traveler with extension to the mixer I/O, but then you will an external mixer, typically the Traveler serves as a probably find yourself mixing in two places: the...

  • Page 27: Making Sync Connections

    Figure 4-9: You can run the Traveler under its own internal clock when it has no digital audio connections and you are not synchronizing the Traveler system to an external time reference such as SMPTE.

  • Page 28: Do You Need A Synchronizer

    Can this be If you have stand-alone digital recorders connected accomplished without an additional digital audio to the Traveler, and they support ADAT Sync, your synchronizer? It depends on the nature of the other audio software — if it supports MIDI Machine devices, and what you want to do with them.

  • Page 29: Sample-Accurate Sync

    2.0-compatible app Figure 4-12: These recommended combinations of hardware and software offer the tightest sync possible between the Traveler and digital audio recorders in the form of sample-accurate locating between the software and the tape decks. Sample accurate locating is possible even without a MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital Timepiece, although you give up transport control from the computer.

  • Page 30: Sample-Accurate Adat Sync

    ADAT Sync chain and make the software ✓ Sample-accurate locating between all ADAT SYNC-compati- settings shown below in Figure 4-14. If you will be ble devices, the Traveler and your software (Cubase or other sample-accurate software). using the stand-alone recorder for its analog inputs ✓...

  • Page 31: Sample-Accurate Adat Sync With No Synchronizer

    ✓ You don’t get transport control from your Sample-accurate locating between all ADAT SYNC-compati- ble devices, the Traveler and your software (Cubase or other computer, nor can you slave the system to SMPTE sample-accurate software). time code. Instead, you have to play, stop, rewind ✗...

  • Page 32: Syncing To Smpte Time Code

    A SMPTE time code source, such as a multitrack tape deck. time code. It can also generate time code and word ✓ A Traveler by itself, OR with another slaved device (such as a clock, under its own clock or while slaving to time digital mixer).

  • Page 33: Syncing To Video And/Or Smpte Time Code Using A

    Figure 4-16: If your host audio software does not support sample-accurate sync and the Traveler’s built-in SMPTE sync features, use a universal synchronizer such as the MOTU MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital Timepiece.

  • Page 34: Syncing Optical Devices

    Figure 4-17: Three setups for synchronizing an optical device with the Traveler. You can slave the optical device to the Traveler or vice versa with their optical connections. For more elaborate setups, you can slave both to a digital audio synchronizer like the Digital Timepiece. Don’t use any of these setups for an ADAT or other optical device that records.

  • Page 35: Syncing S/Pdif And Aes/Ebu Devices

    Figure 4-18: Two setups for synchronizing an S/PDIF device with the Traveler. In the top diagram, sync is achieved via the digital I/O connection itself. In this case, you have to choose S/PDIF or AES/EBU as the Traveler’s clock source when recording from the other device. If you don’t want to have to worry about switching the Clock Source setting depending on the direction of the digital transfer, you can slave the other device to word clock from the Traveler or vice versa (not shown).

  • Page 36: Syncing Word Clock Devices

    Slave Traveler Figure 4-20: Slaving the Traveler to word clock. For the Traveler clock source, choose ‘Word Clock In’ . I N S T A L L I N G T H E T R A V E L E R H A R D W A R E...

  • Page 37: Connecting Multiple Motu Firewire Interfaces

    CONNECTING MULTIPLE MOTU FIREWIRE Multiple interfaces cannot be bus-powered INTERFACES Do not run the Traveler under bus power when You can daisy-chain up to four MOTU FireWire connecting it with other devices to the same interfaces on a single FireWire bus, with the FireWire bus.
  • Page 38 first powered up after being connected. This Figure 4-23: All MOTU FireWire audio interfaces get their clock from a information is stored in the MOTU FireWire Audio single master sync source on any connected Traveler (or other MOTU FireWire interface).

  • Page 39: Accessing The Traveler Settings

    Traveler Settings ........40...

  • Page 40: Motu Firewire Audio Console

    Figure 5-1: The MOTU FireWire Audio Console gives you access to all of the settings in the Traveler hardware. M O T U F I R E W I R E A U D I O C O N S O L E...
  • Page 41 ADAT digital audio synchronization format. It external digital audio synchronizer, such as the allows the Traveler to slave to an ADAT — or ADAT MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital Timepiece, to be the sync chain — via its ADAT sync 9-pin connector.
  • Page 42 MIDI Timepiece AV. Word clock can accomplish clock provided an optical S/PDIF device connected the same thing. to the Traveler’s optical input. This setting can be used to slave the Traveler directly to the optical For further details, see “Sample-accurate ADAT input connection.

  • Page 43: Samples Per Buffer

    SMPTE the overall processing load on your computer, Choose this setting to resolve the Traveler directly leaving less CPU bandwidth for things like real- to SMPTE time code (LTC) being received via any time effects processing. On the other hand, if you analog input on the Traveler.

  • Page 44: Phones

    In other words, it can only take CueMix inputs. Word Out If you are running a Traveler interface at a high sample rate (88.2, 96, 176.4 or 192kHz), the Word Out menu appears in the interface tab (as shown in Figure 5-1 on page 40).

  • Page 45: Push-Button Rotary Encoders

    2x16 button digital rotary encoders. In many cases, you backlit LCD display. All Traveler settings can be can either push the knob or turn it to make a accessed via these front-panel controls.

  • Page 46: Traveler Front Panel Operation

    Word Clock Out in the section called “Fader View Time”. If you are running a Traveler interface at a high sample rate (88.2, 96, 176.4 or 192kHz), the Word Clock Out setting lets you choose a word clock output rate that either matches the global sample rate (e.g.
  • Page 47 Bus output, Bus mute and Bus gain. Bus output Save/Name Preset The Bus Output setting lets you choose the Traveler The Save/Name Preset setting lets you name and output pair for each of the four CueMix DSP mix save up to sixteen separate Traveler presets.

  • Page 48: Mix Bus

    MIX BUS knob repeatedly to cycle through the applications are still running, the LCD will alert you with the message saying that the Traveler is in four mixes. The current mix is indicated in the use by the CPU. Quit all audio software LCD above the MIX BUS label (as shown in applications and consoles and then try again.

  • Page 49: Param

    Traveler’s memory, and channels are set to pan-center. they remain in effect even when the Traveler is not connected to a computer. This allows you to use the Traveler as a stand-alone 8-bus mixer. You can make adjustments to any setting at any time from the front panel.
  • Page 50 T R A V E L E R F R O N T P A N E L O P E R A T I O N...

  • Page 51: What Is Asio

    Changing Traveler settings ......54 Processing live inputs with plug-ins ....54 chapter 4, “Installing the Traveler Hardware”...

  • Page 52: Cubase, Nuendo And Other Asio Software

    “Making sync connections” on page 27 and “Clock Source” on Figure 7-1: The MOTU FireWire Audio Console gives you access to all page 40. of the settings in the Traveler hardware, including the clock source, sample rate and optical I/O enable/disable.

  • Page 53: Choosing The Motu Firewire Asio Driver

    Phones This Traveler setting lets you choose what you’ll hear from the headphone jack. For example, if you Figure 7-2: Activating the Traveler FireWire ASIO driver in Nuendo and choose Analog 1-2, the headphones will duplicate Cubase. the main outs. Or you can choose any other output ASIO DIRECT MONITORING pair.

  • Page 54: Viewing And Managing Traveler Outputs

    To view and manage Traveler outputs, click VST Outputs beneath the MOTU FireWire Audio item (Figure 7-4). Figure 7-3: Creating Traveler inputs in Nuendo or Cubase SX. The “Mix1 1-2” input In Cubase’s VST Inputs list, you’ll see a Traveler input called Mix1 1-2.

  • Page 55: Synchronization

    SMPTE time code. If you need to slave Cubase or Nuendo and the Instead, use sample-accurate sync as described in Traveler to SMPTE time code, you can do so with the next section. or without a dedicated synchronizer.
  • Page 56 Sample-accurate sync to ADAT or Tascam 4 If you are using an MMC-compatible Cubase and Nuendo, along with the Traveler and synchronizer (such as a MOTU MIDI its ASIO 2 driver, provide you with sample- Timepiece AV, Digital Timepiece or Alesis BRC), accurate transfers with ADATs, Alesis recorders enable Nuendo’s (or Cubase SX’s) MMC Active...

  • Page 57: Midi Machine Control (Mmc)

    Once you’ve run the Traveler’s software installer as explained in “Installing the Traveler software” on page 17, the Traveler MIDI ports will appear as a input source and output destination in the MIDI input and output menus of your WDM-compatible host software.
  • Page 58 C U B A S E , N U E N D O A N D O T H E R A S I O S O F T W A R E...

  • Page 59: Wdm And Wave Driver Compatibility

    Working with Traveler inputs and outputs ... 62 Changing Traveler settings ......62 basic procedures are the same and can be easily applied to any WDM-compatible software.

  • Page 60: Sonar And Other Wdm Software

    — or monitoring latency — that you hear when live audio is patched through your Figure 8-1: The MOTU FireWire Audio Console gives you access to all Traveler hardware and Sonar. For example, you of the settings in the Traveler hardware, including the clock source, might have MIDI instruments, samplers, sample rate and optical I/O enable/disable.

  • Page 61: Enabling The Motu Firewire Audio Wdm Driver

    Figure 8-2. Figure 8-3: Make sure you have chosen a Traveler input and output for the playback and recording timing master settings. S O N A R A N D O T H E R W D M S O F T W A R E...

  • Page 62: Other Audio Options

    Sonar’s input/ CHANGING TRAVELER SETTINGS output menus, and you can set them up and use You can change the Traveler settings at any time by them as any standard audio input and output. If accessing the MOTU FireWire Audio Console.

  • Page 63: Midi I/O Via The Traveler Midi Ports

    “Installing the Traveler software” on For details, see “Syncing optical devices” on page 17, the Traveler MIDI ports will appear as a page 34 and “Making sync connections” on MIDI input source and output destination in page 27.
  • Page 64 S O N A R A N D O T H E R W D M S O F T W A R E...
  • Page 65 Controlling CueMix DSP from your audio software . . 69 your computer, from when it first enters a Traveler input, passes through the Traveler hardware into the computer, through your host audio software, and then back out to a Traveler output.

  • Page 66: Reducing Monitoring Latency

    Figure 9-1: There are two ways to monitor live audio inputs with a Traveler: 1) through the computer or 2) via CueMix™ DSP hardware monitoring. This diagram shows method 1 (through the computer). When using this method, use your host software’s buffer setting to reduce the slight delay you hear when monitoring the live input, but don’t lower it too much, or your computer might get sluggish.
  • Page 67 FireWire Audio Console, as shown in Figure 9-3 via the Samples Per Buffer setting. Figure 9-3: Lowering the ‘Samples Per Buffer’ setting in the MOTU FireWire Audio Console Window reduces patch thru latency. But doing so increases the processing load on your computer, so keep an eye on the Performance Monitor in your host audio software.
  • Page 68 Lower latency versus higher CPU overhead CUEMIX DSP HARDWARE MONITORING The buffer setting has a large impact on the The Traveler has a more direct method of patching following things: audio through the system. This method is called CueMix DSP . When enabled, CueMix activates Patch thru latency ■...
  • Page 69 Cubase (as explained in most cases, this support consists of patching a the previous section). Traveler input directly to an output when you record-arm a track. Exactly how this is handled Using CueMix DSP with WDM- or Wave- depends on the application.
  • Page 70 R E D U C I N G M O N I T O R I N G L A T E N C Y...
  • Page 71 Solo indicator Input mute/solo Master mute (enable/disable) Input pan Mix output Input volume Master fader Output level Mix tabs Grow box Input section Figure 10-1: CueMix Console is a virtual mixer that gives you control over the Traveler’s on-board mixing features.

  • Page 72: Cuemix Console

    CueMix provides four separate mixes: Mix1, Mix2, Each mix has the following components: Mix3 and Mix4. Each mix can have any number of inputs mixed down to any Traveler output pair that A stereo output with master fader ■ you choose. For example, Mix1 could go to the...

  • Page 73: Shortcuts

    The channel strips to the left of the master fader 1 Select the source mix (Figure 10-1) and choose represent each input in your Traveler. Use the input Copy from the file menu (or press control-C). scroll bar to view additional inputs.

  • Page 74: Preamp Gain, Pad, Reference Level And +6Db Boost

    As explained earlier in “Save/Name Preset” on headphone distribution amp to analog outputs 7-8 page 47, the Traveler can store up to 16 presets in its on your MOTU Firewire audio interface, as on-board memory. A preset includes of all CueMix demonstrated below in Figure 10-2 on page 75.
  • Page 75 Talkback / Listenback Mic Input Control room Choose the audio input to which your Talkback Talkback and/or Listenback mic is connected. These inputs are labeled with a purple and blue swatch, respectively, just above the channel fader. Main outs Outs These labels identify the Talkback and Listenback mic inputs.

  • Page 76: Mix1 Return Includes Computer

    CueMix Console File menu refers to the Mix1 bus surface menu command makes the CueMix that the Traveler driver provides as an input to host Console window scroll to the channel you are audio software. This input source delivers the currently adjusting with the control surface, if the output of CueMix DSP “MIX1”...
  • Page 77 displayed, CueMix Console will jump to the Enabled Check this menu item to turn on control surface appropriate tab to display the control you are operation of CueMix Console. Uncheck it to turn adjusting. off control surface support. Share surfaces with other applications When the Share surfaces with other applications Configure…...

  • Page 78: Cuemix Console Examples

    24-bit digital I/O to the digital mixer (or 4 channels at 96kHz). Any device connected to the Traveler can be routed to/from the mixer with no latency. Conversely, any mixer channel can be routed to any device connected to the Traveler with no latency.

  • Page 79: Firewire Smpte Console

    Generator section ........81 The Reader section provides The Generator section settings for resolving to video provides settings for striping and/or SMPTE time code. SMPTE time code. Figure 11-1: SMPTE Console gives you access to your Traveler’s on-board SMPTE time code synchronization features.
  • Page 80 SMPTE time code or Resolving to video word clock. To resolve the Traveler to video, you need a synchronizer such as a MIDI Timepiece AV or a Address The Address light glows continuously when the...
  • Page 81 Or drag vertically on the drop-out in the incoming SMPTE time code for numbers. some reason. The Traveler can freewheel past the drop-out and then resume lockup again as soon as it receives a stable, readable clock signal.
  • Page 82 F I R E W I R E S M P T E C O N S O L E...

  • Page 83: Performance Tips & Troubleshooting

    You Programs Control Panel then restart. Reinstall the won't be able to record from the Traveler to a tape Traveler software and choose only to install the deck until it is switched to digital input.
  • Page 84 The serial number of the Traveler system. This is ■ printed on a sticker placed on the bottom of the Traveler rack unit. You must be able to supply this number to receive technical support. Software version numbers for the audio software ■...
  • Page 85 7, 44, 46 Copy bus mix 4/10 Forget button Cubase 4-pin FireWire Freewheel clock source 6-pin FireWire address enabling the Traveler ASIO driver clock Optical input/output connecting to Traveler infinite sample rate 896HD Front panel 30, 31 sync settings connecting to Traveler...
  • Page 86 Digital Timepiece clock source setting 6, 10 optical FireWire Audio Console connecting MIDI Timepiece AV Traveler sync MOTU FireWire Audio connecting multiple interfaces 7, 40 Sample rate ASIO driver expansion 192kHz operation MTC sync installing Sample-accurate sync 11, 29, 30, 31, 56...
  • Page 87 Word Clock In setting 7, 44, 46 Word out Follows System Force 44.1/48kHz 7, 44, 46 Yamaha 02R connecting I N D E X...

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