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MOTU Traveler User Manual

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  • Page 1 Traveler ™ User’s Guide for Macintosh 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 & Mac System Requirements Installing the Traveler Hardware Installing the Traveler Mac OS X Software MOTU FireWire Audio Console Traveler Front Panel Operation Digital Performer AudioDesk Logic and Other Mac OS X 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

    1, checked (as shown above), the icon appears you could name it “Lead Vox” . as soon as you switch on your Traveler inter- Your customized names then face. If you click and hold on the dock icon...

  • Page 9: About The Traveler

    AudioDesk™, full-featured audio outputs, both analog and digital, can be accessed workstation software for Mac OS that supports simultaneously. The Traveler consists of a light (3.8 both 16-bit and 24-bit recording. pounds) and small (14.75x9 inches) aluminum THE TRAVELER I/O REAR PANEL...
  • 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 The Traveler system is fully integrated with MOTU’s award-winning Digital Performer audio sequencer software package. OTHER HOST AUDIO SOFTWARE The Traveler system includes a standard Mac OS X Core Audio driver for multichannel I/O with any audio application that supports Core Audio. A COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEM...
  • Page 14 A B O U T T H E T R A V E L E R...

  • Page 15: Packing List & Mac 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 & M A C S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S...

  • Page 17: Installing The Traveler Hardware

    2. Turn on the Traveler. Using the Traveler with a mixer ..... . 24 3. Turn on other devices connected to the Traveler.

  • Page 18: 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 19: 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 20: 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 21 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 22 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 23: 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 24: 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 25: Making Sync Connections

    Figure 3-9: 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 26: Do You Need A Synchronizer

    If you have stand-alone digital recorders connected synchronizer? It depends on the nature of the other to the Traveler, and they support ADAT Sync, your devices, and what you want to do with them. You audio software — if it supports MIDI Machine don’t need a synchronizer if the device has a way of...

  • Page 27: Sample-Accurate Sync

    Figure 3-12: 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 28: Sample-Accurate Adat Sync

    Performer or compatible software that also Host software that supports sample-accurate sync. supports sample-accurate sync. Connect the This setup provides: Traveler to the end of the ADAT Sync chain and ✓ Sample-accurate locating between all ADAT SYNC-compati- make the software settings shown below in ble devices, the Traveler and your software (AudioDesk, Digital Performer or other sample-accurate software).

  • Page 29: Sample-Accurate Adat Sync With No Synchronizer

    3. Make sure that Slave to External Sync is checked in the Studio menu. To set the Traveler hardware clock source for sample-accurate sync: 1. In AudioDesk or Digital Performer, choose Configure Audio Macintosh computer running System>Configure Hardware Driver from the Setup menu, or run the...

  • Page 30: 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 31: Syncing To Video And/Or Smpte Time Code Using A

    Figure 3-17: 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 32: Syncing Optical Devices

    Figure 3-18: 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 33: Syncing S/Pdif And Aes/Ebu Devices

    Figure 3-19: 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 34: Syncing Word Clock Devices

    Slave Traveler Figure 3-21: 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 35: 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 36 Audio device, choose the other device from the Clock Source menu in not drift apart from tracks on the other device the MOTU FireWire Audio Console. In this example, the Traveler will during long playback or recording passes. slave to the 828mkII.
  • Page 37 FireWire bus. Operating multiple FireWire interfaces at high sample rates Four MOTU FireWire interfaces can operate at 44.1 or 48kHz on a single FireWire bus. At the 2x samples rates (88.2 or 96kHz) and 4x sample rates (176.4 and 192kHz), you can operate no more than...
  • Page 38 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 39 2 Follow the directions that the installer gives you. the Traveler will appear as a choice for audio inputs and outputs in your software. What does the OS X installer do?

  • Page 40: Installing The Traveler Mac Os X Software

    MIDI communication between your Traveler FireWire interface and all CoreMIDI compatible software. Figure 4-1: The Traveler interface as it appears in the MIDI tab of Audio MIDI Setup. Audio MIDI Setup is a utility included with Connecting MIDI devices to the Traveler Mac OS X that allows you to configure your...
  • Page 41 For details, see chapter 12, “FireWire SMPTE Console” (page 87). Figure 4-3: Connecting devices to the Traveler. In this example, a controller keyboard is connected to the Traveler’s MIDI IN, and a AUDIODESK WORKSTATION SOFTWARE sound module is connected to the Traveler MIDI OUT.
  • Page 42 I N S T A L L I N G T H E T R A V E L E R M A C O S X S O F T W A R E...
  • Page 43 Traveler Settings ........44...

  • Page 44: 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 45 ADAT digital audio synchronization format. It MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital Timepiece, to be the allows the Traveler to slave to an ADAT — or ADAT digital clock master. In this case, you would set the sync chain — via its ADAT sync 9-pin connector.
  • Page 46 MOTU clock provided an optical S/PDIF device connected MIDI Timepiece AV. Word clock can accomplish to the Traveler’s optical input. This setting can be the same thing. used to slave the Traveler directly to the optical input connection.
  • Page 47 For complete details, see “Resolving to other Core audio drivers” on page 36. Figure 5-2: The Mac OS X sound preferences let you use the Traveler for general stereo audio input and output for your Mac. Default Stereo Input/Output...
  • Page 48 Input/Output options do not appear in the MOTU inputs. FireWire Console window. Word Out If you are running a Traveler interface at a high Optical input/output The Optical input and Optical output settings let sample rate (88.2, 96, 176.4 or 192kHz), the Word Out menu appears in the interface tab (as shown in you choose between ADAT optical (‘lightpipe’) and...
  • Page 49 Input/Output options do not appear in the MOTU FireWire Console window, and you’ll see generic port names in your host audio software. Figure 5-4: Traveler channel names as they appear in Digital Performer. Figure 5-3: The Edit Channel Names window.
  • Page 50 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 51: 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 52: 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 53 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 54: Mix Bus

    (or any subset of your choosing) down to All Notes Off one Traveler output pair of your choosing. For The All Notes Off setting sends a MIDI All Notes Off example, you could assign MIX1 to the main outs,...

  • Page 55: 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 56 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 57: Digital Performer

    Setting up your system ......57 The Traveler settings ....... . . 57 Be sure you have enough voices .
  • Page 58 Sample rate microphones, and so on connected to the analog Choose the desired overall sample rate for the inputs of the Traveler. If so, you will often be Traveler system and Digital Performer. Newly mixing their live input with audio material recorded audio in Digital Performer will have this recorded in Digital Performer.
  • Page 59 The Mix1 1-2 input is not available at the 4x sample corresponding trim knob on the front panel of the rates (176.4 or 192kHz). Traveler until peaks in the level meter are as high as possible without clipping (hitting zero dB). ☛...
  • Page 60 If you need to slave Digital Performer and the these offsets will be consistent, and you can Traveler to SMPTE time code, you can do so with compensate for them in Digital Performer. To do or without a dedicated synchronizer.
  • Page 61 Traveler to the synchronizer. For example, in Figure 3-17 on page 31, word clock is Similarly, if you have Tascam recorders and a being used to resolve the Traveler, so the Clock MOTU Digital Timepiece (or other MMC- Source setting is Word Clock In.
  • Page 62 D I G I T A L P E R F O R M E R...

  • Page 63: Audiodesk

    Setting up your system ......63 The Traveler settings ....... . . 63 Be sure you have enough voices .

  • Page 64: Be Sure You Have Enough Voices

    Sample rate Traveler. If so, you will often be mixing their live Choose the desired overall sample rate for the input with audio material recorded in AudioDesk. Traveler system and AudioDesk. Newly recorded See chapter 10, “Reducing Monitoring Latency” audio in AudioDesk will have this sample rate.

  • Page 65: Trimming The Mic/Instrument Inputs

    The Mix1 1-2 input is not available at the 4x sample corresponding trim knob on the front panel of the rates (176.4 or 192kHz). Traveler until peaks in the level meter are as high as possible without clipping (hitting zero dB). ☛...

  • Page 66: Synchronization

    SMPTE time code which you observe a slight offset of one sample — If you need to slave AudioDesk and the Traveler to or maybe a few — caused by inherent latencies in SMPTE time code, you can do so with or without a the devices you are using with the Traveler.

  • Page 67: Midi Machine Control (Mmc)

    Figure 3-17 on page 31, word clock is Similarly, if you have Tascam recorders and a being used to resolve the Traveler, so the Clock MOTU Digital Timepiece (or other MMC- Source setting is Word Clock In. compatible Tascam synchronizer), can control all of your Tascam decks (in ABS time) in a similar ☛...
  • Page 68 Digital Performer, which offers pretty much all of the same features as AudioDesk, along with powerful, state-of-the-art MIDI sequencing. Talk to your authorized MOTU dealer for details about upgrading from AudioDesk to Digital Performer. A U D I O D E S K...

  • Page 69: Logic And Other Mac Os X Software

    “AudioDesk” (page 63). Installing the Traveler Mac OS X drivers ....69 Preparing MIDI input and output ....69 Run the MOTU FireWire Audio Console .

  • Page 70: Choosing The Motu Firewire Core Audio Driver

    In Logic audio, go to the Preferences window, click the Audio icon click the Drivers tab and click the If you wish to slave the Traveler to the ADAT sync Core Audio tab as shown below. Choose the MOTU Input connector, choose ADAT 9-pin. Note that Traveler from the Driver menu.

  • Page 71: Audio Input And Output Names

    See “The ‘Mix1’ input pair” below. ADAT 8 @ 44.1/48kHz 15-22 If the optical bank is Figure 9-3: Enabling the Traveler audio driver in Cubase SX. 4 @ 88.2/96kHz 15-18 set to TOSLink or None, then no ADAT inputs are Other audio software displayed.

  • Page 72: Number Of Channels

    Traveler’s sample-accurate sync features or on- Phones 1-2 board SMPTE sync features. Refer to If you’ve chosen to treat the Traveler headphones as www.motu.com for further developments. an independent output, they appear in your host However, if most applications that support external software as an independent output pair.
  • Page 73 Controlling CueMix DSP from your audio software . . 77 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 74: Reducing Monitoring Latency

    Figure 10-1: 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 75 A buffer is a small amount of computer memory used to hold data. For audio interfaces like the Traveler, buffers are used for the process of transferring audio data in and out of the computer. The size of the buffers determines how much delay...
  • Page 76 How responsive the transport controls are in ■ AudioDesk, Digital Performer or other audio software The buffer setting presents you with a trade-off between the processing power of your computer and the delay of live audio as it is being patched through your software.
  • Page 77 If your host audio software does not support direct CUEMIX DSP HARDWARE MONITORING hardware monitoring, you run CueMix Console The Traveler has a more direct method of patching side-by-side with your audio software and manage audio through the system. This method is called your monitor mix in CueMix Console.
  • Page 78 Controlling CueMix DSP from within AudioDesk track’s input is routed directly to its output (via or Digital Performer CueMix DSP in the Traveler hardware). For To turn on CueMix DSP in AudioDesk and Digital example, if you record-enable a track called guitar...

  • Page 79: Cuemix Console

    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 11-1: CueMix Console is a virtual mixer that gives you control over the Traveler’s on-board mixing features.

  • Page 80: Advantages Of Cuemix Monitoring

    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 81: Shortcuts

    The channel strips to the left of the master fader 1 Select the source mix (Figure 11-1) and choose represent each input in your Traveler. Use the input Copy from the file menu (or press command-C). scroll bar to view additional inputs.

  • Page 82: Preamp Gain, Pad, Reference Level And +6Db Boost

    As explained earlier in “Save/Name Preset” on Figure 11-2 below shows a typical hardware setup page 53, the Traveler can store up to 16 presets in its for Talkback and Listenback. For Talkback, set up a on-board memory. A preset includes of all CueMix...
  • Page 83 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 84: Mix1 Return Includes Computer

    The Mix1 return includes computer item in the CueMix Console File menu refers to the Mix1 bus that the Traveler driver provides as an input to host audio software. This input source delivers the output of CueMix DSP “MIX1” (the first mix bus of...

  • Page 85: Control Surfaces Menu

    CONTROL SURFACES MENU Mackie Control Surfaces CueMix Console includes support for the following CueMix Console can be controlled from an control surface products: automated control surface such as the Mackie Control™. Use the commands in the Control Mackie Control™ ■ Surfaces menu to enable and configure this feature.

  • Page 86: 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 87: Firewire Smpte Console

    Generator section ........89 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 12-1: SMPTE Console gives you access to your Traveler’s on-board SMPTE time code synchronization features.
  • Page 88 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 89 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 90 F I R E W I R E S M P T E C O N S O L E...

  • Page 91: Troubleshooting

    You won't be able to record from the Traveler to a the Traveler while recording or playing back audio. tape deck until it is switched to digital input. Tip: Doing so may cause a brief glitch in the audio.
  • Page 92 ■ printed on a sticker placed on the bottom of the to use the Traveler’s hardware-based CueMix DSP Traveler rack unit. You must be able to supply this monitoring feature. Please see chapter 10, number to receive technical support. “Reducing Monitoring Latency” (page 73).
  • Page 93 +4/-10dB reference level Battery power 12, 21 accessing Traveler settings 58, 69 +6db jack clock source +6dB Boost Bias Peak MMC control .kext Boost Optical input/output 58, 70 58, 64 58, 69 02R mixer Buffer Size sample rate 28, 29...
  • Page 94 Inputs MOTU analog Audio System Reference level optical bit resolution Regenerate S/PDIF (RCA) Fine-tune Audio I/O Timing Registration Installation 60, 66 hardware input/output timing 59, 65 Installer CD Digital Timepiece S/PDIF 39, 43 replacing FireWire Audio Console clock source setting...
  • Page 95 6, 7, 10, 48 TOSLink Word Clock In setting Unbalanced analog 7, 48, 52 clock source setting Word out connecting Follows System 7, 48, 52 Traveler Force 44.1/48kHz Video sync 25, 87 connecting multiple interfaces Volume expansion headphone Yamaha 02R installing...

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