Digital Performer - MOTU Traveler User Manual

Digital Performer

CHAPTER 7
OVERVIEW
This chapter provides a brief overview of Digital
Performer's basic I/O and synchronization
operation with the Traveler hardware.
Setting up your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
The Traveler settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Be sure you have enough voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Trimming the mic/instrument inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Working with Traveler inputs and outputs . . . . . . . . . . . 59
24-bit operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Fine-tuning I/O timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
MIDI Machine Control (MMC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
MIDI I/O via the Traveler MIDI ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Processing live inputs with plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Exchanging projects with AudioDesk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM
As described in chapter 4, "Installing the Traveler
Mac OS X Software" (page 39), the Digital
Performer and MOTU Traveler software installers
will properly install and update everything for you.
If you are using a MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital
Timepiece for synchronization, be sure they are
present in Audio MIDI setup.
THE TRAVELER SETTINGS
Choose the Traveler as your audio input output
device by choosing Configure Audio
System>Configure Hardware Driver from the Setup
menu. This window shows some of the Traveler
settings, such as sample rate and clock source, but
to access all of the Traveler settings, open the
MOTU FireWire Audio Console, as shown in
Figure 5-1 on page 44.
Figure 7-1: Choose Setup menu> Configure Audio System> Configure
Hardware Driver to open the dialog shown above and access the
Traveler Core Audio driver. To access the rest of the Traveler settings,
open the MOTU FireWire Audio Console.
For complete details about the Traveler settings, see
chapter 5, "MOTU FireWire Audio Console"
(page 43). The following sections provide a brief
explanation of each Traveler setting for use with
Digital Performer.
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