Be Sure You Have Enough Voices - MOTU Traveler User Manual

Sample rate
Choose the desired overall sample rate for the
Traveler system and AudioDesk. Newly recorded
audio in AudioDesk will have this sample rate.
Imported audio or soundbites in existing files that
do not match this sample rate will be displayed in
the Soundbites window with a red 'X' on its move
handle to indicate that it cannot be played.
Before running the Traveler at the 4x sample rates,
see "Operation at 4x sample rates (176.4 or
192kHz)" on page 44.
Clock Source
This setting is very important because it
determines which audio clock the Traveler will
follow.
If you do not have any digital audio connections to
your Traveler (you are using the analog inputs and
outputs only), and you will not be slaving
AudioDesk to external SMPTE time code, choose
Internal.
If you are slaving the Traveler to the ADAT sync
Input connector, choose ADAT 9-pin.
If you are slaving the Traveler and AudioDesk to
SMPTE time code via the Traveler itself, choose
SMPTE and follow the directions in "Syncing to
SMPTE time code" on page 30.
If you have digital audio devices connected to the
Traveler, or if you are not sure about the clock
source of your setup, be sure to read "Making sync
connections" on page 25 and "Clock Source" on
page 44.
Buffer Size
The Buffer Size setting can be used to reduce the
delay — or monitoring latency — that you hear
when live audio is patched through your Traveler
hardware and AudioDesk. For example, you might
have MIDI instruments, samplers, microphones,
and so on connected to the analog inputs of the
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Traveler. If so, you will often be mixing their live
input with audio material recorded in AudioDesk.
See chapter 10, "Reducing Monitoring Latency"
(page 73) for complete details.
Optical input and output
To make a Traveler optical input or output available
in AudioDesk, choose the appropriate format
(ADAT optical or TOSLink) from the optical input
and/or output menu. If you won't be using the
optical connectors, turn them off.
Phones
This Traveler setting lets you choose what you'll
hear from the headphone jack. For example, if you
choose Analog 1-2, the headphones will duplicate
the main outs. Or you can choose any other output
pair. If you choose Phones, this setting makes the
headphone jack serve as its own independent
output pair. As a result, you'll see Phones 1-2 as an
additional audio destination in AudioDesk's audio
output menus.

BE SURE YOU HAVE ENOUGH VOICES

Go to the Setup menu and choose Configure Audio
System>Configure Studio Size. Then check to make
sure you have enough mono and stereo audio
voices to cover the 20 channels of input and 22
channels of output provided by your Traveler —
although the number of channels may depend on
how your Traveler is configured:
10 channels for analog I/O (including the
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headphone out)
2 channels for RCA S/PDIF
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2 channels for AES/EBU
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Zero, 2 or 8 channels for optical, depending on
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whether you have optical turned off, or set to
TOSLink or ADAT optical
For example, if you are using analog only, you only
need 10 channels. If you are using analog and RCA
S/PDIF, you need 12 channels.
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