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- Page 1 ™ User Guide 1280 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Business voice: (617) 576-2760 Business fax: (617) 576-3609 Title Page Web site: www.motu.com Tech support: www.motu.com/support...
- Page 2 The MOTU product is equipped with a three-conductor cord and grounding type plug which has a grounding prong, approved by Underwriters' Laboratories and the Canadian Standards Association. This plug requires a mating three-conductor grounded type outlet as shown in Figure A below. If the outlet you are planning to use for the MOTU product is of the two prong type, DO NOT REMOVE OR ALTER THE GROUNDING PRONG IN ANY MANNER.
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Page 3: Limited Warranty On Hardware
Your right to use the program and the If you discover a defect, first contact MOTU technical support by phone, email or web documentation are limited to the terms and conditions described in the license (motu.com/support) to verify the warranty on your MOTU equipment and obtain a... - Page 4 This equipment has been type tested and found to comply with the limits for a class B If necessary, you can consult a dealer or experienced radio/television technician for digital device, pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to additional assistance.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
16A Front Panel 16A Rear Panel About the 16A Packing List and System Requirements Software Installation Hardware Installation Part 2: Using the 16A Front Panel Operation CueMix Pro Working with Host Audio Software Optical Expander Presets Networking Part 3: Appendices... -
Page 6: Part 1: Getting Started
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Page 7: Quick Start Guide
FOR ALL USERS 6 As shown on the next page, connect speakers to easy steps to get started quickly. the 16A Line Out 1-2, or connect a pair of MAC USERS START HERE headphones to the headphone output on the front 1 Visit motu.com/16A-start to download the... -
Page 8: Typical 16A Setup
A Typical 16A Setup Headphones NOTE: Speakers and monitors Additional 16A’s must be self-powered Main monitors Keyboards and synths I/O expansion Surround speakers Aux monitor Alt monitor Word clock generator/distributor Other word clock device(s) AVB network switch Daisy-chained Thunderbolt display & hard drive... -
Page 9: 16A Front Panel
(8). select knob (2) lets you choose individual mono 3. The PHONES section provides metering, the current 12. The status section displays the 16A’s current operat- channels (e.g. Line In 4). volume setting, and the currently selected signal 7. -
Page 10: 16A Rear Panel
23. Note: you can choose independent formats for Bank A IN 7. These two line out jacks serve as the 16A main output 3. These two NETWORK ports provide industry standard and OUT. For example, you could choose ADAT for the pair for primary (powered) studio monitors, PA speakers IEEE 802.1 (AVB) network connectivity to other network... -
Page 11: About The 16A
USB audio class-compliant, which means that it is iOS compatible and does not require driver The 16A can operate as an audio interface for a installation for USB connection to macOS or iOS computer or iOS device, as a stand-alone digital hosts. - Page 12 96 kHz stereo optical S/PDIF (“TOSLink”) to the output. On-board DSP with mixing and processing The 16A is equipped with a DSP engine that drives Network I/O a 64-input monitor mixer with 32 buses. The AVB stands for Audio Video Bridging, a collection...
- Page 13 I/O. You can access many software package for Mac and Windows that is hardware settings directly from the front panel. available as a free download for you as an 16A owner. Visit motu.com/download to obtain your Flexible headphone output copy.
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Page 14: Packing List And System Requirements
System Requirements PACKING LIST 16A can connect to the host computer via The 16A ships with the items listed below. If any of Thunderbolt (128 channels) or USB4 (128 these items are not present in the box when you channels) for best possible latency performance. -
Page 15: Software Installation
Network access is required for CueMix Pro to communicate with your 16A device, even if it is Software installation for Windows ..... .16 Software installation for iOS . -
Page 16: Software Installation For Windows
CueMix Pro app, available for ASIO Driver support download from the Apple App store. On Windows, to enable the 16A in your ASIO host software, choose the MOTU Pro Audio v2 ASIO If you have an iPad with an Apple silicon (M driver, as shown in Figure 6-1 on page 32. - Page 17 CUEMIX PRO APP CueMix Pro is an easy-to-use app for macOS, Windows and iOS that gives you complete control over all the settings in your 16A interface. For details, see chapter 6, “CueMix Pro” (page 30). PERFORMER LITE WORKSTATION SOFTWARE...
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Page 18: Hardware Installation
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Page 19: Hardware Installation
Lightning to USB cable (optional for powering the iOS device) IF certified Use this setup if you want to use the 16A as an iOS USB C-to-A cable audio interface, or to control it from your iOS device. Use this setup for iOS devices with a USB-C AC power port. -
Page 20: Device Port Setup
16A’s their audio streams from drifting apart from one device port (when the 16A is connected to that another over time. -
Page 21: A Typical 16A Setup
(CV) output. Optical I/O The line outputs are not cross-coupled. The 16A provides two banks of ADAT optical Therefore, when connecting them to an (“lightpipe”) connectors. Each bank provides an unbalanced input, use a TRS plug with the ring input and output connector. -
Page 22: Synchronization
SYNCHRONIZATION TOSLink (optical S/PDIF) Alternately, the Bank A optical ports can be If you connect devices digitally to the 16A, or if configured for stereo TOSLink (optical S/PDIF) in you need to synchronize the 16A with an outside the CueMix Pro app (item #4 on page 34 for input time reference such as word clock, you must pay and item #9 on page 35 for output). -
Page 23: Syncing Optical Devices
Optical. Slave Figure 4-5: Slaving the 16A to word clock. For the 16A clock source, choose ‘Word Clock In’ . H A R D W A R E I N S T A L L A T I O N... -
Page 24: Syncing Avb Devices
WORD CLOCK IN port, Alternately, the word clock output can be and so on. If the 16A is in the middle of the chain, configured as a word clock thru, which connects use its WORD CLOCK OUT port and change its... -
Page 25: Part2 Using The 16A
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Page 26: Front Panel Operation
Power button ......... . 29 information about the 16A. Clock Status Host & Network Status Figure 5-3: The Status section. Figure 5-1: The 16A front panel. -
Page 27: Network Status
Clock Source successfully established on the top or bottom setting (item #6 in the Devices tab on page 33). network port on the rear panel of the 16A. The Sample Rate and Clock Source settings can Network connection status... -
Page 28: Menu Navigation
THE MONITOR GROUP Presets Lets you save and recall device presets, which The 16A Monitor Group allows you to add store the entire state of the interface. Up to eight different presets can be stored. additional analog outputs to be controlled as a... -
Page 29: Power Button
SAVING AND RECALLING DEVICE PRESETS Use the Presets menu command on the front panel of the 16A to save and recall up to eight 16A device presets in the device. A preset saves the entire state of the 16A interface, including all device settings, mixes and effects settings. -
Page 30: Cuemix Pro
The factory default preset ......49 Working with other MOTU AVB interfaces ....50 Firmware Updating. -
Page 31: Discovery Tab
Click a device to detected by CueMix Pro. The 16A is a capable 64 x 32 monitor select it. This is the device that 3. The Home tab provides quick access mixer. See “Mixing tab” on page 37. -
Page 32: Home Tab
This is the same as the the signal reduction amount. click the TALK button and it will knob on the front panel of the 16A, headphone volume knob on the remain on until you click it again. and the Monitor Volume knob in this front panel of the unit (item 1 on 9. -
Page 33: Device Tab
You can then use the source to Internal, unless you have CPU load. See “Buffer Size” on Patchbay (page 36) to route the 2. You can give your 16A a unique other devices connected to the page 17. input streams elsewhere in the 16A Device Name, which appears in the optical inputs. -
Page 34: Inputs Tab
1. This is the tab, which provides access to 3. Meters are provided here for the two Optical Input Input settings for the 16A analog and digital (optical) banks, for convenience. inputs. 4. Configure the Optical Input format for Bank A for 2. -
Page 35: Outputs Tab
4. A/B/C Monitoring lets you connect You can also rename each output. of Analog Outs 1-2, which you the front panel of the 16A and in the two or three sets of speakers and Click the name to type in a custom would connect to your primary Home tab (item #2 on page 32). -
Page 36: Patchbay Tab
Device — Analog and digital both banks. Hold the Ctrl key while (optical) inputs on the 16A device 7. Here, the 16A’s Analog Line In doing so to scroll them relatively. When making or clearing connec- itself. channel 2 is connected to Host In tions, you can use Undo and Redo in 13. -
Page 37: Mixing Tab
For bus horizontally across multiple open (or close) this sidebar. The top to the 16A’s built-in reverb. See channel strips, this shows the name channels to mute them in one three items (Channels, Buses, and “Reverb”... -
Page 38: Aux Mixing Tab
AUX MIXING TAB 1. The Aux Mixing tab provides quick 3. Use the Channels list in the sidebar 6. This is one of 64 input channel strips. 9. This is the Pan control for mono access to the mixer’s 26 aux buses to show or hide input channel strips It provides a send fader and pan input channels. -
Page 39: Input Channel Strips
INPUT CHANNEL STRIPS 1. This displays the source signal for the input. Click it to access basic settings for the channel, such as the source signal and High Pass Filter (HPF). See “Input channel settings” on page 41. 2. Click this channel settings thumbnail to access basic channel settings, like the source signal and High Pass Filter. -
Page 40: Bus Channel Strips
BUS CHANNEL STRIPS 1. The Reverb bus sends input signals to the reverb processor (8). The resulting stereo output from the reverb should be routed to a mixer input, where it can be added to the main mix or any aux mix (via sends). -
Page 41: Input Channel Settings
For channel’s Parametric EQ. example, if you choose a 16A analog 9. This is the currently selected 2. Choose the signal source for the 15. Click Settings to access the basic input, you’ll have access to the input... -
Page 42: Parametric Eq
PARAMETRIC EQ Click any of the items at the top of a 2. Drag the Frequency/Gain handle for 6. Click the “power” icon to enable or for a specific channel above. Click on channel strip (items #1, 3, or 4 on an EQ band to change the frequency disable the EQ band. -
Page 43: Dynamics Processing
DYNAMICS PROCESSING Click any of the items at the top of a 3. Drag the Threshold handle to adjust 7. Click this “x” to close the settings 10. This is the currently selected channel strip (items #1, 3, or 4 on it graphically. -
Page 44: Mix Sends
MIX SENDS Click any of the items at the top of an 2. Click this “x” to close the settings 4. The Mixer pane shows faders for all 5. This is the currently selected input channel strip (items #1, 3, or 4 on and return to the mixer. -
Page 45: Mixer Effects
Each band has an enable/disable button (item #6 on page 42), allowing you to enable as few or as DSP-driven mixing and effects The 16A effects are driven by a powerful DSP that many bands as needed. delivers 32-bit floating point precision and plenty EQ filter controls of bandwidth for no-latency processing. -
Page 46: Gate
GATE COMPRESSOR Threshold handle Threshold Ratio Gain handle handle reduction meter Figure 6-1: The Gate. Figure 6-2: The Compressor. To access the gate, click the compressor/gate To access the compressor, click the compressor/ thumbnail (item #4 on page 39). gate thumbnail (item #4 on page 39). The gate silences the signal when the input signal’s The Compressor lowers the level of the input when level drops below the Threshold. -
Page 47: Reverb
REVERB Predelay Predelay is the amount of time before the acoustic To access the reverb settings: scroll to the Reverb energy from the source returns to the listener, bus (item #1 on page 40) and then click the reverb after reflecting off the surfaces of the listening thumbnail, as shown below. -
Page 48: A/B/C Monitoring
Press and hold the Talk button (Figure 6-6) to the large volume knob (to the right of the LCD) on engage the talkback mic. the front panel of the 16A. This knob controls all three monitor pairs. To adjust their volume Latch... -
Page 49: The Factory Default Preset
Host Out 33-128 AVB Stream 1-12 (8 ch each) THE FACTORY DEFAULT PRESET To restore the factory default settings for the 16A: With this default routing, audio that you play back from your DAW or other host software on Host... -
Page 50: Working With Other Motu Avb Interfaces
Figure 6-8: Go to the Device tab to see if there is a firmware update available. 4 The 16A unit will reboot and the screen will display Update... A progress bar in CueMix Pro Figure 6-7: A MOTU 1248 selected in the sidebar. Basic network-related indicates the time remaining. -
Page 51: The Cuemix Pro Ios App
4 The 16A unit will reboot and the screen will display Update... A progress bar in the Firmware 3 On the 16A front panel, use the MENU knob to Updater app indicates the time remaining. After a navigate to the Network menu setting. -
Page 52: Working With Host Audio Software
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Page 53: Working With Host Audio Software
Sample Rate (kHz) 44.1 / 48 88.2 / 96 176.4 / 192 Thunderbolt/USB4 Figure 7-1: Choosing the MOTU Pro Audio ASIO driver in Cubase. USB3 (driver) USB3 (class) USB2 (driver) USB2 (class) W O R K I N G W I T H H O S T A U D I O S O F T W A R E... -
Page 54: Reducing Monitoring Latency
16A to route the input directly to your outputs. For It is important to note that monitoring delay details, see “Mixing tab” on page 37. The mixer in... - Page 55 Figure 7-3: In Cubase or Nuendo, choose Devices menu > Device Setup. Select your interface (16A), then click the Control Panel button to access the window above and the Buffer Size setting. W O R K I N G W I T H H O S T A U D I O S O F T W A R E...
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Page 56: Loopback
LOOPBACK Loopback is the process of sending audio output from your computer back to the computer so that you can capture the signal in your host software, or stream it live to the web. Figure 7-5: When adjusting the buffer size to reduce monitoring latency, watch the ‘Real time’... -
Page 57: Working With Multiple Interfaces
3 In the Patchbay tab, route any computer output WORKING WITH MULTIPLE INTERFACES If you have multiple 16A interfaces (or other AVB channels you wish to include in the loopback signal to mixer input channels. These computer equipped interfaces), the best way to use them... -
Page 58: Optical Expander Presets
CHAPTER OVERVIEW CHOOSING AN OPTICAL EXPANDER PRESET The 16A has the ability to function as an optical Before you choose an optical expander preset, you expansion interface. You can connect it to other may wish to save the current state of hardware, so optical-equipped devices to route the 16A’s analog... - Page 59 CHANNEL MAPPING AT 88.2 OR 96 KHZ In the CueMix Pro Device tab, be sure that the At 2x sample rates, the 16A’s two optical banks are sample rate setting (item #4 on page 33) for the mapped as follows:...
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Page 60: Overview
About AVB ..........60 MOTU’s AVB implementation......61 Extremely low, predictable latency —... -
Page 61: Networking
Up to 256 channels of host I/O — MOTU AVB Personal studio expansion interfaces (depending on the model) can support Let’s say you have a 16A mounted in a rack next to up to 256 simultaneous channels of audio I/O (128 your computer. You could add an 8M interface... -
Page 62: A Quick Guide To Networking
A QUICK GUIDE TO NETWORKING can stream audio anywhere on the network with MOTU AVB networking has been designed to be near-zero latency, as if any two devices were powerful, yet straightforward to set up and use. -
Page 63: Setting Up The 16A For Networking
Once the 16A is connected to other AVB devices, either directly or via an AVB switch, using network cables as described earlier in this chapter, the 16A can stream audio to and from the other devices on the network. The 16A supports sixteen AVB input streams and sixteen output streams. - Page 64 Connecting an input stream Figure 9-3: Connecting an output stream. To connect a 16A input stream to a stream from 3 Click on the other device in the CueMix Pro another device: sidebar to access its settings (item #10 on page 31).
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Page 65: Routing Audio To/From Network Streams
Clock Source to Internal. Making stream connections in the Patchbay 2 For 16A #2 (the unit connected to #1 with a You can make stream connections in the Patchbay network cable), go to the Device tab AVB Input tab (page 36). -
Page 66: Mapping Computer Channels To Network Streams
DEVICE PRESETS AND AVB STREAM CONNECTIONS Input streams (coming from other devices) are When you save a 16A preset, any AVB stream shown in the network SOURCES bank on the left. connections that it has established with other Expand the stream to view its channels and use the... -
Page 67: Part3 Appendices
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Page 68: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting APPENDIX My 16A isn’t showing up in Audio MIDI Setup on my How do I factory reset my device? Mac. Push SELECT or turn the MENU knob to enter Due to the updated architecture of macOS the main menu. Navigate to RESET and tap the Catalina (10.15) and above, the system extensions... - Page 69 The pages in the manual that refer to the support ticket at any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a features or operation of your MOTU Device or week. A technician will get back to you in 1-2 Performer Lite with which you are having trouble.
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Page 70: Audio Specifications
Audio Specifications APPENDIX Line In Connector Type 1/4” Female, TRS Balanced/unbalanced, Tip hot Specification Complies with EBU-R68 / SMPTE RP-155 Impedance Load 20 k ohm balanced Dynamic Range 120 dB A-weighted THD+N -114 dB 1kHz, 20dBu, 0dB Trim, unweighted Frequency Response ±0.05 dB, 20 Hz-20 kHz Ref. - Page 71 Word Clock In/Out/Thru Specification AES-11 2009 Annex B Connector Type Termination 75 ohm (in/out) THRU is unterminated Lock Range 44.1 kHz / 48kHz, +- 0.5% x1/x2/x4 Input 1 vpp to 3 v p-p (with termination) AC coupled Output 5.0 vpp, (2.5 v p-p terminated) DC coupled Jitter complies with AES3-4-2009...
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Page 72: Index
Index stream format Dim (talkback) ASIO driver switch Direct ASIO monitoring connecting multiple units switches Direct hardware playthru naming syncing AVB devices Disconnect button presets Avid Pro Tools Discovery tab renaming Display setting setup example Driver 7, 15, 16, 30, 31 specifications installation Back button... - Page 73 9, 26, 28, 48 Post-fader aux bus sends 9, 28 Mono button (front panel) Latch 9, 29 Power button MOTU 17, 33, 54, 55 Latency Power supply Digital Performer Latency performance PRE (pre/post aux send faders) Performer Lite...
- Page 74 Select button Windows connection status Serial number 28, 33 latency connectivity Shelf filter (EQ) Word Clock daisy-chaining Show/hide virtual 16A Word clock 10, 13 devices (connecting) SMUX specifications dock (connecting) 7, 15, 16, 30 Software installation synchronization ports Solo...
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