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MOTU PCIe ™ 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...
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7. Power Sources - This MOTU interface should be operated only from the type of power source indicated on the marking label. If you are not sure of the type of power supply to your location, consult your local power company.
Contents Quick Reference: PCIe-424 Audio Card About the PCIe-424 System Packing List and Macintosh System Requirements Installing the PCIe-424 Hardware Expanding Your PCIe-424 System...
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(b) rent, lease or grant sublicenses or other rights to the program; (c) permission of MOTU, or if the product serial number has been removed or defaced. provide use of the program in a computer service business, network, time-sharing,...
Quick Reference: PCIe-424 Audio Card Connect the first (core Connect additional MOTU system) interface to PCI audio interfaces here. the PCIe-424 card here You can connect up to using the Audio Wire four I/Os to a PCIe-424 cable included with card for a maximum of 96 your core system.
Audio Wire cable, Up to four MOTU PCI audio interfaces can be connected to expandable to 96 inputs/outputs. A core system consists of a a single PCIe-424 card for a maximum of 96 possible input PCI card connected to a standard 19-inch, single-space, and output connections.
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transfer a single track of material from the ADAT via light Analog bank The analog inputs are equipped with 24-bit, 96 kHz 64x pipe into the 2408mk3’s Macintosh workstation software, oversampling A/D converters. The analog outputs have and then transfer the track back to the ADAT, it will be 24-bit, 96 kHz 128x oversampling D/A converters.
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input to receive SMPTE time code. Any active channel, Level Meters The front panel of the 24I/O displays 48 level meters, digital or analog, can be chosen as a SMPTE time code arranged in three banks of 8 channels. For each channel, output.
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32-bit floating point processing, crossfades, support for many third-party audio plug-ins (in the MOTU Audio System plug-in format), background processing of file-based operations, sample-accurate editing and placement of audio, and more.
AudioDesk software enhancements as soon as they become available. Thank you for taking the time to register your new MOTU products! P A C K I N G L I S T A N D M A C I N T O S H S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S...
Installing the PCIe-424 Hardware CHAPTER OVERVIEW CONNECT THE AUDIO INTERFACE Install the PCIe-424 audio card ..... . 11 1 Plug one end of the Audio Wire cable (included) into the Audio Wire socket next to the 9-Pin ADAT Sync connector Connect the audio interface .
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Step 1 Connect the Audio Wire to the socket closest to the ADAT SYNC port. Step 2 2408mk3 interface 24I/O interface HD192 interface Figure 3-1: Connecting the audio interface to the PCIe-424 audio card. I N S T A L L I N G T H E P C I E - 4 2 4 H A R D W A R E...
Core system interface (#1) details. Figure 4-1: You can connect up to four MOTU PCI audio interfaces to a single PCIe-424 card. Connecting expansion interfaces ....13 MULTIPLE INTERFACES IN THE CONSOLE Multiple interfaces in the Console.
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The entire PCIe-424 system gets its clock from whatever you below in Figure 4-3. If interfaces are configured to share the choose from the Clock Source menu in the MOTU PCI Audio same type of I/O format (analog, for example), their outputs Console window.
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