Digital Performer; Setting Up Your System; The 828Mkii Settings - MOTU 828mkII User Manual

Digital Performer

CHAPTER 8
OVERVIEW
This chapter provides a brief overview of Digital
Performer's basic I/O and synchronization
operation with the 828mkII hardware. This
chapter covers both DP3 with Mac OS 9 and DP4
with Mac OS X.
Setting up your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
The 828mkII settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Be sure you have enough voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
24-bit operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Fine-tuning I/O timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
MIDI Machine Control (MMC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
MIDI I/O via the 828mkII MIDI ports. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Processing live inputs with plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Using a foot switch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Exchanging projects with AudioDesk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Sound Manager and Digital Performer (OS 9 only) . . 64

SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM

As described in chapter 4, "Installing the 828mkII
Macintosh Software" (page 35), the Digital
Performer and MOTU 828mkII 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 (or FreeMIDI Setup
under Mac OS 9).
THE 828MKII SETTINGS
828mkII settings in Mac OS 9
In Mac OS 9, the 828mkII settings can be accessed
by choosing MOTU Audio System
options>Configure Hardware Driver from the
Basics menu. This is where you choose the
828mkII as your audio input output device. Once
you've done so, you should see the 828mkII
settings as shown below in Figure 8-1.
Figure 8-1: The 828mkII settings.
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