Choosing The Motu Firewire Coreaudio Driver - MOTU 828mkII User Manual

For complete details about the 828mkII settings,
see chapter 6, "MOTU FireWire Control Panel
(Mac OS 9)" (page 47). The following sections
provide a brief explanation of each 828mkII setting
for use with Cubase.
Sample rate
Choose the desired overall sample rate for the
828mkII system and your host audio software.
Newly recorded audio will have this sample rate.
Clock Source
This setting is very important because it
determines which audio clock the 828mkII will
follow.
If you do not have any digital audio connections to
your 828mkII (you are using the analog inputs and
outputs only), and you will not be slaving your host
software to external SMPTE time code, choose
Internal.
If you are slaving the 828mkII to the ADAT sync
Input connector, choose ADAT 9-pin.
If you have digital audio devices connected to the
828mkII, or if you are not sure about the clock
source of your setup, be sure to read "Making sync
connections" on page 22 and "Clock Source" on
page 42.
Optical input and output
To make a 828mkII optical input or output
available in your host software, 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 828mkII setting lets you choose what you'll
hear from the headphone jack. For example, if you
choose Main Outs, the headphones will duplicate
the main outs. Or you can choose any other output
pair. If you choose Phones, this setting makes the
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headphone jack serve as its own independent
output pair. As a result, you'll see Phones 1-2 as an
additional audio destination in your host audio
software's audio output menus.
CHOOSING THE MOTU FIREWIRE
COREAUDIO DRIVER
Once you've made the preparations described so
far in this chapter, you're ready to run your audio
software and enable the MOTU 828mkII
CoreAudio driver. Check the audio system or
audio hardware configuration window in your
software. There will be a menu there that lets you
choose among various drivers that may be in your
system. Choose the MOTU 828mkII from this
menu.
Cubase SX and Nuendo
Go to the Devices menu and choose Device Setup.
Choose the 828mkII CoreAudio driver from the
"ASIO Driver" menu as shown below. Activate the
inputs and outputs within Cubase or Nuendo as
usual. For information about the Audio Buffer Size
setting, see "Adjusting buffer settings under Mac
OS X" on page 91.
Figure 10-2: Enabling the 828mkII audio driver in Cubase SX.
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