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- Page 1 UltraLite mk3 Hybrid ™ User Guide for Windows 1280 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 Business voice: (617) 576-2760 Business fax: (617) 576-3609 Web site: www.motu.com Tech support: www.motu.com/support...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Quick Reference: UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Front Panel Quick Reference: UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Rear Panel Quick Reference: MOTU Audio Console About the UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Packing List and Windows System Requirements IMPORTANT! Run the UltraLite-mk3 Software Installer First Installing the UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid Hardware... -
Page 7: Quick Reference: Motu Audio Console
From the Windows Start menu, choose ■ Programs>MOTU>MOTU Audio Console . From within Cubase, go to the Device Setup ■ window, click the MOTU Audio ASIO list item and and click the Control Panel button. From within other applications, refer to their ■ documentation. -
Page 9: About The Ultralite-Mk3 Hybrid
About the UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid CHAPTER Overview ..........9 MIDI I/O ■... - Page 10 for quick access to all features in one window. Also All inputs and outputs are discrete and can be provides full-screen real-time FFT display, active simultaneously. spectrogram “waterfall” display, oscilloscope, X-Y The headphone outputs can operate as an plot and linear or polar phase analysis. independent output pair, or they can mirror any With a variety of I/O formats, mic preamps and other UltraLite-mk3 output pair, such as the main...
- Page 11 See “Mic/guitar inputs with preamps” on page 10. frame accuracy. 48V phantom power and pad The included MOTU SMPTE Console™ software See “Mic/guitar inputs with preamps” on page 10. provides a complete set of tools for generating and regenerating SMPTE time code, which allows you Headphone output and main volume control to slave other devices to the computer.
- Page 12 The LCD also provides activity metering for all accurate model of the legendary LA-2A optical UltraLite-mk3 inputs and outputs. compressor, which provides vintage, musical automatic gain control. 16-BIT AND 24-BIT RECORDING The UltraLite-mk3 system handles all data with a CueMix FX also provides 7-band parametric EQ 24-bit signal path, regardless of the I/O format.
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Page 13: Packing List And Windows System Requirements
If any of these items are not present in your two ways to register. UltraLite-mk3 box when you first open it, please Visit www.motu.com/registration to register on ■ immediately contact your dealer or MOTU. line One UltraLite-mk3 I/O rack unit ■ One 6-pin to 6-pin IEEE 1394 “FireWire” cable ■... - Page 14 P A C K I N G L I S T A N D W I N D O W S S Y S T E M R E Q U I R E M E N T S...
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Page 15: Software Installer First
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Page 16: Important! Run The Ultralite-Mk3 Software Installer First
UltraLite-mk3’s MIDI input and output ports. The ports are published in Windows and are available to all MIDI software. Figure 3-1: MOTU Audio Console gives you access to all of the settings in the UltraLite-mk3 hardware. CUEMIX FX This program provides a mixing console that gives ASIO MOTU AUDIO DRIVER you control over the UltraLite-mk3’s no-latency... - Page 17 A typical UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid setup ....25 An example setup for computer-based mixing/FX. Connecting multiple MOTU FireWire interfaces ..26 Connect additional UltraLites or other audio...
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Page 18: Installing The Ultralite-Mk3 Hybrid Hardware
CONNECT THE ULTRALITE-MK3 INTERFACE Your UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid audio interface is equipped with both a FireWire A (400 Mbit/sec) connector and a hi-speed USB2 (480 Mbit/sec) connector, and you can use either port to connect the UltraLite-mk3 to your computer. This gives you maximum flexibility and compatibility with today’s ever-expanding universe of Mac and Windows computers. - Page 19 1.1 and 2.0 devices on separate busses, if possible. For details, refer to the tech support database at www.motu.com. 1 Before you begin, make sure your computer and the UltraLite-mk3 are switched off.
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Page 20: Connect Audio Inputs And Outputs
fine-tuned adjustments in precise 1dB can use either the front panel LCD or the included increments. You can also adjust trim in the MOTU CueMix FX software to adjust the input trim. To CueMix FX software. See “Input trim” on page 67. -
Page 21: Connect Midi Gear
adjust these trims using CueMix FX, see “Input Separate main outs The main outputs operate as an independent pair trim” on page 67. To adjust the trims using the (they don’t share signal with any other output front panel LCD: pair). -
Page 22: Connecting And Syncing S/Pdif Devices
One-way MIDI connections CONNECTING AND SYNCING S/PDIF DEVICES MIDI devices that do not receive MIDI data, such DAT decks and other devices with S/PDIF digital as a dedicated keyboard controller, guitar I/O will sync to the UltraLite-mk3 in via the controller, or drum pad, only need Connection B S/PDIF connection itself. -
Page 23: Power Options
POWER OPTIONS chain should also have their own power supply. In The UltraLite-mk3 can draw power from two general, bus-powered FireWire devices should not possible sources: be daisy-chained. 1. the computer via FireWire, or FireWire adapter products must be powered If you are using a FireWire adapter (a third-party 2. - Page 24 Bus power from a battery-powered laptop does it use? The answer is: the source that is The laptop is being powered by its own battery, and currently supplying the greatest voltage. But in the UltraLite-mk3 is being powered by its FireWire practice, it doesn’t really matter because the only connection to the computer.
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Page 25: A Typical Ultralite-Mk3 Hybrid Setup
A TYPICAL ULTRALITE-MK3 HYBRID SETUP latency monitoring to listen to what you are Here is a typical UltraLite-mk3 studio setup. This recording via the main outs, headphone outs, or rig can be operated without an external mixer. All any other output pair. You can control monitoring mixing and processing can be done in the either from the front panel or from the included computer with audio software. -
Page 26: Connecting Multiple Motu Firewire Interfaces
Clock Multiple interfaces cannot be bus-powered Do not run the UltraLite-mk3 under bus power Source menu in the General tab in MOTU Audio when connecting it with other devices to the same Console. When you connect multiple MOTU FireWire bus. - Page 27 Managing the IDs of multiple interfaces Multiple UltraLite-mk3 interfaces are identified by Figure 4-12: All MOTU FireWire audio interfaces get their clock from a number (#1, #2, #3, etc.) Interfaces are ID’d (given single master sync source on any connected UltraLite-mk3 (or other a number) by the order in which they are first...
- Page 28 I N S T A L L I N G T H E U L T R A L I T E - M K 3 H Y B R I D H A R D W A R E...
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Page 29: Accessing The Ultralite-Mk3 Settings
MOTU Audio ASIO from the Master ASIO Driver to a specific UltraLite-mk3 interface. If you have menu as shown below. Then click the MOTU Audio several UltraLites (or other MOTU FireWire audio ASIO item in the list and click the Control Panel interfaces) connected, you’ll see a separate tab for... -
Page 30: Motu Audio Console
The following sections briefly discuss each clock source setting. Figure 5-1: MOTU Audio Console gives you access to all of the settings in the UltraLite-mk3 hardware. M O T U A U D I O C O N S O L E... -
Page 31: Samples Per Buffer
CPU bandwidth for things like real- jack. For details, see “Syncing to SMPTE time time effects processing. On the other hand, if you code” on page 106and chapter 11, “MOTU SMPTE increase the Samples Per Buffer, you reduce the load Console” (page 103). -
Page 32: Wave Support For Legacy (Mme) Software
As another example, you could use the stereo return bus to capture tracks played from your host Enable Pedal This setting applies to other MOTU FireWire audio software, along with live inputs being routed interfaces, but it does not apply to the directly through the UltraLite-mk3 hardware via UltraLite-mk3. -
Page 33: Disable Interface
To get MOTU Audio Console to forget about an interface entirely, you’ll see a Forget button in MOTU Audio Console. Just click the Forget button and MOTU Audio Console will no longer consider the interface to be present but off line (turned off). - Page 34 M O T U A U D I O C O N S O L E...
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Page 35: Push-Button Rotary Encoders
UltraLite-mk3 Hybrid CHAPTER Front Panel Operation OVERVIEW POWER SWITCH The UltraLite-mk3 offers complete front-panel Push the VOL knob to power on the programming via four rotary encoders and a 2x16 UltraLite-mk3. Push in and hold the VOL knob to backlit LCD display. All UltraLite-mk3 settings can turn it off. -
Page 36: Ultralite-Mk3 Hybrid Front Panel Operation
PHONES MAIN OUT VOLUME From the factory, the PHONES jack (Figure 6-1) is Push the VOL knob twice to view and control the a discrete output at 44.1/48 kHz, but it can mirror volume of the main outs on the rear panel. any other output pair (digital or analog) or serve as its own independent output. -
Page 37: Multi-Function Lcd Display
Push the PARAM knob to cycle the LCD among setting cannot be changed from the front-panel LCD. It must be four global display modes: changed in MOTU Audio Console instead. Or, you can disconnect the UltraLite-mk3 from the computer to change the Clock Source from the front panel. -
Page 38: Cuemix Menu
wish to save it to (1-16), and the push again to CUEMIX MENU To access the CUEMIX menu, push the PARAM confirm the save. To cancel the save operation at knob until you see CUEMIX displayed in the LCD. any time, turn the PARAM knob. This menu displays the settings for the Load Preset UltraLite-mk3 CueMix FX mixer. - Page 39 The IN (inputs) menu channel strip in CueMix FX (Figure 10-3 on Push the CHANNEL button repeatedly until you page 66), as well as the settings in the Channel tab see “I:” in the channel section of the LCD (Figure 10-8 on page 70). (Figure 6-6).
- Page 40 The OUT (Outputs) menu The MIX (Mixes) menu Push the CHANNEL button repeatedly until you Push the CHANNEL button repeatedly until you see “O:” in the channel section of the LCD see “MIX 1” (or “MIX 2”, etc.) in the channel (Figure 6-7).
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Page 41: Inputs Menu
REVERB — these are the reverb send and return INPUTS MENU ■ controls for the bus master fader. Access them with CHANNEL PAGE PARAM the PARAMETER knob. INPUTS INPUT PAIR mic 1-2 PHASE Individual channels — once you scroll past ■... -
Page 42: Outputs Menu
OUTPUTS MENU MIXES MENU CHANNEL PAGE PARAM CHANNEL PAGE PARAM OUTPUTS ENABLE MIXES MASTER ASSIGN Main (global) COPY Mix 1 MUTE Analog 1-2 PASTE Mix 2 FADER Analog 3-4, etc. RESET etc. COPY PASTE ENABLE RESET (High-pass) SLOPE FREQ REVERB SEND RETURN ENABLE... -
Page 43: What Is Asio
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Page 44: Cubase, Nuendo, Live And Other Asio Software
ASIO 2.0 sample-accurate positioning protocol in order to support the UltraLite-mk3’s direct SMPTE sync (and sample-accurate sync) feature. Figure 7-1: MOTU Audio Console gives you access to all of the settings Samples Per Buffer in the UltraLite-mk3 hardware, including the clock source and The Samples Per Buffer setting can be used to sample rate. -
Page 45: Choosing The Motu Asio Driver
Phones 1-2 as an additional audio destination in click the Audio tab. Choose ASIO from the Driver Cubase or Nuendo’s audio output menus. Type menu. Choose the MOTU Audio ASIO from Main Out Assign the Audio Device menu as shown below in Use the Main Out Assign setting to determine what Figure 7-3. -
Page 46: Direct Monitoring
Sound Forge OTHER SYSTEM DIALOG SETTINGS To activate the MOTU Audio ASIO driver in Sound Consult your Cubase or Nuendo documentation Forge, go to the Preferences window, click the for details about the rest of the settings in this Audio tab, and then choose MOTU Audio from the dialog. -
Page 47: Viewing And Managing Ultralite-Mk3 Outputs
☛ Warning: the Return inputs can cause PROCESSING LIVE INPUTS WITH HOST- BASED VST PLUG-INS feedback loops! DO NOT assign this input to a If you patch a live input (such as MIDI synthesizer) track that shares the same UltraLite-mk3 output through a VST plug-in effect in Cubase, you might pair as the returns. -
Page 48: 24-Bit Operation
24-BIT OPERATION Your UltraLite-mk3 hardware fully supports Cubase and Nuendo’s 24-bit recording capabilities. Simply enable 24-bit operation as instructed in your Cubase or Nuendo manual. The UltraLite-mk3 always supplies a 24-bit data stream, and when you enable 24-bit operation in Cubase or Nuendo, it simply uses all 24-bits supplied by the UltraLite-mk3 hardware. -
Page 49: Wdm And Wave Driver Compatibility
Making settings in MOTU Audio Console ... . 50 compatibility in the MOTU WDM Driver so that Enabling the MOTU Audio WDM driver ....51 all of the UltraLite-mk3’s inputs and outputs show Working with UltraLite-mk3 inputs and outputs. -
Page 50: Sonar And Other Wdm Software
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Page 51: Enabling The Motu Audio Wdm Driver
2 Choose any UltraLite-mk3 input and output for recording and playback timing as shown below in Figure 8-5. It doesn’t matter which ones. Figure 8-3: Activating the MOTU Audio WDM driver in SONAR by highlighting UltraLite-mk3 inputs and outputs. Enabling the MOTU ASIO driver in SONAR As an alternative to the UltraLite-mk3’s WDM... -
Page 52: Working With Ultralite-Mk3 Inputs And Outputs
Use the Return Assign menu in through a plug-in effect in SONAR, you might hear MOTU Audio Console to choose which output a slight delay. There are several ways to reduce this pair you would like to hear on this return. This can delay. -
Page 53: 24-Bit Operation
input source and output destination in your WDM-compatible software’s MIDI input and output menus. 24-BIT OPERATION Your UltraLite-mk3 hardware fully supports 24-bit recording in any audio software that supports it. Simply enable 24-bit operation as instructed by the software. The UltraLite-mk3 system always supplies the software with a 24-bit data stream, and when you enable 24-bit operation, it simply uses all 24-bits supplied by the UltraLite-mk3 hardware. - Page 54 S O N A R A N D O T H E R W D M S O F T W A R E...
- Page 55 Reducing Monitoring Latency CHAPTER OVERVIEW It is important to note that monitoring delay has no Monitoring latency is that slight delay you hear effect on when audio data is recorded to disk or when you run an input signal through your host played back from disk.
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Page 56: Reducing Monitoring Latency
UltraLite-mk3-based effects processing (EQ, compression or reverb). See “CueMix FX 1. Live input (from mic, guitar, etc.) enters the MOTU interface. 3. Mic signal is ‘patched thru’ back to the audio interface with reverb or other 2. - Page 57 Console, as shown in Figure 9-3 via the Samples Per Buffer setting. Figure 9-3: Lowering the ‘Samples Per Buffer’ setting in MOTU Audio Console reduces patch thru latency. But doing so increases the processing load on your computer, so keep an eye on the Perfor- mance Monitor in your host audio software.
- Page 58 Lower latency versus higher CPU overhead CUEMIX FX HARDWARE MONITORING The buffer setting has a large impact on the The UltraLite-mk3 has a more direct method of following things: patching audio through the system. This method is called CueMix FX. When enabled, CueMix Patch thru latency ■...
- Page 59 Using CueMix FX mixes you’ve set up in CueMix FX. For example, if If your host audio software does not support direct your host application routes audio to an output hardware monitoring, you run CueMix FX side- pair that is already being used in CueMix FX for an by-side with your audio software and manage your entirely separate mix bus, both audio streams will monitor mix in CueMix FX.
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Page 61: Cuemix Fx
CueMix FX CHAPTER OVERVIEW A 16-BUS MIXER WITH EQ, COMPRESSION AND REVERB CueMix FX is a cross-platform software All UltraLite-mk3 inputs and outputs can be application that provides graphic, on-screen routed to the on-board CueMix FX 16-bus (8 control for the UltraLite-mk3’s flexible CueMix FX stereo bus) digital mixer driven by hardware-based on-board mixer and effects processing. -
Page 62: Advantages Over Host-Based Mixing And Processing
Each input, output and mix bus provides a send to CueMix mixing and effects processing imposes ■ the Classic Reverb processor, which then feeds no processor drain on the computer’s CPU. reverb returns to mix busses and outputs, with a CueMix routing can be maintained ■... -
Page 63: Cuemix Fx Basic Operation
CUEMIX FX BASIC OPERATION processor. These settings are applied to the signal Here is a brief overview of the CueMix FX mixer. before it goes anywhere else (to a mix bus or the computer). Eight stereo mix busses CueMix provides eight stereo mix busses: Bus 1, Output channels Bus 2, Bus 3, and so on. -
Page 64: The Mixes Tab
THE MIXES TAB Assigning a mix bus output Click the Mixes tab (Figure 10-2) to gain access to Choose the desired output pair for the mix bus from the bus output menu (Figure 10-2). The bus the UltraLite-mk3’s eight stereo mix busses. The output menu displays all current available Mixes tab displays one mix bus at a time. - Page 65 Bus mute Input pan section The bus mute button (Figure 10-2) disables The input pan knob (Figure 10-2) pans the input (silences) the mix. across the bus stereo outputs. If the input itself is grouped as a stereo pair (in the Inputs tab), two Bus level meter forms of panning control are provided: The bus level meter, which is post-fader, shows you...
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Page 66: The Inputs Tab
THE INPUTS TAB only exception to this is the reverb send, which The UltraLite-mk3 provides many features for simply splits the input signal and feeds a copy of it managing analog and digital input signals. Some of to the UltraLite-mk3’s reverb processor. these features, such as the UltraLite-mk3’s digitally Signal flows from top to bottom controlled analog trims, are implemented in the... - Page 67 Invert phase allowing you to click and drag directly on the The Phase button (Figure 10-3) inverts the phase of graphic. For details see “The channel settings the input signal. For stereo pairs, you can invert the section” on page 70. phase for the left and right channels independently.
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Page 68: The Outputs Tab
then be fed back into a mix or output pair. The send Compressor Compressor Compressor graph meter selector occurs after all other settings in the input channel strip (phase invert, EQ, compression, etc.) THE OUTPUTS TAB The Outputs tab (Figure 10-6) lets you apply EQ, dynamics and reverb to any output pair, just before the signal leaves the UltraLite-mk3. - Page 69 reverb Split Point is set to Mix to eliminate the Monitor group assign Click the Monitor buttons (Figure 10-6) to toggle possibility for feedback loops created by reverb whether the output pair is included in the Monitor send/return loops. See “Split point” on page 83. group.
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Page 70: The Channel Settings Section
THE CHANNEL SETTINGS SECTION The Channel tab The Channel tab (Figure 10-8) displays settings for The channel settings section in the CueMix FX input channels. Click any focus button in the window (Figure 10-1) displays three tabs for Inputs tab to view the Channel tab settings for the Channel, EQ and Dynamics settings for the channel. - Page 71 Stereo settings mono input), use the reverb Pan knob Inputs that have been grouped as stereo pairs in the (Figure 10-8) to pan the mono signal for the stereo Inputs tab (Figure 10-3) provide two stereo modes reverb processor. (Figure 10-8): Normal and M/S. M/S mode Input meter and bus activity LEDs provides decoding for a mid-side microphone When the Channel tab is active (Figure 10-8), the...
- Page 72 The EQ tab display provides comprehensive control and visual The EQ tab (Figure 10-10) displays the EQ settings feedback of the EQ curve being applied. With for the input or output channel that currently has 64-bit floating point processing, the UltraLite-mk3 the focus.
- Page 73 Composite curve (white line): shows the overall Vintage EQ Quick reference Filter response display: Shows the response curve response curve of the current settings in the for the current settings. window. Vertical scale: Lets you zoom the vertical scale of Individual filter curve: Each filter has a color the filter response display.
- Page 74 Adjusting filters in the display FFT curve Each filter has a handle, displayed as shown below in Figure 10-12 (in the filter’s color), for adjusting its boost/cut and/or frequency: Filter handle Filter Q Figure 10-13: FFT display. (red line) The FFT curve is post-filter. Therefore, the FFT shows the results of the EQ filter(s) being applied.
- Page 75 Using the full window filter display The info box Choose Show Full Window Analysis from the Filter The Show Info Box item in the full graph display display options menu (Figure 10-10) to fill the options menu (Figure 10-16) lets you display the entire CueMix FX window with the filter EQ coordinates of any EQ filter point as you drag it in display for detailed inspection and adjustment of...
- Page 76 EQ filters The following sections describe the character of The EQ filters have three parameters: each type of EQ filter and their suggested applications. In the illustrations for each filter style Control unit range (Figure 10-18 through Figure 10-21), the settings Gain -20.00 to +20.00 for the three example curves are the same for the...
- Page 77 Type II Type III Figure 10-19: Type II EQ filter style. Figure 10-20: Type III EQ filter style. The Type II EQ filter produces constant Q response The Type III EQ filter increases Q as boost is during boost or cut. The Type II style emulates applied.
- Page 78 Type IV Shelf filters Figure 10-21: Type IV EQ filter style. The Type IV EQ filter is a more extreme form of the Type III filter. It exhibits a high degree of interaction between Q and gain in order to maintain as closely as possible an equal amount of area under the response curve as gain is adjusted.
- Page 79 response corresponds to a second order shelf, still Overshoot tends to produce more of what one with no overshoot. This is the same response as would expect to hear when applying shelving and conventional parametric EQs. In some situations, is therefore considered to be more musical than this form of accurate, clean shelving can sound shelving without overshoot.
- Page 80 The Dynamics tab Compressor The Compressor (Figure 10-26) lowers the level of The Dynamics tab (Figure 10-26) displays the Dynamics processing settings for the input or the input when it is above the threshold. The output channel that currently has the focus. Click amount of attenuation is determined by the Ratio any focus button in the Inputs or Outputs tab to and the input level.
- Page 81 Output level Automatic gain control using light The Output Level meter (Figure 10-26) displays the The the Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuit of peaks of the output signal. Trim is applied before the LA-2A uses a vintage opto-coupler known by the Output Level meter.
- Page 82 It is precisely this self-adjusting behavior that The Meters tab The Meters tab (Figure 10-27) serves as a makes optical compressors the tool of choice for comprehensive meter bridge for all inputs, outputs smoothing out vocals, bass guitar and full- and mix busses in the UltraLite-mk3.
- Page 83 displaying an input meter). Click Pre to view levels Routing inputs, busses and outputs to the reverb processor before any input channel processing besides trim; The reverb processor is a single, independent unit click Post to view levels after all channel processing that provides stereo reverb.
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Page 84: The Monitor Group
Output types of spaces. The Size and Level parameters let When the Split Point is set to Output, the sends in you control the size of the room and the strength of Output tab become active and the returns in the the initial reflections. -
Page 85: Dsp Meter
Assigning outputs to the monitor group EQ on a stereo channel requires approximately Any combination of outputs can be assigned to the twice the DSP resources as the same EQ on a mono monitor group. To include an output pair in the channel. - Page 86 only occurs when talkback or listenback is Control room engaged. Audio playing back from disk (your host Talkback software) is not affected. Main outs Talk dim Outs (front panel mic input) Live room Headphone distribution amp Listenback Listen dim Figure 10-30: Typical hardware setup for Talkback and Listenback. Figure 10-31: The Talkback/Listenback controls.
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Page 87: Shortcuts
The Mix1 return includes computer File menu item Shift key Applies your action to all inputs or all out- puts in the mix. applies to other MOTU interfaces products and has no effect on the UltraLite-mk3. Control key Applies your action to the stereo input pair, even when it is currently configured as mono. -
Page 88: Devices Menu
DEVICES MENU OSCILLOSCOPE If you are working with more than one MOTU The Oscilloscope (Figure 10-33) graphs the audio interface product, this menu displays all amplitude of an audio signal over time. interfaces that are currently on line. Choose any... - Page 89 Horizontal controls (time axis) The Horizontal controls (Figure 10-35) configure Pause button the value range of the x-axis (time). Click and drag View menu the values up or down to set them, or double-click to return to the default value. There are two modes for the controls: Zoom/Offset Figure 10-34: View controls Min/Max.
- Page 90 In Min/Max mode, Min and Max set the smallest response to specific conditions in the signal. The and largest displayed amplitude. Trigger section defines that criteria and how the graph will display the events that match. Waveform Recognition The Waveform Recognition option searches Trigger indicator through new audio data looking for a waveform Trigger menu...
- Page 91 Enabling the Magnitude check box tells the trigger Trigger indicator The Trigger indicator (Figure 10-37 on page 90) to look for both positive and negative Level values, displays the state of the trigger, and also provides a regardless of whether the Level value is positive or way to manually interact with it.
- Page 92 Viewing transients such as drum hits To adjust the left and right edges of the If you loop a snare hit or other similar transient measurement area, click and drag the blue bars in audio clip and feed it through the oscilloscope, you the graph, or click and drag the blue numbers in can more or less “freeze”...
- Page 93 If you are building a synth patch on a synthesizer Monitoring control voltage output from Volta (or forming similar highly periodic audio MOTU’s Volta instrument plug-in for Mac OS X material), you can run the audio signal through the turns your audio interface into a control voltage...
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Page 94: X-Y Plot
X-Y PLOT The higher the meter, the higher the correlation The X-Y Plot window (Figure 10-40) graphs the between the two channels. Below are a few amplitude of a stereo audio signal on a two- examples: dimensional grid. Situation Meter X-Y Plot graph Mathematical level... - Page 95 ☛ Choosing a channel pair to display Line mode is significantly more CPU intensive The X-Y Plot follows the currently focused audio than Scatter. You can reduce Line mode CPU input or output. If you focus a mono channel (e.g. overhead on the X-Y Plot by reducing the Length Analog 3), its corresponding stereo pair will be parameter (described below).
- Page 96 In Min/Max mode, Min and Max let you scale the Using the X-Y Plot The X-Y Plot helps you “see” the width of the stereo grid by moving the -1.0 and +1.0 points along the field of a mix. It also helps you determine if a mix axis.
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Page 97: Phase Analysis
PHASE ANALYSIS Choosing a channel pair to display The Phase Analysis window (Figure 10-46 on The Phase Analysis window follows the currently focused audio input or output. If you focus a mono page 97) graphs frequency versus phase difference channel (e.g. Analog 3), its corresponding stereo versus amplitude of a stereo signal on either pair will be displayed (Analog 3–4). - Page 98 A/B (stereo audio channels) Linear is better for viewing high frequencies; The View section (Figure 10-47) displays the pair logarithmic is better for viewing low frequencies. of input or output audio channels you are viewing. Rectangular/Polar See “Choosing a channel pair to display” above. Choose either Rectangular or Polar from the menu Line/Scatter in the View section (Figure 10-47) to control how...
- Page 99 Max delta theta Horizontal and vertical controls The Horizontal and Vertical controls Max delta theta (Figure 10-52) only affects Line (Figure 10-51) let you scale each axis of the grid view (see “Line/Scatter” on page 98) and sets the and offset its zero point. Click and drag the values maximum difference in frequency between plot up or down to set them, or double-click to return points in the line plot.
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Page 100: Configurations Menu
Checking for phase issues in stereo tracks outside the critical frequency range of the You can use the Phase Analysis window to check instrument being recorded, you can avoid phase the overall polarity of a stereo mix. Figure 10-54 is problems among the mic signals. -
Page 101: Talkback Menu
(last loaded or saved) configuration has a will hear on the headphone output, just like the check mark next to it. Phones setting in MOTU Audio Console. However, this menu provides one extra option that is Modifying a configuration exclusive to CueMix FX: Follow Active Mix. - Page 102 Enabled that is not currently being displayed, CueMix FX Check this menu item to turn on control surface will jump to the appropriate tab to display the operation of CueMix FX. Uncheck it to turn off control you are adjusting. control surface support.
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Page 103: Motu Smpte Console
To resolve the UltraLite-mk3 to SMPTE time code, MOTU SMPTE Setup ....... . 103 choose the SMPTE / SMPTE setting in the Clock/ Clock/Address . -
Page 104: Reader Section
auto-detect and switch to the incoming frame rate, Freewheel Address Freewheeling occurs when there is a glitch or except that it cannot distinguish between 30 fps drop-out in the incoming time code for some and 29.97 fps time code, or 23.976 and 24 fps time reason. -
Page 105: Generator Section
Figure 11-3 on page 106. Make sure the SMPTE time code being generated by the Clock Source setting in the MOTU Audio Console UltraLite-mk3. The level knob disappears when window is set to SMPTE. Also, make sure that the Destination is set to None. -
Page 106: Syncing To Smpte Time Code
FireWire cable Windows computer running Cubase or other sample-accurate ASIO software Launch the MOTU SMPTE Console and specify the SMPTE Source, which is the interface receiving the SMPTE time code. Also, confirm that the Clock Source/Address is SMPTE/SMPTE. Figure 11-3: Connections for synchronizing the UltraLite-mk3 directly to SMPTE time code. -
Page 107: Performance Tips & Troubleshooting
Try removing all devices except the Programs Control Panel then restart. Reinstall the UltraLite-mk3. UltraLite-mk3 software and choose only to install the MOTU ASIO driver, not the WDM Driver. Connecting or powering gear during operation Restart again. It is not recommended that you connect/ disconnect, or power on/off devices connected to ‘New hardware detected’... - Page 108 fill out and mail the registration card included with your 8pre. Doing so entitles you to A brief explanation of the problem, including the ■...
- Page 109 Copy/Paste listenback settings Audio Setup software Hardware Follows CueMix Stereo Mixer AudioDesk Settings output jacks MOTU 828mk3 settings Load Hardware Preset overview 61, 63 AutoSave Status Mix1 return includes computer Phones menu Peak/Hold Time Share surfaces with other applica-...
- Page 110 Audio System monitor group naming/saving in LCD bit resolution 80, 81 Leveler MOTU Audio Limit button ASIO driver Listenback MOTU Audio Console button (channel tab) MOTU Audio Setup button (Outputs tab) MOTU SMPTE Setup Ratio explained Multiple interfaces compressor Live...
- Page 111 Registration Spectrogram menu 86, 101 Release Show X-Axis Linear Scale settings 74, 75 Dynamics Show/Hide Full Window Analysis Tech support contact info Return Assign Signal flow (CueMix FX mixer) Technical support Cubase/Nuendo SMPTE Threshold SONAR overview dynamics 103, 106 Reverb Setup application Time code sync design section...