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SONAR AND OTHER WDM SOFTWARE

MAKING SETTINGS IN THE MOTU FIREWIRE

AUDIO CONSOLE

Before you run your audio software, launch the

MOTU FireWire Audio Console to conﬁgure your

896HD hardware. The MOTU FireWire Audio

Console lets you choose the audio clock source,

and it lets you enable the optical input and output,

if needed. For details, see chapter 5, “MOTU

FireWire Audio Console” (page 35).

Figure 7-1: The MOTU FireWire Audio Console gives you access to all

of the settings in the 896HD hardware, including the clock source,

sample rate and optical I/O enable/disable.

For complete details about the 896HD settings, see

chapter 5, “MOTU FireWire Audio Console”

(page 35). The following sections provide a brief

explanation of each 896HD setting for use with

Sonar.

Sample rate

Choose the desired overall sample rate for the

896HD system and Sonar. Newly recorded audio in

Sonar will have this sample rate.

Before running the 896HD at the 4x sample rates,

see “Operation at 4x sample rates (176.4 or

192kHz)” on page 36.

Clock Source

This setting is very important because it

determines which audio clock the 896HD will

follow.

If you do not have any digital audio connections to

your 896HD (you are using the analog inputs and

outputs only), and you will not be slaving Sonar to

external SMPTE time code, choose Internal.

If you are slaving the 896HD to the ADAT Sync or

Word C l o ck i nput connector, choose ADAT 9-pin

or Word Clock In, respectively.

For information about the other clock source

settings, see “Clock Source” on page 37.

If you have digital audio devices connected to the

896HD, see “Making sync connections” on

page 21.

Samples Per Buffer

The Samples Per Buffer setting can be used to

reduce the delay — or monitoring latency — that

you hear when live audio is patched through your

896HD hardware and Sonar. For example, you

might have MIDI instruments, samplers,

microphones, and so on connected to the analog

inputs of the 896HD. If so, you will often be mixing

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