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SONAR AND OTHER WDM SOFTWARE

3 In the General tab, click the Wave Proﬁler

button and run the Wave Proﬁler.

This process chooses the optimum settings for the

896HD hardware.

Figure 7-4: Running the Wave Proﬁler in Cakewalk’s SONAR.

NUMBER OF CHANNELS

In the Audio Options window (Figure 7-3), be sure

to choose enough Virtual Mains in the General tab

to cover the 18 channels of input and 22 channels of

output provided by your 896HD — although the

number of channels may depend on how your

896HD is conﬁgured:

■ 12 channels for analog I/O (including the

headphone out)

■ 2 channels for AES/EBU

■ Zero or 8 channels for optical, depending on

whether you have optical turned off or set to ADAT

optical

For example, if you are using analog only, the

896HD requires a minimum of 12 voices (for 12

channels of output). If you are using analog and

AES/EBU, you need 14 voices.

As another example, if you are using analog,

AES/EBU and ADAT optical, you need 22 voices

(the maximum number of simultaneous output

channels provided by the 896HD).

OTHER AUDIO OPTIONS

Consult your sonar documentation for details

about the rest of the settings in this dialog.

WORKING WITH 896HD INPUTS AND

OUTPUTS

Once you’ve enabled the 896HD inputs and

outputs in the Drivers tab of the Audio Options

window (Figure 7-2 on page 55), 896HD audio

inputs and outputs will appear in Sonar’s input/

output menus, and you can set them up and use

them as any standard audio input and output. If

you don’t see the optical inputs and/or outputs,

check the MOTU FireWire Audio Console to make

sure they are turned on and set to the format you

need. If you don’t plan to use the optical input or

output, turn it off to conserve computer

bandwidth.

Trimming the analog inputs

The 896HD analog inputs provide trim knobs on

the front panel. To calibrate an audio input, feed

signal to the input, and adjust the input’s

corresponding trim knob on the front panel of the

896HD until peaks in the level meter are as high as

possible without clipping (hitting zero dB).

The “Mix1 1-2” input

In Sonar’s Input Drivers list, you’ll see an 896HD

input called Mix1 1-2. This input source delivers

the output of CueMix DSP “Mix 1” (the ﬁrst mix

bus of the four on-board no-latency monitor mixes

in the 896HD) to your computer. This input serves,

for example, as a convenient way for you to record

the 896HD’s Mix 1 monitor mix into Sonar (for

reference and archiving purposes). Further, if you

are sending audio from Sonar to the same output

pair as MIX1, you can choose to either include or

exclude the audio from the computer in the MIX1

stream being sent to Sonar. For details on how to

do this, see “Mix1 Return Includes Computer” on

page 68.

☛ War ni n g : t h e Mix1 1-2 input can cause

feedback loops! DO NOT assign this input to a

track that shares the same 896HD output pair as

MIX1.

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