MOTU 896HD User's Guide download pdf (Page 49)

MOTU FIREWIRE CONTROL PANEL (MAC OS 9)

them. If your host audio software has a processor

meter, check it. If it starts getting maxed out, or if

the computer seems sluggish, raise the Samples Per

Buffer until performance returns to normal.

If you are at a point in your recording project where

you are not currently working with live, patched-

thru material (e.g. you’re not recording vocals), or

if you have a way of externally monitoring input,

choose a higher Samples Per Buffer setting.

Depending on your computer’s CPU speed, you

might ﬁnd that settings in the middle work best.

The Samples Per Buffer setting also impacts how

quickly your audio software will respond when you

begin playback, although not by amounts that are

very noticeable. Lowering the Samples Per Buffer

will make your software respond faster; raising the

Samples Per Buffer will make it a little bit slower, but

barely enough to notice.

Monitoring live inputs without plug-in effects

As mentioned earlier, CueMix Console allows you

to monitor dry, unprocessed live inputs with no

delay at all. For complete details, see chapter 11,

“Reducing Monitoring Latency” (page 85).

Enable Sound Manager driver

Check the Enable Sound Manager option if you

would like to route Sound Manager audio to and

from the 896HD. For example, you could listen to

an audio CD playing in the CD drive of your

Macintosh through headphones connected to the

896HD. As another example, you could route audio

from a pair of 896HD inputs into a third-party

Sound Manager-compatible audio application. Use

the menus provided to choose the desired 896HD

inputs and outputs you would like to route to/from

Sound Manager.

☛ This option is disabled when the 896HD is set

to a high sample rate (88.2, 96, 176.4 or 192kHz).

Enable Pedal

Check the Enable Pedal option if a foot switch is

connected to the 896HD and you would like to

trigger recording punch in/out (or other software

functions) with it. Use the Set buttons to determine

what keystroke is trigger by the pedal-up and

pedal-down positions. You can assign the pedal to

any two keystrokes you wish. (You are not

restricted to punch in/out.)

Interface menu

If you are operating multiple MOTU FireWire

audio interfaces, use this menu to access their

settings. When you choose an interface from this

menu, its settings are displayed in the window.

Disable

This check box, when checked, takes the interface

currently chosen in the Interface menu off line.

When it is off line, its inputs and outputs are not

available to audio applications, and bandwidth on

the FireWire bus is relinquished, freeing it up for

other devices.

Optical input/output

The Optical input and Optical output settings let

you choose between ADAT (‘lightpipe’) or OFF.

Tur n in g it of f f re es up FireWire bandwidth. In

other words, it opens up resources on the FireWire

bus for other devices connected via FireWire.

Phones

The Phones setting lets you choose what you will

hear from the headphone jack. Choose Main Outs

if you’d like the headphone output to match the

main outs. Choose Phones if you would like the

headphones to serve as their own independent

output, which you can access as an independent

output destination in your host audio software and

as an output destination for the four on-board

CueMix DSP mix busses.

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