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CHAPTER

7 Digital Performer

OVERVIEW

This chapter provides a brief overview of Digital

Performer’s basic I/O and synchronization

operation with the 8pre hardware.

Setting up your system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

The 8pre settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Be sure you have enough voices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Trimming the mic/instrument inputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Working with 8pre inputs and outputs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

24-bit operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

MIDI I/O via the 8pre MIDI ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Processing live inputs with plug-ins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Syncing to SMPTE time code. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Exchanging projects with AudioDesk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

SETTING UP YOUR SYSTEM

As described in chapter 4, “Installing the 8pre Mac

OS X Software” (page 21), the Digital Performer

and MOTU 8pre software installers will properly

install and update everything for you.

If you are using a MIDI Timepiece AV or Digital

Timepiece for synchronization, be sure they are

present in Audio MIDI setup.

THE 8PRE SETTINGS

Choose the 8pre as your audio input output device

by choosing Conﬁgure Audio System> Conﬁgure

Hardware Driver from the Setup menu. This

window shows some of the 8pre settings, such as

sample rate and clock source, but to access all of the

8pre settings, open MOTU Audio Setup, as shown

in Figure 5-1 on page 26.

Figure 7-1: Choose Setup menu> Conﬁgure Audio System> Conﬁgure

Hardware Driver to open the dialog shown above and access the

8pre CoreAudio driver. To access the rest of the 8pre settings, open

MOTU Audio Setup.

For complete details about the 8pre settings, see

chapter 5, “MOTU Audio Setup” (page 25). The

following sections provide a brief explanation of

each 8pre setting for use with Digital Performer.

Sample rate

Choose the desired overall sample rate for the 8pre

system and Digital Performer. Newly recorded

audio in Digital Performer will have this sample

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