MOTU 896HD, User Manual

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their live input with audio material recorded in
Sonar. See chapter 8, “Reducing Monitoring
Latency” (page 59) for complete details.
Optical input and output
To make the 896HD optical input or output
available in Digital Performer, turn them on in the
optical input and/or output menu. If you won’t be
using the optical connectors, turn them off.
Phones
This 896HD setting lets you choose what you’ll
hear from the headphone jack. For example, if you
choose
Main Outs , the headphones will duplicate
the main outs. Or you can choose any other output
pair. If you choose
Phones , this setting makes the
headphone jack serve as its own independent
output pair (except when running at 176.4 or
192kHz). As a result, you’ll see
Phones 1-2 as an
additional audio destination in Sonar’s audio
output menus.
ENABLING THE MOTU FIREWIRE AUDIO
WDM DRIVER
Once you’ve made the preparations described so
far in this chapter, you’re ready to run your audio
software and enable the MOTU FireWire Audio
WDM driver. Check the audio system or audio
hardware configuration window in your software.
Enabling the MOTU FireWire Audio WDM
driver in SONAR
To activate the MOTU FireWire Audio WDM
driver in SONAR:
1
Choose Audio from the Options menu.
2
Click the Drivers tab.
3
Highlight the 896HD inputs and outputs that
you wish to use and unhighlight the ones you don’t
as shown in Figure 7-2.
Figure 7-2: Activating the MOTU FireWire Audio WDM driver in
SONAR by highlighting 896HD inputs and outputs.
Other audio settings in SONAR
There are a few other settings in SONAR that
impact 896HD operation:
1
In the Audio Options window, click the General
tab.
2
Choose a 896HD input and output for recording
and playback timing as shown below in Figure 7-3.
It doesn’t matter which input or output you choose.
Figure 7-3: Make sure you have chosen a 896HD input and output for
the playback and recording timing master settings.