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MOTU AUDIO SETUP
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Figure 5-3: The Mac OS X sound preferences let you use the
Traveler-mk3 for general stereo audio input and output for your Mac.
The Default Stereo Input and Default Stereo Output
settings in MOTU Audio Setup (Figure 5-2 on
page 38) let you specify the stereo input and output
on the Traveler-mk3 to be used when it is chosen as
the audio I/O device in the system preferences.
Phones Assign
The Phones Assign setting lets you choose what you
will hear from the headphone jack. Choose Analog
1-2 if you’d like the headphone output to match the
Main Outs. Choose Phones 1-2 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 eight on-board
CueMix FX mix busses.
Optical input/output
The Optical input and Optical output settings let
you choose between ADAT optical (‘lightpipe’) and
S/PDIF optical (‘TOSLink’) as the format for the
Traveler-mk3’s two banks of optical input and
output (Bank A and Bank B). Choose the format
that matches the device connected. If you are not
using the optical connections, it is recommended
that you turn them off (by choosing Disabled from
the menu) to reduce bandwidth and processing
overhead. Note that you can operate each optical
port independently. For example, you could use the
ADAT optical format on the Bank A input (with a
digital mixer, for example) and optical S/PDIF on
the Bank A output (with a DAT deck, for example).
Main Outs Assign
Choose Analog 1-2 from the Main Outs Assign
menu to treat the Main Outs as their own
independent output pair. Choose any other output
pair to cause the Main Outs to mirror (duplicate)
the output pair you choose.
Return Assign
The Return Assign menu lets you choose any pair of
Traveler-mk3 audio outputs, or any mix bus output
(when operating at 44.1 or 48 kHz). The audio
signal from this output pair or mix is then sent
back to the computer via the Stereo Return 1-2 bus.
This stereo return bus from the Traveler-mk3
appears in your host software alongside all other
Traveler-mk3 inputs, wherever your host software
lists them.
The Traveler-mk3 stereo return bus can be used for
a variety of purposes. For example, you could use it
to send a final mix being played through the
Traveler-mk3 back to the computer, where you
could record it for mastering or archiving
purposes.
As another example, you could use the stereo
return bus to capture tracks played from your host
software, along with live inputs being routed
directly through the Traveler-mk3 hardware via
CueMix FX (with or without CueMix effects
processing on the live inputs).
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