User Manual

WORKING WITH HOST AUDIO SOFTWARE
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Configuration presets
The presets menu (item #7 in the Devices tab on
page 18) provides many useful presets for various
host routing scenarios. These presets are a
convenient shortcut for the routing grid setups
discussed in the next few sections.
Naming computer input and output channels
Click on any computer input or output name in the
routing grid (Figure 7-1) to change its name. These
names appear in your host audio software (but
only if your MOTU interface is connected to the
computer with Thunderbolt, and only if your host
software supports audio channel names).
Streaming computer audio to and from the
on-board mixer
In Figure 7-1, you’ll see “mix” inputs across the top
of the grid (Main, Monitor, Aux, etc.) These are
output busses from the your interface’s on-board
mixer. To route one of these mix busses to your
host computer software, click the grid at the
intersection of the mix column and desired
computer channel row. Now, the mix bus output
will be routed to the computer via the channel you
selected.
Figure 7-2: An example of routing physical inputs on the 1248 to computer channels (for host audio software). In this example, S/PDIF
input is on channels 23-24 going to the computer, and 24 channels total are being used for streaming to the host computer, but more can
be added for other inputs from the mixer or AVB network, if any.