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1. le im the same crcl and same ground ss your ther goat On the other hand if you ae encountering gound loop probleme while operating withthe Mobile VO s power supply you may find that iting the Mobile VO ground resalves the prem This can be accomplished by sing 22 Pin TEC cable without the third ground pin o by using a ground li lock generally avalable in hardware tore azo known 3823 pinto 2 pl conver In general is beter to resolve the fundamental grounding problems in your system but this a quick fo that may help There ae no bard and fae rules for soiving this typeof problem ether than fixing the f dlamental grounding issues so if you go this route you wll have to expei ment with iting various grounde in your system untl you find the mag combination Or switch to balanced inerconnecs Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 Us ide Finally the Apple Cinema Deploy has a known ue with ts backlight im mer If you rn the Apple Cinema Display with Is backlight at anything other han fll bigness the backlight dimmer will inroduce a midrange buzz into the system ground which will appear in unbalanced interconnects input and output with Mabile VO This ive affects other devices that con et the computer 5 tem ground The workaround isto run the display At fll rightness or use balanced interconnect Finarwane UPDATE PROBLEMS For detail on updating the fmvare of Mobile UO refer to Append It sposibe fr firmware updates
2. comsponds to the actual clack source f you will be clocking off af ax source eg 32442 S0kt sample ate then choose the 2204448 flavor ofthe clock source On the other hand if you wll be clocking of 22x source eg 6akHa 100KHz sample rate then you wall choose the vent 88 96 favor of the clock source If you choose the wrong favor Maile VO wil not lock popely When you select the flavors Mabile VO which mode tas to run i and the Mable UO can lock to the extemal clockin the appropiate frequency range EXAMPLE SETUP AL Fare ample U2 Stop In this ection we wll go step by sep trough an application that is posible With 2 ULN 2 configured az shown In igure 39 on page 54 Aer reading this section you should have fel for how to apply Mabie U s routing and mixing capabitis Witten Device 1s THE CLock MASTER The fet consideration involved with a setup like thse which device should be the clock master the extemal device is happy slaving to Mabile UO then make Mobile VO the lock master by setting the clock source fo inter Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 User s Guide ral in MIO Console Set the extemal device to lock to its digital input or Wwordcloc ifthe extemal device has 2 wordelock input Hf you use word dock make sure to connect 275 Ohm BNC cable hetween Mebile VO and the extemal device Ifyou fied hat you ae geting clicks and pops inthe au coming frm the extemal device ty clocking Inthe other direction Set the ex
3. cesing Generally the CPU load increases asthe bute size decreases this is not rue forall host emagic s Loge Audio isa notable exception On the other hand the Inteny decreases a the butler size decreases Since In general you want the lowest CPU load andthe lowes latency you wll ave to make tade of The WIDE miter engine in Mabie YO helps substantlly with this issue because forthe common ential mantring configuration monitoring while racking exomal sources the Mobile UO mixer removes allo the ASIO Intncy trom the monitor path and allows you to decouple the latency from the ber size Inthe case that you are tying to perform with 2 soy running in your thot Mobile VO miner does not help decrease the latency since te signal i being generated onthe computer n this ease youl want to minimize the output atency by selecting the smallest CoreAudio bute siz possible This wll depend on your computer hardware the amount of processing you ae ding and the Cored host you Use Sera re ConeAuno Burren Sizt The methods used to set the CoreAudio bulfer size wil vary am host fst Some CoreAucia hots provide diect conta for adjusting the butler size and others do not your host doesnot support eeting the bur sae ect you wil have to se the host s default bur size 7 Mobile 1 0 UI Guide SAM LE SIZE The Mobile YO CoreAudio diver provides the CoreAudlo host wih 24 bit samples in 32 bit floating point seams
4. rect dubbing af iret ote i iin v bv 17 IEEE I308 0 internal clock 16 ieochronous 6 E Efe for Tracking 5 effects sends af Extension jiter 15 extemal lock Tock as source yb extemal power source 20 latency 7 Level u inking 5 F Lek FireWire 9 17 18 79 Locked 3 able 3 Logie o 100 Mobile 1 O User s Guide Index M Mies Master Far tame is Mees Motte 10 Aatog lap asi sol Inetice rs nag Output Front Puc i Distal la power cont Mast fever singly 3 M10 Conic facta 4 icity Stppon nrmaton 3 Mivoupat Rating Panel wat comes wih 3 MiOutpa Routing Whats i Mace 330 Monto eh us pt a Neavzero Lancy Channel aici 32 Mutipl WIDE mises x Chane Pane a Mute 0 cliping 33 chanel i deft sie 2 wasio 0 Frewieereurabace 92 toner 0 fly crowponed main 40__ wPalchay wo painrange 33 Mute et flare opts 2 tealmom s inerpoaion 3 ON Maser Fader 35 eeisof the moment 2 Maser Mute 35 Nucnlo ais Metre a Muti flick 036 tll inependem ninck 32 Mute Buttons BH Optical 1 Parameter Popup 32 Optiizing ipa vet 33 ehematie Spat Pachiny 3808103 61 7 colar 33 Solo Batons 3 ipored bases oP te 32 Pal WIDE wince 35 Analog VO nu Mobile 1 O User s Guide Index Mixer 23 crosspoint assign til i Routing 23 Logical Deserption 8 Parameter cout 21 Mix utile 8 Parameter Popup 32 naming channel is Parameter Popup contols M6 Parameter Popup 16 1 pull abel se 8 Copy Parameters 8 Seraar in
5. Create New Catgary 48 Routing Model 0 Delete Category is Delete Curent Parameters 48 Factory Default ww S Finder Maaugement of Presets 49 SIPDIF 15 16 28 Paste Parameters 4 Safery Compliance Presets a8 safety mixes Rename Curen Parameters 7 Sample Rate 7 61 75 Save Parameters 47 sample rate eoaver 16 28 Save Parameters As 17 Sample Size 6h 78 puchay Sereen Backlight asus 8 cable 42 Serial Number 2 Jack 42 sotsymth 77 Pusha router 22 Software requirements 2 Peristem Suite Snaps 50 Solo 3 Power 9 19 spark 20 PPM mete 24 Speciaoo 2 prevonfiguring Mobile HO 2 ske 1627 38 reset management 22 Steinberg Pro Tonle 17 Stembased mix stereo pair R SuperClock recall 22 Superelock Registration 5 Sweetenlng effects Routing Matix 3042 Synchronization ssi 43 System Configuring Channel Names 4 System Requtements 2 102 Tips TRS View w Warranty WC Out Window Gverioad Word Clock is 103
6. Mobile VO driver preferences Logie doce not automatically rest the butler size In order to ave the change ake eft you need oreset the driver You an do this by cycling the sate ofthe Langer Proces Buffer check ou can choose an extemal clock source from the Clack Source popup Figure Aad ier ton of the ae Proreces Finally to enable ASIO Direct Monitoring you must uncheck the Sofware Monitoring check box inthe Audio Driver preferences Please note that 2s of this wrtng the Logic implementation of ASIO direct monitoring does not appear to be fully compatible withthe MIO ASIO shiver and you may get eratic behavior i you enable ASIO Direct Monitor ing CONFIGURING DIGITAL PERFORMER Digtal Performer supports multiple driver types including AIO through the IMOTU Audio System MAS MOTU has provided an ASIO wrapper for MAS that allows MAS to use ASIO divers as tf they were bit into the MAS 5js tem albeit with some exra overhead Unlike the other ASIO Hosts described in thie chapter MAS appears to have significant ens to ASIOV Mo ile 1 0 UI Guide bff sizes running MAS with 128 sample bullets will double the CPU load over 1024 sample butlers Asa result you hve to carefully rade the total amount of processing agains cup latency wen you werk with Dig al Perform uscrone Momus VO Configuring MAS to use Mobile VO as its VO device is dane from the Con figure Hardware Device dialo
7. Si Matic Halo has addressed this sue witha cafe firmware update pro cedure The Mobile VO uses 2 cual boot pracedure The fst boo happens inthe fist 100m about 0 1 seconds and has been extensively tested tis smart enough to do two things 1 ttcan boot the secondary boot mage 2 ean update the secondary hoot image over the FireWire bus Actually the primary boot firmware is much smarter than that The box is completly functional on the primary boot but al athe more adanced fe ures ofthe box are enabled by the econd boot The fmware revision ofthe primary boots 11 0 As soon 25 the primary boot image has booted it checks the secondary boot image and the secondary boot image i ntalled and not compte a any Way the system Immediately boots the secondary Image H the secondary image i comupted orf you have held dawn the front panel Mate button lt lring the inital boot proces the Mobile VO will not boot the secondary image and will tay in Safety oot Mode This a mechanism you can use ifyou instal mare that as problems and you need to backup or istalla ewer image The safe boot mechanism allows you to back out a firmware update f you find thatthe new fmovare has some problem that was not present in 2 pe ius version ofthe firmware Metic Halo support may ask you to do this ring troubleshooting you encounter any problems In the future Mavic Halo may change the methods or tools used to find download an
8. lems The other elements ofthe expert options are not etal but you may want to use the stings we show here a they have ben texted extensively with Mobile VO The Device Setup Dialog also provides acces to Mobile VO extemal clock sources from the Clock Source popup menu This menu contain the Same options that appear in the MIO Console lock source popup men Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide Fare 47 Nuendo Clack Sore Popup NNuendo s VST Inputs window provides access tothe contol to name the AIO input channels azo allows you to enable input channels The port names that appear on the lft hand side ofthe window arethe pysical input pots repotd to Nuendo from the driver The names onthe ight side ofthe window are user configurable The On bustons down the middle of the window contol which channel pies have been enabled in the diver You ned t0 enable these to assign Input sips to the hardware channels but under normal circumstances you should only enable the channels you ed specially if you ae mixing and pushing your processor to the Kit you can gain some extra processor power by enabling the minimum number of nput channels Fare 4 Moen VST pte he VST Ouputs window allows you to enable which physical ouput you want t mix to As with the inputs you can save some processing power by Using the minimum outputs required to do the jo TP Enabling and disabling an output bus causes Nuendo
9. mentation provided withthe host to determine where to install the ASIO diver Gounp Loors Audio estes n general are susceptible to ground loop prablems Digital Audio Interfaces for computers are even more susceptble to grounding Tesuer since they must interface with the computers sytem ground which tend to he much more diy than the ground used by audio gear By taking care when you connec the various components of your audio sytem you an avid the hume buzzes and notes that characterize ground loops and other grounding problems Fis of al most rounding issues go away if you utilize balanced intrcon fects between your audio gear Balanced interconnects inherently reject round dferentials and common mode interference introduced by ground ing problems Balanced connections are not much more expensive than Mo ude ile 1 0 unbalanced connections and solve so many prableme tht if bath ends of the connection support balanced interconnect you should not even con sider using unbalanced cables You may get the idea that we hate unbalanced conctions You ve right We do You should too i you have to use unbalanced connections ot i any ground elated prob Jems remain you will find that the key t the issue is ensuring that you have common hard ground between ll the gear that you are interfacing This is commonly refered t9 25a technical ground A technical ground i charac terized by a consistent low impedan
10. or ccantol gt clck the tab The parameter popup mend lows you to maintain alibrary of standard mix configurations anes and Setups ee Parameter Popup Controls on page 50 alo provides avery uick method for copying mise from one bs to another ue Favens The Channel fader contol the relative level ofthe input channel in the mix Teworks jus lke non vitual counterpart The calbation numbers to the ile 1 0 UI Guide Figure 2 Merete op let ofthe fader knob provide an accurate guide to the amount of gain that willbe applied by the fade Te label area above the fader knab let you naw which input channel the fader is contraling The labels default tothe console default names fr the channels but you can rename the channels to more meaningful names using the naming contol nthe Rowing Mati see Configuring Channel Names inthe Matix on page 48 The exact amount of gai forthe fader i cplayed in the smal lack win dow above the fader channel abel you want to sta channel gai pre ely simply cliente smal black window ad type inthe desited gan in 48 numerically Hiting the lt retum gt key or clicking ouside the enty box makes the new sting take effect iting the lt tab gt key will make the new Sein take effect and will move tothe next numeric enty field in the miner he gain range for each channels from muted 0 10 dB The resolution ofthe gain conto i extremely fine and gun changes are interpolated in
11. GuBES pin FieWre A pe AES is AES recommended procedure analog UO Analog UO Control Analog Inputs Analog Output Control SIO Ff utr size utr ceonpabisy Dizeet Monitoring Driver Options How it works ASIO Hosts xynchronous nib clicks B balanced interconnects tase ry 6 Is Is 18 1628 7 2 4 a 2 74 6377 62 74 6478 3 75 0 74 0 best recoding quality hicuansparent wanstes BNC Box Info eu und buter Functionality huss joined Channel configuration window Channel Enables o Channel Label on Channel Level Mtr be Channel Names r Channel names Clock Source 9 igh aris 3896 Internal we alia WISH WEX2S6 48 WEX2S6 8896 Clock Sources i Clock Syne Clock synchronization Clocking licks and pops Cock Master Single speed vs double speed complex sto routing Configuration information connectors ear panel onsolided control onto parameter CPU Toa 16 20 30 i is 16 2 2 16 26 Mobile 1 0 User s Guide Index Ceosspoint 43 FireWire inputs 8 ros pot asin 40 FireWire light 30 Cubase 62 68 Firmware revision 30 Firmware Update Probicms 87 foldback aha D DAW m3 DC inpat wo G DC source 19 Gain Tam 4 setae outing 42 Ground Loops a Di Source 28 guiur B DISRC 2 Giga audio Is Digial 1O ihas H Digital Inputs 13 Headphone 10 55 Digial Ouput Meters 29 Digial Prfoemer 70
12. ULN 2 provides an ary of func ions that allow you to record and mix with unprecedented quality Any where Anime What iis LULN2 ie the result of dream to create a piece of audio gear that provides Unbelievable audio qualty while at the same time offering 2 degree of mobility and convenience that until very recently was simply not posible he sucessful integration of world class analog sages excellent IDIA con version and the amazing gal mixing routing and FireWire connectivity that has already made the Mobile VO line famous places the ULN 2 in 3 unique postion among computer aud interfaces UULIG2 is 2 portable high quality modular FreWire based mut format audio eoovere interface and processor fr professional audio applica tions The ULN 2 i equipped with two balanced analog inputs on Netric combo connectors two channels of Digital UO AESIEBU and SIPDIF two balanced analog ouputs 1 4 TS we balanced monitor outputs fr con necting diet power amps and self powered monitors as wel as word dock invout and 2 IEEE 1394 FireWite connectors that support A00 Mb eration All inputs and spt are capable of24 biy 6k operation What ichas 4 simultaneous inp channels and 6 simuitaneous output channels fll 24 bak audio 2 independeot channels f high gan low noise mip with with ble phantom power Fully Portable Capabilities Bus and Batery Fowerable Rack Mount Kt 441 48 882 96kHe Sampling Rate
13. UO Appietions programs that communicate with hardware via ASIO divers are called ASIO Hosts he ASIO standards quite ich and provides many possible options fr vari tions in the specication There ate many aspects ofthe spec that re not Supported by all ASIO hosts eg ASIO direct monitoring Metric Halo has dane extensive testing withthe major ASIO hosts and some ofthe minor ones and has worked to ensure maximum compatilty with al hosts Even If you ae using a host hat isnt specifically discussed here you are unlikely Yo encounter problems M you do please file a bug report ith beth Mat Halo and the developer ofthe ASIO host ASIO Basice How 7x AS10 Datver Woes The Mobile UO driver broken ita two components The fist companknt is camped ofthe MobilelO Driver and MobilelO Enabler files which ae Installed inthe Extensions folder nthe System Folder and ae the core of the Mobile LO driver the enabler ile allows the Mac to recognize the Mebile WO The MebilelO Drive les responsble for connecting the com puter tothe Mobile VO hardware managing the diver tat factating the ile 1 0 UI Mo 2 User s Guide communication between MIO Console andthe hardware and transporting Sudio between the hardware and clients The Mabile 10 ASIO file hich is installed in the ASIO Drivers folder of each ASIO est icant ofthe MablelO Driver and provides a gateway between the ASIO host and the Mobile UO driv
14. Well alo assign DAW 1 and 2 to mix busses 1 and 2 fr DAW playback We can name the mix busses by licking on the mix bus label Ths wal show the matrix configuration window Figure 41 on page 56 Wel name the headpane mi Mankar LR andthe snd mex cts Send UR Ys nut name ach mono ta ep athe Console cere the rae aoa ely Yu ean uth tb yo inert ough mx es ey ae he When yout finshed ith mun yp dase the ciguation window The mixer bus names have propagated traugh MIO Console which means they wil now show up in the Output Patchbay and the Miser view Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 User s Guide Note that Digtal UR easigned tothe Headphone mix but nt the Eects sed mix hiss rial because Digital Liste effects return and we def intely da not want to assign the rtm tothe send we do wel got feed back and na one especialy the singe will be happy To route the mixers to their intended destinations we use the Oust atch bay We want the Headphone mos to feed the front panel headphane curt of Mobile UO sa we l the Monitor section ofthe Ouput Patchy ta ake ite input fram Monitor UR ane Figure 2 Maing the Outpt Aigament The Effects Sen mix should feed the AES ouput 0 wel st the Dig sec tion ofthe Output Ptchbay to take ts input fom Efiects Send UR The routing is now st We can save the setup for the nex aching sion sing the Matrix Parameters and Patchbay Parameters popup menus see Parameter Popup Cont
15. arbitrary value The MASMobile UO Driver combination will not work comectly unless you specify one ofthe valid buf sizes 64 128 256 512 1024 or 2048 WARNING Since the buffer size is saved with the session in Dial Pe former and using smaller bufer sizes increases the CPU load You may encounter problems opening heal loaded session on slower machines you overland a machine due to having saved 2 small uifer size witha sex Sion MAS will wm you thatthe CPU has overloaded and will allow you to dlsable your MAS plugins If his happens open the Configure Hardware Device dialog and incest the bur siz When yu dismiss the Configure Hardware Device dialog the pls wil be enabled Busine Cuan MAS automatically enables and disables ASIO channels based upon the signed ouput busses and the recordenabled channels and Aux ints You can use thie fact to conserve CPL power by only recor enabling cha els when you intend to record on them only turing on hardware aux inputs when you ar using them and only mic to hardware busses when they are being used ASIO Divecr Monrroune Digital Performer doesnot support SIO Direct Montring CONFIGURING SPECTRAFOO In onder to use ASIO drivers with SpecaFoo or Spectrafoo Complete you rust have the Rad3 8releace or newer The 18 release isa fre upgrade nallble rom Matic Halo SpacraFoo Is 2 mult ve application that support all ASIO devices using SpectaFoo ASIO support To choose an ASIO driver you
16. eeccal wring has problems beyond a simple daiy chaned ground you should ile 1 0 UI Guide consult a censed electrician immediately as ignoring these problems can damage ether you or your gear fF you do not have a well implemented technical ground you will want ensure that alo the devices in your audio system ae plugged into the same phase and same ground You can generally accomplish tis by running all Your goa off ofthe same socket sing 2 power sip or power conitone if Your gear uses less power than i supplied by a single ciel rom your pre ses wiring generally 10 15 amp in residential installations and 20 amp in commercial insllatons tes usually a had deat put some devices in your system on a power con dioner and other devices on 2 separate stip socket or conditioner unless you havea technical ground The power conditioner can introduce a ground ternal The power supply provided wih Ma laptops dos nt havea hard ground This means that ithe laptop is plugged in wl dump high equency buzz ino the ground Tht grounds shared with the Mobile LO Firewire abl f Mobile 0 wil be connected unbalanced to other audio gear the round buzz can contaminate the signal if the Mobile YO isnot hard grounded to the same ground as your other audio gear To hard ground the Maile LO you wl ned to use a 3pin power cable onthe Mobile VO power supply ind power the Mobile UO wth the power supply Plug the 3 IEC power
17. for Metric Halo to support for interfacing with Mobile VO Applications pro same that communicate with hardware via CoreAudlo divers are called CoreAudio Hosts he CoreAudio standard ie quite rch and provides a number of places for toss to not suppor the specification comet There ae same hose that were implemented early that did not get support for multichannelmul stream device implemented comecty Mos ofthese hoes have been fed rare inthe process f being ied now yu encounter any problems with specific hos please let us know about it but also please let the host end know about ft CoreAudio pute many more requirements on hosts than it doee on devs sot is very likely that any such prablems are in the host Finally CoreAudio is very new and sill evolving many functions that exis in ASIO ike Direct Monitoring re not aailable in CoreAudlo yet As the standard evolves the MIO driver will evolve to keep pace with Metric Halo has done extensive testing with the major CoreAudio hosts and Some of the minor anes and has worked to ensure maximum compatibility with all hose Even if you are using a hos that is not specifically discussed thor you are unlielyto encounter peablems if you do please flea bug report with both Matric Hala andthe developer ofthe CoreAudio ho Mo ile 1 0 UI CoreAudio Basics How me ConsAtoyo Daven Wore he Mobile VO CoreAudio dive is provided by Mac OS X KECT The KEXT is MacOSX e
18. he mir tint maths the out bur that the np Charl Se Signdiontbe Howe ihe np hap re bang mid ata Arig 31 the ASIO Oct Menicor wt the np nme m9 Me 3 your mies a natch our ouput Dract Nantor to wok Enable the appropiate Monitoring mode in your host software it suppors maltple montor modes 4 Make sure thatthe miner does nt ave soloed channels and that the Mixer master mute is not enabled iether ofthese gotchae are in force you will encounter problems contlling the mixer fram ASIO Conpicuansc NuENDO Nuendo is 2 Steinberg application ad it uses ASIO a its only audio ine face standard The ASIO driver i selected from the VST Multitrack section of the Device Seup dialog 6 ser s Guide Fare 4 Noda VS Dv St Dig If you want to enable ASIO direct monitoring for Nuendo you enable the Direct Monitoring checkbox inthe Device Setup dialog The Contol Fae buton acess the Mobile UO diver options dialog hich lls you to et the ASIO butler sz Nuendo apples the new butler size when you lik the Apply buton othe OK buon There ate some advanced stings inthe Nuendo Device Setup Dialog that you need to select for proper aperation You can acess these stings by licking the Exper but The VST Engine Exper Setings Dialog wil sppesr Figure 4 Nord VST Expert Option You should mate sure thatthe Lower Latency and Compatibility Made checkboxes are enabled if they are not enabled you wil encounter pab
19. il pos If he FireWire hardware on the computer has been damaged it wil not communicate with any FreWire devices Be sure that you ae ot checking this cae with abad cable 2 bad able can make I seom like the FireWire hardware has fled since i will consistently keep devices fom connecting propery ta the computer the computer is damaged you will need to con fact the manufacture fora repair of as a sopgap measure you ean Use 3 thie party Freie adapter cad the FireWire hardware on the Mobile UO hasbeen damaged the MIO will ot communicate with anyother devices In this case please contact Matic Halo support for hlp in geting your Mobile VO hardware repaid WueN I swircit To MIO ConsoLs PLAYmACK STOPS OS 9 Some ASIO Hoste will automatically sop playback when the host f itched to the background This aculs when you switch to MIO Concle oc any other aplication All ofthese hosts have an option o continue ply ing in the background you need to ensure thatthe option is enabled in dion to the hosts own preference many ofthe hots tha support MIDI Sequencing will op paying if the MID syst OMS or FreeMID hasbeen configured to release the MIDI port when in the background While iis abit onfising you need to encure thatthe MIDI system i configured to not share or release the MIDI po Amore cube issue is that MIO Console hasan option to optimize eda ing operations which canbe interupted by background application activ the Allow B
20. miner surface isthe Master Fader This fade wil be Mono for Mono Mixers and Stereo for Stereo Mises Above the Master Fader sa bus mute buton that allows you to quickly mute the ene mixer Each mix bus can have upto 10 inputs assigned to it All ofthe analog and dlgtal hardware inputs ae available in each mixer You can also assign any oral of the hast playback channels from your DAW to each mixer ince there are 4 hardware inputs and FireWire return busses that are outed fom the hoe compute you can mix up ta 10 channels on each bus he default tate ofthe hardware input channels inthe miners is faders at unity mutes 09 sols off and centr panned The playback channels fom Yyour DAW are unmuted in pais per bus e DAW 1 2 wil be unmuted on Mix 12 DAW 374 wal be unmuted on Mix 14 Mat Pane Tans Use the abe above the pan knobs o sect the mer you want to contol ach ab represents a mixer you have configured in the routing panel When you click ona tab the contol wil be instantly pated orflec the state ff the associated mixer nth way you can quickly switch back and forth between multiple independent mses ach with fll mixing interface ire 28 Mier Fe ab ach mir also has a Parameter Popup contol associated with it Une the input and Ouput contols the parameter cont popup does not have fan explict user interface element representing Instead the popup f fcceneed from the mixer tab Rell To pop up the menu you either click nd hold theta
21. ouput channel simply goto the popup menu for the oupue you want to route to click and select the source send Each popup window is like the Jack af patchbay and each name inthe popup ent slike a patchbay cable that caries the named signal Perce Panter Poou Control Directly above the patchbay popup menus i the Patchay Parameters parameter popup contol Ths conto allows you to store patchbsy configu ations for later recall See the section Patchbay Popup Controls on age 41 for more dalle about the parameter popup menu The factory default routing for Mobile VO configures the box to behave 3s 2 lect outed audio interface all the inputs go directly tothe compute ll the outputs fom the compute are dtl routed o the hardware ouput and the Headphone ouput fed by the streo mixer on Mix 1 2 This makes the Mobile VO act ike abasic udlo interface Other configurations that may be very useful incl direct outing of analog inputs to AESSPDIF 2 channel PreDUADQ switching mule of the mie ouput for aerate mona configurations his contol lls you to maintain a ibrar of frequently used routings and ith between them at wil Spend ite ime to famiirize yourself witht itis exremely power ROUTING MATRIX DETAUS he Routing Matrix Matin amp the mixer assign matrix that son the right side ofthe pane se Fgure 30 on page 38 This cont surface allows you Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 User s Guide 1 fully configure
22. poten owe tsp Tim Pot 1 Them pot como panive anor The stanatr bred Toten the rane car nd the AD Comer oh para i eh repro sund gun Pah he thet ale th The front panel also provides ULN 2 system status ata glance Sample Rate nominal 44 1 48 88 2 096 The Sele Rate deter rom hn cre sce dock war tole acral icin Cavett enw Se ck Parcels ben proved by ah etaral deren Clack source ternal ester ht he tam ral oct Wordloc inter at stam ting docked ram he word cee 254 nes tt yan bing dH 25 ocak Digan inate hatte yum bang cocid from the lated lt igal put AES or SPD 2564 WC Dig In inde th he ptm big ck rom he ADAT opt nat Power FieWire Inge dt U2 ean iy oi Fen Locked inset tthe sre dec acvery cet prope chad othe ered dock scurta li ight enfin he CAN wl robe he Laced yt init he acl apelin Sted onthe ron panel py Digial YO Section The AES and SOI lg se mz exceantncatewich of e he ro put por are fein the Stereo Dig wpe ot UN The eed ie nents whan he ipl rece ahd the Meo ipl sudo nt he ULN 2 font pane prvides acces tothe level control knobs for head phones and forthe monitor aus The headphone esp ack is onthe front panel and the monitor ouput jacks are located on the back ofthe unit The headphane ouput jack is TRS 1 4 jac that provides the Let Channel on the tp the Right Channel on the ring andthe ground retum forthe two hannls on the sleeve The Monitor cut jacks are ba
23. the LIN at exam dec ae tt sing the tame dig sud ck vison ofthe UN oye ronan mechan Figure 24 DLSRCBaon The Lock indicator show which elements ofthe LILN 2 clocking system ate propely lacked The clocking system must be locked forthe uni o behave ae expected If the system Is not locked audio wil play 2 the wrong rate and wil be darted oF nol Under normal ccumstancs the system should always be locke butif you have selected an external clock source and the clock sig nal ie not present comupted or cutofrange the sjsem may Unlock Thee are indcatots forthe system andthe digital input ile 1 0 UI Axio Ovrev Cowraot The bottorn half of the panel is dedicated tothe hardware outputs of the UUW Channel Label buton The snpy abl wich hale sot wth op 1 Channel Level Meter The spk edn hghceoiten fe PPM met sows he pe aoe lel fhe ouput gl of he stated aan The pest ot bar dent the hight le sean oo the can se the se You unrest hall by csng on he mer Al hte ts erty he UN ardor Masrros ovrpur Mees Tthe night ofthe Analog Out controls the Monitor Output Meters sc tion This group of meter provides level metering forthe monitor and head Phone oupputs on the ULN 2 These metrs have the same response haracteristies asthe analog ouput meters and show you the audlo activity ofthe monitor seam Drcras Ourncr Merens atthe right ofthe Monitor Ouput controls is the Digital Meters section This s70up of meters
24. the stucture of the mult bus WIDE miner inthe ULN2 hardware tals allows you to name all ofthe hardware and virual chan els that ar accesible inthe hardware You use the Matrix to asign hardware ad Freire inputs DAW ouput 0 mixers in the Mobile VO To assign channels to a given mix you click on 3 crorpoint in the Matrix darkening the assclated Croespoint Asin tl Deseleting a tile removes the atocated fader from the mixer and mutes the channel nthe hardware he WIDE mina allows you to assign ll ofthe hardware input channels and all ofthe FireWire channel teach mix bus By linting the number of channels assigned to any given bus you can reduce the complexity of the sociated mixer interface Locicat Descatrriow ach mix bus and each input channel has a pth label ile assocated wit it These tiles are arayed along the top and let exges ofthe Mats The tes along the top edge ofthe Max are the input path ies Each Se is colo coded based upon the type of input is Green for Analog inputs Orange for Digital Inputs Purple for Procesed Busses Blue for FireWire Input Outputs from the DAW Each tile shows the Mabile VO unit its associated with the physical name forthe pth and the user defined name forthe path Above eich pai of inputs fa thin te that ie used o jin two input paths int a sere ip channel In the factory default configuration the Digital Inputs re joined ito a stereo par and each par of DAW ch
25. to not take This appears tbe related to DSP loading issues inthe Mobile UO other devices onthe FiWire bus and the sate ofthe Fire system sofware on the Mac f you have problems with updating the fmware ty the folowing procedure 1 Remove all device from the FiteWire bus 2 your Mobile VO i using extemal power disconnect the power 5 Reboot your computer 4 Atach the extemal power supply othe Mobile UO while holding down the front panel Mute button tis wil boot the Mobile UO toto the safey boot emwate 5 Cannect the Mobile UO ta your computer 6 Run the fimvare updater Since Mobile VO implements safeboot and safe fimware update you should always be able o use this procedure to update the fmvare even f Something goes horribly wrong ike losing power during an update Bus PowEniNc MoaiLe 10 Ifyou are bus powering the Mobile VO there 2 posbity that you have cveroaded the power rating ofthe power source Nor eNouau rowss aw ma aus While all Macintosh computers with bun reWse supply bus power same models donot provide enough power onthe bus to power Mabie VO this isthe case you wil generally fnd thatthe Mabie VO wil bot on in ry ile WO Guide tial connection but wil then lose power or wil reboot repeatedly after a short period of operation Some Mac models provide enough power if they are plugged into the wal but will not provide enough power wile running on bari the conn puter des not prov
26. to reset the driver i you encounter any driver synchronization problems this fete atest way to rest the diver and force 3 rey Guide igre Narn VST Ont Conricuase CUBASE Cubase Steinberg application that wes ASI as its only audio interface standard The ASIO diver e selected from the ASIO Device popup men ofthe Audio System Setup dag gr Cab Stem Sep if you want to enable ASIO direc monitoring for Cubase enable the ASIO Direct Monitor checkbox inthe Audio System Setup dialog he Launch button acceses the Mobile KO driver options dal which allows you to se the ASIO ber size Cubase des not apply the new bufer ize automaticaly You will ned to switch the ASIO Device popup 10 nother driver and then back to Mabile VO fr the buler size change to ake ect The Audio System Setup dialog ako provides acces tothe sample ate and ck source seting forthe Mobile UO driver CCubsse s VST Inputs window provides access tothe controls to name the SIO input channels also allows you to enable input channel The port Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide names that appear on the left hand side ofthe window are the physical input pts reprted to Cubase rom the driver The names on the right side of the window ae configurable by you The Active bustons down the middle of the window contol which channel pairs have been enabled in the driver Yu need to enable these to assign input strip tothe hardw
27. we comand oie hn ceded rene a8 eth command to remove the cen sled pee om he ior Co Net Cary seth command toda ew agar tothe rary Det Cepory eth conmand wo deca cent eed agar anda eraced pret Copy Pannen ics he pet yo cm oy oe Sais eats corre ce cement Sng to the tangs on te clpbord Ue is with he Cony Fenn nd een stings Hom om cael 0 he Factory Default command wil et the current sate ofthe associated console stings othe defaul stings Porun Paesers Inthe third part of the mena each ofthe categories wil else as hierar chhical menu tile Each of the presets foreach category wil be lied in the submenu under the category menu The curently selected category and pr Set are dawn in bol so you wil know whats curently active Selecting a preset from the menu will make tht preset active and will tthe rent ste ofthe associated console setings to the valuee contained within the preset The name ofthe curently selected preset wil be dawn in the popup are inthe console window to indicate which preset is active HF you change the settings in the console the name ofthe preset wil be dawn in alice indicating thatthe current settings fer from the selected preset Mo ile 1 0 UI id For the Input and Ouput channels you can hold down the lt opton gt key while selecting 2 preset to automatically apply the preset to all ofthe other input croup channels Tocces the parameter popup forth
28. 2 the hardware provides a special feature to simplify copperbased dlgtal connections to the box The digtal input on ULN 2 hasan optional synchronous sample rate converter SRC that wil automatically match the ample ate ofthe Incoming audio tothe sample ae of the ULN 2 This con verter is enabled by default and you can disable tin the System section of the MIO Console F you have synchronized the ULN 2 to the extemal Source using any ofthe exensve sychroniztion methods provided by UULN 2 you will generally want to disable the SRC in order to get 24 bit transparent audio anspor over the gta inp ctock sive Clock syne isa serious consideration in any digital audio sytem IF you ae recording analog sources with ULN 2 you can simply use the nits high quality intemal clock source to deve the converter Thief the ceases case to deal with 1 you need to interface with ether devices digitally or ensure sample accu ae syne with video sources the extensive cock synchronization capabil tes of ULN 2 will prove be more reliable and beter sounding than most higher priced akematives There are thee diferent ways to get extemal lock information into the unit 1 Sending 21x word clock signal into the WC Input BNC 2 Sending a 256x word clock signal ito the WC Input BNC 3 Sending an AES o SPDIF signal int the Digital input he BNC word clock input port isa 75 Ohm terminated cosa inp should be driven ty 2 75 Ohm source diver an
29. MOBILE I O ULN 2 User s Guide NEIRCEALO Mobile VO ULN 2 Users Guide Copyright 2002 2003 Metric Halo Distribution Inc All ight reserved under Intemational and Pan American Copyright Con vertons Published inthe United States by Matric Halo Disbution Inc New York tpufwwblabs com Prot inthe USA The Mobile VO Sofware including but not limited to the MebiletO Enabler MobilelO Driver Mobile VO ASIO Mobile ODrverkext and MIO Console are all Copyright 1999 2003 Metic Halo Distbution Ine Fetions Copyright 2001 2003 Works Manufacturing Corporation All rights reserved worldwide Please review the license agreement tht overs your use ofthis sofware Portions ofthe Mabie YOM ASIO fl are Steinberg Sof und Hardware Gib sed under heense This manual contains references to trademarks of Metric Hala Disibuton Ine and other companies All tadematke are the propery of thei resp tiv holders and are used hereto denote compatibity or for reference pu poses Metric Halo the M logo SpecaFoo ChannlStrip Mable YO MI 2882 ULN 2 and MIO Cansole ae trademarks of Metric Halo Distbu tion ne MOTU and Digta Performer ae tadematks of Mark of the Unicorn In ProTools Digidesign and Superclock are trademarks of digidesign a divi son of Avid nc Lic ua ia trademark of emagie GmbH ASO VST Nuendo and Cubase are trademarks of Steinberg Soft und Hardware Gin The ASIO interface technology
30. Panel 3 Figure 28 Mixer Pane Tabs 2 Figure 29 Mixer Paramoter Popup Er Figure 30 Mix Ouput Routing Panel fe MO 2883 38 Figure 32 Block diagram of the Mobile VO couing architecture 39 Figure 31 ULN 2 Mix Output Routing Panel 30 Figure 33 Complete view ofthe Mobile UO Mltix Mixer 1 Figure 34 Channel Confgurtion Window 6 Figure 35 Parmeter Popup Ment 0 Figure 36 Parameter Libra Fes inthe Funder Mobile 1 O User s Guide Table of Figures Figure 37 ULN 2 Front Pane Snapshot Contos Figure 38 Lilies Mena Figure 38 Example ULN2 Seup Figure 40 Configuring te Matix Figure 41 Naming the mix bases Figure 42 Making the Output Assignment Figure 43 Headphone Mier Figure 44 Mixer parametcrs popup Figure 46 Nuendo VST Expert Options Figure 45 Figure 8 Figure 47 Nuctdo Clek Source Popup Fipre 50 Culhse Sytem Setup Figure 49 Nuendo VST Outputs Figure 51 Cubise VST Inputs Figure 52 Aulio Driver vecton ofthe Lapc Preferences Figure 53 DP MAS Configure Hardware Driver dialog box Figure 54 SpectraFvo Audi VO tent Figure 55 Spectravo ASIO Driver Configuration dog Figure 56 Motile UO aot fund dog Figure 57 Update Firmare Choose Dialog Figure 58 MIO Package Figure 59 MlOBootlnstller Window 80 96 6 Guide Mo ile 1 0 UI Introduction and Overview Thank you for purchasing a Mobile VO ULN2 the ultimate FireWire tse profesional audio interface Your
31. ULN 2 and other devices onthe FeWire thus and make sure tat everything is connected comec that does not properly establish the connection ny rebooting your computer Ata last esoa By connecting only the ULN 2 to the computer to ensure that com munication can be establhed Moar PANEL he Analog VO pane provides al of the bead and busterfuncionaliy that you Would expact from a flexible audio Interface lke ULN 2 what you Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 U Guid eed to ge the job done quicly and easily The Mixer panel provides fa2 tures that you won find anywhere else here is where things sar get realy interesting ere Mie Fe The conto in the top half ofthe mixer panel are the same analog input contols described inthe section Analog VO View on page 24 The boom bal ofthe mixer panel provides a contol surface for the multiple integrated hardware mixers running on ULN 2 You access this panel by clicking onthe Mixer button ofthe view panel selector bar atthe top ofthe console win dow ach mixer has contol for Level fade Slo futon and Mute buton for each channel Each stereo mocer aso includes a pan contol knob foreach mono channel Stereo inputs such as the defauts ofthe digtal inputs or your DAW output will not have a pan knob Instead the two india Channels that make up the pair wil be hard panned and the fader meters will appear as stero meter a 2 Guide ile 1 0 UI Ath fright ofeach
32. ackground App to Run item in the MIO Consoles Edt men doesnot have 2 diamond mark next to the console will lock other a Guide ile 1 0 UI applications out while itis the active application This isnot a problem for st ASIO Hosts but it does affect Digital Performer which wil stop playing fier 10 20 seconds To resolve this sue make sure thatthe Allow Bac round Apps to Run item inthe MIO Console Edt menu does havea dae mond mark 0 next to WHERE ARE THE EXTENSIONS ASIO Dntvens FOLDERS The Extensions folders a system wade location for all thid party extensions to the Mac OS fis leat within the curently active System Folder You an generally fnditby using Sherlock to find fies named Extensions Con ult the documentation for your Macintosh for more information Place ate that localized versions ofthe Mac OS use diferent translated names for beth the Extensions folder andthe Sytem Folder The ASIO Drivers folder by convention isthe location that each ASIO host uses to manage ASIO civers Most hort follow the convention that ASIO hve are stored in a folder named ASIO Driver that is located in the ame folder 2 the hest application Each host has ls own ASIO Drivers folder they are not shared You need instal the Mobile 10 ASIO dever in the ASIO Drivers folder fr each host you want to use with Mabile VO f your host doesnt follow the convention you will have to coast the doc
33. ances al FreWite cables wil provide years of service However cables will and do go bad Cable fallues can be dificult t wack down Ifyou are experiencing problems with connecting or bus powering Mobile VO you should ty swapping the cable with another known good cable the FireWire cable not the source ofthe problem check the next poss bay Te Poets Horan nas wees Danae ifall ele fal tmay be thatthe FireWire hardware on either the Mobile VO for the computer has been damaged While this is an exceptionally rare cures itis a posi The FireWire hardware can be damaged in the following ways 1 you inet a FireWire cable ita a pot upside down wl dans age the rere pot andor the connect edict a set he connecorupide down butt possible to force ke Never force 3 FireWire connecter 2 request pressure but tis posible to force Freie Connector era male XLR connector pi you do hs he con Mo ile 1 0 UI ide rector wil be shorted and it will destroy the port on the other end Again never force aFreWire connector 3 Some devices that are bu powerable and conform tothe EEEI394 Standard wil return power tothe remote Freie por if power ound fuk accu the remote por protected against this su 2ton nothing wil happen Ith device does not use bus powes nothing wll happen Bu the device i fully compliant uses bus power and the remote device snot protected and supplies 2 high Noltage on the bus the remote device port
34. anel 1 Analog VO Pane 2 Miner Fane 3 Routing Panel ile 1 0 ULN ANALOG 1 0 ViEW iar 15 Amal UO Panel This panel provides full conto and metering ofall ofthe analog UO that the box provides The top haf of the view is dedicated to inputs and the botom hale dedicated outputs You access thi panel by clicking onthe Analog VO Contr buon ofthe view panel selector bar 1 Channel Label button Fare 16 Chal ae Ths amp abl whic hale sot wth te canal rp 2 Channel Level Meter Th i pa rndng hearlton ft PM mete shows th post enero fhe npr ia of te soca cnn The peal Sereda teat el soon the ama sce he at ee nae the ly ekg on the mtr There metre snp gh loon venom the rts show oo ent pel oe Co he ear gered the AND far au Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 gare 17 Chale Meter Orroazave lar svess The Analog to Digital converters ADC in most devices function best When the peak level i around 5 dBFS owest distortion best sound This i tue fof the ADCs in ULN 2 Since you have fl level contol of the input with the fin tim knob you wil ind that you get the best qualiy recordings if you tty tose the nominal peak level ofthe input at about 6 BFS nadition to providing the bet recording qual has the added benefit that you wil be peraing with an extra amp dB of headroom before clipping Thee ls na dr back to optimizing your levee in this way and plenty of benef Dacras burr Mera athe night ofthe Analog Input co
35. annel is jlned into reo pas the channels are Joined into a stereo pair and the pals signed to a stereo mixer the pat will be represented by a single stereo fader inthe mor imteriace and no pan knob wll appeac he white bes along the let edge ofthe Mars are the Mix bus tes ll of these tiles are white because they all represent mix buses Each tile shows ile WO Guide he Mobile VO unit its asociated withthe physical name for the mix bus and the username forthe mix bus othe left ofeach pair of Mix tiles ae thin inet tiles that are used ta jin two mix buries Info a stereo bus f the busses ae Joined the associated mixer will have pan knobs foreach ofthe mona hardware channel H the bus sa mono bus there are no pan knobs associated with the input chan els The interioe ofthe Matix fe composed ofa lage number of square coss point assign ies The Matric is too wide oft completly within the MIO Console window you may use the scolar that appears at the bottom of the Matix to scroll he remaining DAW channels int view Each crospoin assign tie indicates whether or not the input channel atthe top of the column i signed to the mix bus a the edge ofthe row the tie isilledi the channel assigned to the mix and the conto fr that chan el wil appear in the asocated mixer the crosspoint ile i not filed in the channel ie not assigned othe mix and the contol will not appa The channel willbe muted and unzoloed onth
36. apshot confine 2 complete description ofthe state ofthe box including Sample Rate Clock Source Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide Digital input source Sample Rate Converter Enable Pachbay routing Mixer Configuration and levels In other words a snapshot saves every aspect of the configuration ofthe ULN2 he fist snapshot slot fe spacial asi is used by the uni to configure the hardware and the routing when the ULN 2 arte up The other 9 slots are snallable for storing altemate configurations that can be selected on the fy Sifter the ULN 2 is up and runing When a computer is atached tothe ULN 2 the front panel controls selec snapshot are locked outsincethe compute is actively conling the configuration ofthe box the computer not aftached the two tactwitches onthe leftideof the frontpanel between the staus indicators and the mer may be used to selec the snapshot that you want to use to configure the ULN 2 These but tons are labled with up and down arrows The cute selected snapshot is indicted by the column of LED S labled C1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 When the UULN 2 tums on the C indicator will be iluminated indicating thatthe unithas booted up with the state that was stored inthe Boot Snapshot cond Tigre a7 UN Fen Pel eopet Coc Pressing the uparow will move tothe next higher napehot nthe ist eg if you are curently on snapehot 3 you will move to snapshot 2 Conversely pressing the dawn arrow will move
37. are channel but Lunder normal circumstances you shauld only enable the channels you ed specially if you ae mixing and pushing your processor to the Kit you can gain some extra processor power by enabling the minimum number of input channels Far 5 Cabs VST lp he VST Ouputs window allows you to enable which physical ouputs you want to mix to AS with the inputs you ean save some processing power by sing the minimum outputs requis to do the job TW Enabling and disabling an cusp bus causes Cubase to reset the diver i you encounter any drive eynchronization problems thie the atest Way to est the diver and force a esyne Conpiguane Locic Logic Audio supports maliple driver types in addition to ASIO In fact Logic supports using multiple dever types athe same time Refer to your Loge documentation for information on how take advantage ofthis festre Configuring Logic to use Mabile UO as one of its UO devices is done from the Audio Driver section ofthe Logic Preference Tis section ofthe prefer ences window displays a checkbox foreach ofthe supported diver types You must enable the ASIO driver type by checking the ASIO checkbox o 70 ile WO 2 Guide Make sure thatthe other options fr the ASIO driver are dpiyed as shown To select Mobile UO as your ASIO diver choose Mabie VO ASIO fram the Driver popup menu To adjust the bufer size click the Contol Panel bution to access the
38. cannot utilize balanced interconnects there are connection schemes that you can us that wll maximize perfomance On input a tine keve itssuficient to simply use standard unbalanced 15 connecsions you are interfacing withthe ULN 2 XLR inpus you will eed to ensue tht pin 3 i grounded in the unbalanced adapter cable The UULN 2 XLR inputs ar ll wired pin 2 hot and the 1 input are wired Tip bot TP To use the ULN 2 TRS input with guitar or bass you can simply use standard TS gutar cable pach cord and it will work ie However You can take advantage of the balanced input design ofthe ULN 2 to get more noe ejection than you thought possible ona guitar input In order to do this you will need to make a psuedo balanced telescoping shield guitar cable Tis an be constucted with a TRS connector aTS connector and balanced microphone cable This cable wil teat the guitar asa lating balanced source and provide a telescoping sie rom the ULN 2 ground on Mobile 1 0 ser s Guide Ifyou want tous the TRS inputs with balanced microphones you will need an XLR female to 1 4 TRS balanced pg adapter cable These ae valle commercially or you can constuct ne easly The connections ar Tp to Pin 2 Ringo Pin 3 and Slove to in 1 Fare 1 UR lee TS Cae On output the situation ca bit more complex you are diving an unbal anced load you wil gt the best performance by not connecting the ring of the TRS Jac
39. ce path between each device and a common reference ground ideally connected directly t earth ground The above is somtimes dificult duet elecrical wiring problems inthe house Rudo or stage you are uring nthe extreme case you may need to hie qualified electrician to untangle and conectelectial sevice problems in your working environment Unbalanced connections are a fact off when interfacing with guar amps and paradoxically guitar amps are exremely sensitive to grounding issues Since they use so much gan to achieve the efect of Guttar Amp f you wll be inefacing with guitars and guitar amps you need tobe very careful bout grounding Common elecrical witing approaches to residential installations and sub par tudo and stage installations use dae chained grounds for ese of ineallation and economy Unfortunately daey chained grounds can into duce sgiant ground diferentals between sockets and these diferent an vary depending on other loads ike reigeratrs TVs and oter house hold appliances on the circuit Other probleme with electrical service installations are improper witing of power phases tothe three phase service and improper connections between the safery ground and hot lgs of the thnce phase sevice These types of probleme tend tobe characterized by loud 60H hums inthe audio system Uniotunatly these types of problems extend wall beyond nose in your audio sytem to genuine safety hazards you determine that your
40. d accomplish firmware updates the tools change they will bbe accompanied by an updated version ofthis Append 95 Instaling emote update In onder otal a frmvare update follow these sep 1 there isan associated driver update place the Mobile O Driver and MobileIO Enabler in your extensions folder inside your sytem folder 2 Reboot your computer 3 Make sure your Mobile VO i powered up and connected to your computes 4 Dbl click on MIOBootInsaler ou vl 0 the following gr 5 MlOBectatle Wow oBcotnsler wil ind your Mobile VO on the FireWire bue and begin sending commande tok When MlOBoatntaller is fied updating the amare it wl say Walt 10 seconds then bit eum Afr you hit turn MlOootnsaler will your Mobile LO again and display your units serial number and the mare revision which should match the imvare revision identified wit the package Copy the Mobile VO ASIO Driver into the ASIO folders ofthe audio applic tions you want to use eboot your compute and you re ready to go Rolling back your firmware you nd tht you have problems with any gen release you can always ga back a previous release by downloading package rom pute labs om comimia and folowing the update isractions in that package 7 96 Mobile I O ULN Mobile 1 O User s Guide Index Index Numerics us 21m coaxial power connector 2i bit wansparen audio 400 Me tin FuseWire
41. d interconnected with 75 Ohm coasal cable you do net use proper cabling and source dive you will ttoduce reflections onthe word clack cable which wil propagate jt terinto the recovered word clack Thiet true whether you use the potas 3 Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 Us de Hc WC input of 256 WC inp but becomes more important when the cock signal 256 11s genealy appropriate for use with devices that provide a word clock output f your device provides a256x ouput you may ind that you get bet ter recut sing that clock signa The Digidesign line of Pro Taols prod ucts we 256x a0 thei Superlock clocking signal he AES recommended procedure for distributing clock isto use an AES clock signal The AES clock signal i an AES digital audio signal with 90 Sudo activity ULN 2 ony uses the AES preambles for clock recovery 50 ls immune to data dependent ter effects This mans you can reliably use the Digital Input as a clock source with or without audio data FReWine FireWire ic Apple s regitered trademark forthe IEEE 1394 High Speed Serial Bus FireWire started ae an Apple technology to replace a vary of inerface ports on the back ofthe computer Aer promulfating a number of loved proprietary technologies in the early days ofthe Macintosh Apple determined that open standards were beter forthe Mac forthe industry Sand for Apple tel On that basis they opened thee technology for standard ization under the auspices ofthe Intut
42. e Oupt Hot Fel AO 283 Figure 30 show MivOuput Routing Pane fora Mobile VO 2882 unt The UULN 2 has a smaller set of physical 1 and mixing resources and the Mid Outpt Routing Panel automatically adjusts tothe device ti dpaying See Figure 31 cn page 39 for the panel appearance when you ae sing 3 UULN 2 The MiuOuput Routing Panel has two main components 1 The Output Patchy on the lf side ofthe panel 2 The Routing Matrix onthe ight side of the panel Mobile 1 O ULN 2 User s Guid Fire UN Mut Roig Paed Te RounING Mone he Routing Panel provides a user interface fr contraling the underlying routing architecture ofthe Mobile VO The routing architecture provides 3 powerful routing model to allow you to contol the rating of signals bbemween physical amp virtual inputs andthe hardware mixer amp physical out puts Conceptually the architecture is quite simple a9 ile WO Guide All fhe physical inpus eg Analog and Dig ll f the channels being ransmited over the FreWire bus fom the hast Application fe DAW and all of the ouputs fom the Mobile VO WIDE Mixer are available tthe Out put Patchbay The OuputPachbay can crospoint assign any of sips 0 ny ofthe physical oupus eg Analog Monto and Digi All ofthe physical inputs and allo the channels being tansmited over the FreWire bus from the host Application are ako Inputs to the Mobile VO WIDE Miser Every bus has each of those Inputs avai
43. e VO ASIO driver provides the ASI host with 24 bit samples you record witha 16 bit selon thre no mechanism forthe ASIO host 0 Inform the Mabie UO driver that t want bit samples the responsi bilty ofthe host to dither the incoming audio to Tosit samples before recording them the host does ot dither the samples to 16 bit they will be truncated by the hot when they are recorded For best reconding quay se your host 24 bit recording option Goce Sources The ASIO specification provides the capability for hosts to contol the hard ware clock source Some hosts provide a use interface to do this others do otf the host des provide an interface to do this you will beable to slect fe ofthe Mabile YO external clock sources dirty fom the hos the host docs nat provide an interface you will need to se the MIO Console to select the extemal clock source If you have slected an external clock Source using ether the hast or the console you will nt be able to control the system sample ate from the computer MIO Concole wil automatically reflect the clock source and sample rate et by the ost ASIO Dwvecr Monrroune he ASIO2 standard added the capably for ASIO hosts contol hardware monitor mixing in ASIO hardware The Mable UO ASIO driver maps ASIO Direct Monitoring commande ta the Mobile VO WIDE hardware mixer The current implementation ofthe diver does na share mix configuration dat With MIO Console lt 0 if you enable ASIO Direct Monit
44. e associated mix bus tere pats are automaticaly assigned a a group to buses There are some keyboard shorcus that you can use when making Math sxsignments clicking in one ti followed by lt chif cicking in anoter ile wil Sutomaticaly selector deselect all ofthe ties n between the end pln the election will match the ne tate ofthe le tthe second ik location clicking and dragging inthe Matric wll comtinuuly apply the new Sssignment tate each tie you dag over lt Command gt lick dragging wil col the Mari Ccanrncumive Caner Nass rae Mares MIO Console hae fully user configurable channel names The names that you select for your chante wil propagate to all ofthe oer aspecte ofthe MIO Console User interface Due to imitations in the host driver specifica ions the channel names wil no propagate to your applications 2 Us Mobile 1 0 UI ide his allows you to name the channels in meaningful ways The analog inputs can be named to match the sources The Digital VO can be named to match the effects device that you have patched Mbees can be named by the fold back monitor reacts send that they wil eed To mame a channel click on the input path tiles for input channel or the mix bus til ior Mx buses The channel cotiguation window wll appear Shove the MIO console window Fire 3 Chel Cnfaton Window Allo the chanel identification convo wil be st fr thee you clicked on To change the user selectable
45. e mites ether click and hold the asso dated mixer tab or cconta click the aseocated miner tab We have povided an ina set of presets forthe various paramcter bares he presets forthe ouput channels are relatively complete and give you an idea ofthe power and flexibility of thi approach o parameter management We wil be adding pests on 2 regular base check the website for new presets Poe Manacene oF Psers The preset inthe concoe preset library ae saved as standard les on your turd dik This mene that addon to using the commands inthe param fer popup menu you can azo manage the presets rectly from the Finder The presets are ll contained inthe Parameter Library folder that in the ame flder a the MIO Console Application Te Parameter Library folder in the Console Application folder may be an alias to the real Parameter Libary folder so you can move the Farameter Library folder to another location and simply make an listo the folder and place with the console application ameter pes Se Fare 3 Parmeter ly File nthe der 0 Guide ile 0 You can create categories by creating new flders within the folders that appear within the Parameter Library older You can move presets from ane alegry to another by moving the presi les within the hierarchy You can Ska make copies by copying the files You can delete presets by deleting the sociated les Since the presets ate stored as individ
46. e of lacrcal and Electronic Eng eats Ine EEE an Intemational organization that proms standards in the fed of electronics FireWire was standardized a IEE 1394 and pro moted for open licensing in the industry he fst widespread adoption ofthe technology was for DV camcorders where space was ata premium and bus powering was not porcieved as 3 teal ese since al camcorders have bates Sony designed an akerative version ofthe standard pin FireWire connector that provided 1394 based communication with 4p ina much smaller fomfactor The version of the connector sacrificed buspower support and mechanical stably for reduced space requirements Sony dubbed this vesion of IEEE 1394 Link This became the de facto standard inthe DV world and was later added to the EEE 1394 standard Both Link and FireWire reer othe same Underlying standard and are completly Interoperable Obviously Link Guide ile 0 connectors and FireWire connectors cannot he used together without adapt ULN2 uses the FireWire flavor ofthe HEEE1294 connector with amp pine for bus power suppor The uni ship with two Gpin to pin FireWire cables fone that is 05 meters long about 18 inches and the other 4 5m about 145 fect long you want to use ULN 2 with 2 pin FireWire device you will ned o purchave 3 6p to 4 pin adapter cable These cables are sal able from 2 wide varity of real Sources If you are using a pin cable fonnect any device to
47. een the ASIO ouput names and the hardware outs can be adjusted on the fly andthe host may nat match the actual hardare routing The Oupput Channel names reported to the host re the ect mapped hard ware outputs With ULN2 there are 6 ASIO output channels are mapped the hardware in the following order a ile 0 Guide 1 DAW Analog 2 DAW2 gt Analog 3 AWS Mondor 4 DAWA Monitor 5 DAWS Digtal amp DAWG Digtal2 ou can use the table above a a guide to the mapping between ASIO out puts and DAW FireWire channels When you want adjust the dec out Ings in the Outpt Patchy Router ewes znaauas SIO supports enabling and disabling channels Some hosts do this auto matically eg Digial Peformer some hosts provide manual contols Cubase Nuendo and other hose do not provide explicit control for enabling and disabling channels In order to reduce CPU load Mobile LO s ASIO diver takes noice of disabled channels by skipping procesing for those channels For applications that provide manual contol over enabled channels you wil gt the best performance if you only enable the channels you need For applications that automaticaly maintain the enabled chan el you wil ge the best performance if you only asign channels to out pus you realy wantto use and only record enable channels that you intend forecondon ASIO Burren Audio channels ae ransported individually in utr sized chunks The size ofthe audio b
48. en tie you can have diferent digtal sources connected to each ofthe Input con ects at the same time yu use the MIO Console application to select the active input Audio routed Yo the digital opts wil be mirored by both S PIF and AES ouput This allows you to send the same sero pale to twa devices at once We recommend that you use the AES interconnect mechanism to establish the digtal communication between the UEN 2 and cther digital devices he jiter and electrical nose tolerance on AES interconnect is substantially beter than with SIPDIF interconnects The AES interconnect standard i equivalent to balanced audio interconnections I you eed to use SPDIF interconnects ty to se the shares cables you can Sod possible use spe al purpose 75 ohm S PDIF or video cables The RCA connectrs used for SPDIF ate friction fit coaxial connectors When you connect them ensure that they are fully inserted and tight he XLR connectors sed for AES are fully lacking When connecting 0 ther make sue that you align the pis and insert rly When yu remove the connector make sure that you release the lock by pressing the lock release button before you pll the connector out ofthe ULN 2 5 ile 1 0 UI Guide vrecnaren SRC Normally when working wih digital audio anspor you must take care to naire thatall devices communicating with one anther ae syncionized 0 the same audio clock While this isl an important consideration with UULN
49. er This allows us to change and enhance the MobilelO Driver witout having to have thi partes update dhe applications 0suppor ew functionality in Mable UO at lng asthe funconaty ean be mapped onto the coramands specif by ASIO With the curent version ofthe Mobile 10 dive only ane ASIO lent can be atached tthe diver at any one time Tie may change in the ture Wine rue ASIO Datven Put Gots Most ASIO hosts use an ASIO Drives folder located in the same folder ae the host appliation your host doesnot use the standard mechanism for organizing and locating ASIO drivers you wil have to refer to the dacumen aon that accompanies your hos for information about the appropriate Ieeation forthe Mobile 10 ASIO ceive file ASIO Teansrorr ano Saurus Rares The ASIO specification supports a wide vary of audio transport standards but most applications ony implementa small subset ofthe possbliies As practical matt ASIO supports multichannel wanspor of 24 bit audio at vie ually any sample at Many hoss only support a small number of sample ates and may not suppor al ofthe sample rates that are avaiable with the Mobile VO hardware oases Nae ASIO provides 8 mechanism forthe driver to tel the host the names of the channels This mechanism is not dmamic so the Mobile VO driver cannot Update the hosts names ae you adjust the Output Patchbay router A a eau the input channel names are always accurate but the mapping betw
50. ete responsiblity ofthe sto dither the incoming audio to 16 bit samples before recording them if you record 16 bit Ifthe host doesnot dither the samples to 6b they will be truncated by the host when they are recorded For best recording qualty se your host s 24 bit recording option Goce Sources The CoreAudio specification provide the capil for hose to contol the hardware clock source Some host provide a user interface to do this thers do not the host does provide an interface to do this you will be able elect one ofthe Mobile VO external clock sources directly fom the bos If the host doce not provide an Interac you will nd to use the MIO Con sole to selec the extemal clock source Ifyou have selected an extemal clock source using ether the host the console you will nt be able to contol the system sample ate from the computer MIO Console wil aito matically reflect the clock source and sample rate et by the host Mo ile 1 0 UI Guide Troubleshooting Guide Computer Doss Nor See MoaiLe 0 WF yu attach Maile WO to your computer and the computer is unable to communicate withthe Mobile VO hardware there are five baste posible forthe source ofthe problem 1 The Mobile WO i nt powered up 2 The Software snot installed properly The FireWire bus did nt reset comerty 4 The FireWire cable is bad 5 The FireWire hardware has been damaged Mone 10 18 yor powsxsn up he fist thing to check shat the M
51. flexibility of is power system ULN 2 can be powered fom any DC source including bus power in the ange of V to 30V a long ast provides 12 Wat of power The DC inputs on ULN 2 are a2 1nvm coaxial power connector centr postive and a pin XLR con ctor Pin 4 Hot So f you are powering the un with a third party power source and it suplie 9Y the power source wil have to provide 1 4 amps of current Ifyou ae powering the unit with 12Y the power source wil have to provide 1 amp of Curent and so on he ULN2 ships with a world ready 24 volt 2 amp power supply You can plug this supply into any AC power source from 90V to 240V Ha Hz sing an appropriate IEC power cod and t wil supply the proper power to the UN on the 2 1mm coaxial power connector ULN 2 will utomati 9 0 ile WO Guide cally supply the extra power tothe FireWire bus This means that the ULN 2 and fs power supply can be used Yo power other bur powerable FireWire devices ncuding hardive hubs and other ULN 2 uni Since ULN 2 is DC powered you can alzo power up the ULN 2 using the FireWire bus or another DC source The ULN 2 uses 12 Watts of power 0 the device supplying the bus ponver must be capable of sourcing that much power Most desktop Macs provide more than enough power for ULN 2 and fone ather low power device Most laptops provide encugh power for UULN 2 but not enough for ULN 2 and anther bus powered device atthe ame time you are sing 2 Po
52. g of Digtal Performer In order to elect Mobile VO as your interface you must fst select ASIO fem the popup menu a the top of the window ee Figure SS am page 7 Alter you have Selected ASIO you wil be ale to choose Mabile VO ASIO frm the ASI Driver popup men MAS may wa you thatthe driver has not been tested and may cause problems You may safely ignore this warning he Configure Hardware Device dialog provides a user interface ta config ture the clock soure sample rate and buf size forthe Mobile UO ASI shiver Al ofthese setings are saved with your session nd therefore ae the pproprate mechanism for cantoling the driver stings gare 53 DPMAS Congr Hardware Drie og box If you select an extemal clock source from the Clock Source popup ment the extemal source wil determine the sample rate and you will ot be able te conta the rate from the computer licking the Control Panel button wil ring up the Mobile UO Driver pref ences dialog In general you do nat need to use this dialog with MAS since MAS provides a usr interface for enatoling the buf size The Overide Buffer Size checkbox enables MAS to st the butler size the checkbox is unchecked unl MAS will use the diver specied cdefalt buffer size If you check the Override Buffer Sie checkbox MAS vl et the ASIO buffer size to number in the text box to the right of the n n ile 1 0 UI Guide checkbox MAS allows you to set that number to any
53. hatthe volume ofthe ttl signal in both channels is equivalent ofl volume in one channel As you pan from lett right the signals disbuted bbeween the two channels thatthe ttl volume remains constant As with the channel fads the black window above the channel pan kab provides a precise readout of the cunent pan poston and clicking onthe black window wil allow you to type in an exact pan amount Negative umber 100 to 0 indeate et pans and pasitive numba 0 to 100 ind ae right pan Oi center pan lt Option gt clicking the pan koob will turn io center pan and lt com mand gt click ragging the knob wil allow you to adjust the pan postion in finer increment Mure terres ach input has a Mute buton Jabeled M assocated with it When the mute burton i engaged illuminated whit the channel will be muted in the mixer The mute is interpolated so muting 2 channel will at cause audible licks lt Option gt clicking a mate button wil et al of he mutes on the mi bus the same ate arte button you click This allows you to quichly mute all the channels or quickly une al the channel on 2 bus Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 Us ide Soto turroxs ach input has a Solo button abel S associated with it When the slo bbunon i engaged illuminated red only channel that have been soloed Will be mised by the miver The other channels wil efectvely be med As With the mute burton the gain changes assoclatd with soloing of un
54. ide enough power you will sed to use an external power source with Mobile VO The extemal power suply provided with Mobile VO isthe psfct solution if you ate using Mobile UO In an environment where AC pow avallble The extemal power saply will actually provide power tothe bus and canbe wer to power other bur powered penpherals see Other Bus Powered Devices on page 9 FAC power ie not available you wil need to use an external battery based power sauce to power Mable UO Any source that provides 9V 30V and an suppt12 15W of power consumption wil work well with Mobile VO Check with Metic Halo fr specific recommendations When using an extemal battery source DO power Mobile VO directly from the battery not through an verter DON T peer the computer with an extemal Eatery and use the computer to power Mobile UO ding so wall ot resolve yout bus power problems and wil ive you mere limited ran tines f you need to use the external ater with the computer use wo bat teres or split the DC supply atthe batery and power both the Mobile VO and the compute Senne acai Iss When Mabie UO is atached to FireWire bus without any extemal power spplied there isa small current suge ae the Mobile VO power supply charges up Depending onthe fmare revision and model ype of your PowerBook and what other devices are atached oor fallen your com pte this ital connection may tick the power manager inthe computer int thinking that fe ab
55. instalation H this equipment does cause interference to radio ot Television equipment reception which can be determined by turing the Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide equipment off and on the user is encouraged to ty to comec the interfer tee by any combination ofthe following measures Pgh agpantin cet on x eat ren om tat whic orm yo de reaped aetna WARNING Changes r modfiations to this unt no expres approved by the party responsible for compliance could void the uses authority to oper ate the equipment Mobile I O ULN 2 User s Guide Using the ULN 2 Hardware ULN 2 Frome Panel he ULN 2 front panel provides ten segment metering forthe 2 analog inputs and the main ouputs 35 well as knobs and switches to contol the input monitor and headphones sections The meter are fas PM peak read ing meters with auto eceting peak hol Fach input channel asthe ellowing contra Input gain kos Thre 2 postion slant rotry switch whe lows you eon lee an fenced pa Phantom Power enable switch he eich IN el ham poner Ti Enable witch Seabee The aon rg he en oF 28 0 MicITRSowitch The pudebutin vich wich lacs he pu sage The ULM eat nat sagen The Mcp and he DUA The Mic Amp ic opine fr high pin and very low ne with low torn f bu New cocoate asim pin 72 Pash SMe sch ecco PIC ope The Dl amp ic epinised fr high ipadene sures the magnetic age Ts pe comin to he TAG parson of te Near Mobile 1 O UN 2 User s Guide tie OUT
56. is provided by Steinberg SoR und Hardware GmbH and portions ofthe Mable YO ASIO driver are Sti berg Soft und Hardware GrbH wed under license Peak and Deck are trademats af BIAS ne FreWie Macintosh Mac and Mac OS ae regis tered trademark of Apple Computer Inc Linki registred wademark of Sony in ADAT ia registred trademark of Ales Ine Mobile I O User s Guide Table of Contents UULN 2 Inroduction and Overview 1 What itis 1 What thas 1 What you need to we 2 What cones with i 3 Acknowledgements 4 Support Information 5 Warranty 5 Registration 5 Service and Support 6 Using the ULN 2 Hardware 8 ULN 2 Front Panel s ULN 2 Rear Panel il Maing connections tothe ULN 2 2 Analog Autio Connections 2 Making the 14 connection 14 Making the XLR connection 15 Copper based Digital Audio 5 Tmtegrated SRC 16 ack Syne 16 FireWire 7 Power 9 MIO Console 21 MIO Console Overview 2 Analog UO View 24 Optimizing Inpat eves 25 Digital Input Meters 2 Block Diagram 26 System Contol 26 Analog Output Cont 29 Monitor Output Meters 20 Digital Ouput Meters 29 Box Info 29 Miser Pan 30 Mixer Contos Overview 3 Mobile 1 0 User s Guic fe Table of Contents Miner Pane Tabs Channel Fader Channel Meters Channel Pans Mute Buttons Solo Butons Mixer Master Far Mixer Master Mute WIDE Mixers Mix Ouput Rating Pane The Routing Model Ouipat Patchy Deals Patchy Po
57. k to ground In order to do this you can simply use a balanced TRSTRS connector with the unbalanced gear You can alo construct a spe cial cable witha TRS connector and a TS connector In ths cable you ust letthe ing ofthe TRS connector lat Figure 1 TRS oS enlace cable Aeratively the TS connector canbe replaced with an RCA connector for inertacing with gear that has RCA unbslanced interconnect Mtue me 14 connacros When you connect 21 4 plug to ULN 2 jack insert it straight and fam ensuring that the pli uly inserted ito the jac the pl eat fully Inserted you wil get evel shits phase flips distortion ar no sound Mo ile 1 0 UI ide To disconnect a 1 4 plug firmly pl the plug straight out frm the connec ocbody The connectors on ULN 2 ate si so you may have to exert some force to remove the plug Meee me XLR covsecriow When you connect a Male XLR plug to ULN 2 jack ensure that you have aligned the pins with the connector body and insert fmly until the terion tab clic o disconnect the pg pros the metal retention tab fish agains the bax and pll the plug ftom the ULN2 Copren aAsep DIGrTAL AUDIO UULN 2 supports 2 channels of dpa audio over copperbaced connections These connections can be made using ether SPDIF interconnects with the RCA connector or with AES interconnects using the XLR connectors Even hough only one of the AES or PDIFinpurs can be active a ny giv
58. l eer image The safe boot mechanism allows you to back out of firmware update you find thatthe new fmvare has some prblem that was not preset in 2 pe ious version ofthe firmware Metric Halo support may ask you to do this ring toubleshoctng you encnuter any problems Inthe future Matric Halo may change the methods or tools used to find download and accomplish firmware updates the tools change they will bbe accompanied by an updated version ofthis Appendbx Insealing emote update In onder oil a firmware update follow these sep 1 there san associated driver update install the new diver 059 pace he MobieiO Orr and Mable Emblem yur aan ne ler ee your yam er 105 X Date cick the der tae page and we the Ale tere pet be FID Der psage 2 Reboot your compat 3 Make sure your Mobile VO is powered up and connected to your computes 4 Run the MIO Console 5 Select tpt rmmare from the Utes Menu You wil se the folowing chooee fe dialog Appendicies Fir 57 Update Firmware Chose Dig 6 Select the new Firmware flo install on your Mabile VO hard wate and click the Choose button rma files wil be supplied by Metric Halo with a name that contains the mare version limber in the lowing format lt fimwarevetsion_nuber gt mic firmware Only valid fevare fies wil be selectable in the dialog hoe ln O59 only valid es wil be displayed in he dalog ba he Coneole wil find your Mobile VO onthe FireWire bu
59. labe for mixing The mixer outputs are Sent othe Output Ptchbay for routing to physical out ut The numberof mix busses varies withthe Mobile VO hardware model land the sample rate The Mobile VO ULN2 supports 6 mono stereo mix buses tall supported sample ates Every physical input is multed fram the routemixer section and sent ddreetly over the FireWire bus tothe ASIO host Regardless of any ming outing or multing that you configure in the hardware you can always record al ofthe inputs with your DAW As you can see from this simple high level view the Mobile VO routing architecture suppore direct routing of any Input to any out and also mi ing of any set of inputs to multiple mixers The outputs ofthe miners can be routed 9 any ouput or any st of outputs for hardware mulls ll hardware inputs are aalable othe hort As turns out the MixenRouter in Mobile VO is quite extensive and the Simple use itrface ides 2 lot of complexity Figure 33 As you can see fom this schematic diagram ofthe mixerhoutr the Mixer in Mobile WO i a fully crse pointed mati While we are presenting the mixer fa you ae ast of mona and stereo mixers the actual underlying sruc ture ica ull matrix This means thatthe mixer ie ready for suround and mul channel maroc mixing ty Te schematic provides an accurate rep esenfaton that shows the signal flow through the mixer and int the router with ll analog and digital gan pints represen
60. lanced TRS conner Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide ULN 2 Rear Panel iar BUN Rear Fel he ULN 2 rear panel features 2 channels balanced MICILINEINSTRUMENT inputs on Neutrik Combo connectors Each ip has 24 9A conver 11038 NR Men wae aes hn 07h in aly hh gow note amps with pt 68 dB pn fy he TRS con ec evita gue inpotance charactritir Mi pat 23K Of hae 200 Oks eile 4 Pratom power on XLR comer bed ao er 2 whe po en i Tec UNT Tn Mowe be UN Deo beted ar tie me ee 2 channels balanced TRS main ouput Each output ha 24 he DIA converters 1208 SNR 2 Channels balanced Monitor up with front pane level conta Cone hese out racy to power amps orl powered monors Apia XLR power por for se with broadcast bats Conte with ay XL power yam ih helen a Wordcloc inpuvoutput on BNC connectors 256 Wordlockinpuutput on BNC connsctors Stereo SPDIF inputousput on RCA connectors n ile WO ser s Guide Stereo AESEBU inptiouput on XLR connectors IEEE 1394 FireWire ports 400 Mb 1 2 1mm DC power jack 30y center postive 15 Wats Making connections to the ULN 2 There ae five cles of connections you can make tothe ULN 2 hardware 1 Analog Audio 2 Copperbased Digital Audio 3 Clock Syme 4 Freire 5 Power ANALOG AUDIO CONNECTIONS he analog VO connections onthe ULN 2 have been enginsered fr maxi mum flexibility in that they support both balanced and unbalanced connec tio
61. le 1 O User s Guide Table of Contents The FireWire Hardware hasbeen Damaged When I Switch to MIO Console Plyback Stops 0S 9 Where Ate the Extensions ASIO Drives Folders Ground Loops Firmware Update Problems Bus Powering Mobile UO Not enough power on the bus Screen Backlight Issues Other Bus Powered Devices Appendix I Updating your Firnare Tasting a Hrmaare update Rolling hack your finavate Instructions on the OS 9 only MiOBondlastalir Tool obsolete Tnstaling a frmare update Rolling hack your finavate Indes 4 4 ss 89 3 92 34 34 96 9 Mobile 1 O User s Guide Table of Figures Figure 1 ULN 2 Unit Figure 2 IEC Power Cou Figure 3 External Power Supply Figure 4 05 miter pin 139 cable Figure 5 4 5 meter 6 pin 130 cable Figure 6 Rack Ears pure 7 ULN 2 Front Panel pre 8 ULN 2 Rear Panel Figure 9 Teiescoiag Shield Cable for Instruments Figure 10 XLR to Balanced TRS Cable Figure 11 TRS to TS unbulanced cable Figure 12 MIO Console Figure 13 MIO Console Ouput Patchy Figure 14 View Panel Pane Selector Bar pure 15 Analog VO Panel ipue 16 Channel Label pure 17 Channel Level Meter Figure 18 Block Diagram 26 pre 19 System Contos 26 Fipue 21 Sample Rate Popup Mea 2 Figure 20 Clock Source Pop up Men 2 Figure 22 WC Out Popup 2s Figure 23 DI Source Popup 2s Figure 24 DISK Bute 28 Figure 25 Lock Indicators 29 Figure 26 Box Info 30 Figure 27 Mixer
62. ly you should take advantage ofthat fy Most hosts that support controling the buffer size will automaticaly save your saleced buf size with your sex Mobile VO supports buffer sizes that are powess of wo This means that you an use bufers that are 64 128 256 12 1024 or 2048 samples long Some hosts that allow you to change the buffer size donot properly follow the ASIO spec and wil let you spcly bute sizes that ae nt supported by the driver if your host allows you to select a buifer size please make sue that you choose one of the szes that Mabie UO suppors Digital Performer isan example ofa host that lets you st the size but ets you Se io values that ae nt valid If your host does not suppor sting the bur size it wil generally use the buffer size thatthe Mable VO ever commends The default ule sie for Mobile VO is 1024 samples per ule he Driver Options dialog supported by most ASIO hosts provides 3 popup menu tallow you to st the default butler size reared by the Mobile 10 driver othe ASIO host Most host wil take notice of new st ting immediately but some wil not your host doesnot appear to notice thatthe buffer size changed eg the latency doesnot change you will have to select another ASIO driver and then switch back to the Mable UO diver a ile 1 0 UI Guide forthe changes to tke effect Cubase VST Is an example ofa host hat wll otnatice the change automatically Saunt Sie The Mobil
63. mel ecension This extension enhances the Mac OS operating y em to provide spor for communicating with the Mobile YO hardware The Mobile 10 divers implemented as aKEXT due to the requemens of CoreAl da he KEXT is provided in a Mac 8 X bundle called MobilelODrvecket This bundle i inal in the System bary Ecensions folder Since tis flr is managed by the system you wil have to have administrator access onthe cam ater install he diver he CorwAudio dvr provides the requir information fr Cae t de over and contol Mobil VO Once the diver has been isalld CreAudlo wil automaticaly find Mebile VO unis a they ate atached tothe computer Sand will publish the valablty ofthe harcore to all ineresed CoeAuco ne CoreAudo is inherenty arin iterace mere than one Credo host an communicate with the hardware atthe same time Muliple hose can recieve the audio fom a Mobile WO atthe same time and multiple hosts ean nd audio tothe Mobile UO atthe same time When muliple ors send aul to the hardvare a the same ime CoreAuc wil utpmatically mix te ul before ite ent tothe Mebile VO While ths muticent operation ta very co feature of CreAudlo and ean be very hep for mary operations you must be careful about unintended interactions npc very easy to se up the ystem such that scund fom program ike ema clint and eter prducvty als wll be mined ino your mi audo steam hs happens when you st up he default audi output ath so that
64. name ofthe chan simply ype the new ame The name wil be updted inthe console when you do one a the fl toning hing tithe lt retum gt key This will up the name and amie the window 2 Hirth cab gt key This wil pdt the name and witch othe next hare inthe Hi cahit gt lt ab This will update the name and switch tthe p ous chanel inthe le 4 Selec any cher channel using the popup menus othe o baton nthe channel configuration This wil update the name and switch the new chanel elec ou can demise the window witout updating the channel name by clicking i clove box You can alo select the tere linking stat fram Linking popup menu in the channel configuration window The sate wil be updated in the console slong with the channel name 6 46 Mobile 1 0 UI Guide The channel identification conrls deny which channel you ar adjusting The Chana Tp perp men ats a ch eee pt tr reding nen peo proiour ham the soca nen peo tno Ramin he aoc lt Marne Pasawerex Porur The entire state ofthe Matix canbe saved to and recalled from the Console Parameter Library Sytem The basic functions of the Parameter Popp con wl are documented inthe nest section se Parameter Popup Controls on age 46 Since you are very like to have a number of racking and mixing Configurations you use over and over again the Parameter Popup fr the Matrix is areal imesaver This contol appeas inthe tp left comer of
65. ns wih a wide range of input and ouput levels and a wide range of matching impedances This means that ULN 2 handles sources frm mic Tevet to line level and rom mic impedance to gular impedance With hatin ind there are a umber of aspects ofthe design that you should take ito ccount when interfacing with ULN 2 There are wally thee dsinct analog input stages avaliable in a ULN 2 input 1 The Mic amp which i fe bythe XLR portion af the Combo con 2 The Dl amp which fed by the TRS potion ofthe combo connec 4 The TRS rtun ack This i line level input which ie the shortest path tothe AD converte Each input paths optimized for specific sources but each is capable of han dling a wide variety of sources For example both the Mic amp and the lamp are capable of receiving Lin level inputs Aditnally the inp i Mo ile 1 0 UI id capable of dl of gain and can be used with dynamic microphones phan om power is only available with the Mic Amp Feel free to experiment with the diferent input paths and choose the one which wads est fo a given application Whenever possible use alanced interconnects with ULN 2 The perfor mance of balanced interconnects fe much higher and much more resin to noise interference and elecical pow winng problems The expense of lance interconnects not substantially higher than unbalanced connec ions sf the gear that you are interfacing wit support balanced conn If you
66. nto section isthe Digital put Meter sc tion This group of meters provides lve metering fo al ofthe gal nputs fn the UIN 2 These meters have the same response characteristics asthe Snalog input meters and show you the aud activity on gta input chan els 1 2 going fom let ight Fare 1 HO Comoe LN Bleck aga The Block Diagram shows the asi signal path of the ULN 2 Svsraw Cowrvots Flare Stem Cots The System block provides conto that adjust various system level aspects ofthe UN hardware 1 The Clack Source popup ment contrls the system clock source used bythe hardware for digtl syncvonization and ving the Internal cue ULN 2 to et nara dck You mut ce hi you wart to se he sare rte om the UN W any ether dock ica tan sch he cece nt sn ou te ange in 6 Mobile 1 O ULN 2 User s Guide are 20 Cok Sure Ppp Ment sample rite snce the sale rat etre bythe earl dock WC 44 48 dace UING to dock of of a etal Word Clack Soc toga rs eg D508 WC 88 96 dace ULN 2 to dck of of a etal Word Clack Source at uber eg t C6008 WO256 44 96 dre UN eo dock ff ofan arn 5 Clock Source tog ta eg 2508 WOA256 88 96 dre UN to dock off ofan eer 5s Clock Source at die rate og t 008 Digi 44 48 directs UL to dock ofthe seid tare dpa Ips bean a eg 3k S08 Th lows operon oe ga pe witht Sd ram es tt py oo ign 88 96 dre ULN2 to dock off the sed reo ge Ips doe rat og O00 Th allows aprsn of he i iput hour Gnd fom do
67. obile VO sin fact powered up IF Mobile VO i powered up and booted propery the Power Sample Rate and Locked front panel indicators will be Hllumnnated these indestors ae ot illuminated the Mobile WO isnot powered properly or the unit im ware hasbeen comupted you determine that yu ate powering Mobile VO properly and the inicatore are not illuminated you wll need to contact Matic Halo suppor Ifyou ate bus powering the Mobile O there 2 possibilty that you have coverioided the power rating ofthe power source Please se the wouble shooting section Not enough power on the bus on page 87 for deals on troubleshooting thie problem the Mobile VO is propesly powered then check the next possibly Sorreane Is Nor Irate Phoventy In crder forthe computer to properly communicate withthe Mobile VO the rious components ofthe driver sofware need tobe installed correct the sofware sot installed comecth the communication between the com puter and Mobile UO wl fal in varous ways Mobile 1 0 UI Guide FOROS Tlf the Mobile O Enabler fle te not installed in the System Folder Extensions folder the system will not register the attchment ofa Mobile 10 device ta the bus oD Thr ymgtom tao prasant copy of te MbillO rer le ested the wrong loon ee bao egies hum erence ern en ees 2 the MobilIO Driver fle ie not installed inthe system Folder Extension foldoy the MIO C
68. onsole will not Staup and the ASIO diver wil not connect propery the Sy Flderrloe ler md he ecrmect the ne 2 Secomputer 2 you have accidentally puta copy ofthe MobilelO Driver lin the same folder withthe MIO Console application or with any of the ASIO diver fs the symptoms wil be similar to what you soe with condition 1 The Console ofthe ASIO dever wll appear to tun properly butt will 9 se the box connected othe compute hy lacon ter han tb Spat Fle bearer op See rer delete om your dk on evry lear ere 2 User s Guide Mo ile 1 0 UI lest ea dr wth PHO once pain ony ft 44 the Mae 10 ASO fle not nll in the appropiate ole foreach of our hoy the comsponding host ll pt how the Male VO aan avaiable ASO diver MesASIO hoe se ole called ASO Diver located nthe same ede asthe st cabo your speci hos doesnot ure i convertion yo tl fave to check he documeeaton hat accompantd your st reonac the manfachrer of te hot fr asian seroma lr or enh oo il on er eompae Fon osx 4 IThe Mobile ODrverkext ie nt propery installed inthe Syste Ubraryxtensins folder of your computer In this ease Thespian of th ta he roe Pel Freire ctr Sk ae ut he Meble YO doesnot per a 3 Sound Oupt device Be Sound pl ft pte Preerener pation Pore dot pes n te Api aaMID Senp Apcion Innted ore root dhe ents he Mable YO to con ithe software i instaled propel check the nex possibly Tae Pete oes o1o Nor maser consec
69. ool which was only avallablein 89 please check the very end of hie Append You may have had the experience of updating the flmwvare for your com puter inthe pas As you may know this can be a stresul procedure since here fea moment while the old fmware i being replaced bythe new rm ware and if the process is interrupted you may be lft with no femware at Si Mati Halo has addressed this tsue with 2 safe firmware upte pro cedure The Mobile VO uses a dual boot procedure The fst boo happens inthe fist 100m about 0 1 seconds and has been extensively tested tis mat enough to do twa things 1 team boot the secondary boot mage 2 ean update the secondary hoot iage over the FireWire bus o 2 Actually the primary boot fmware is much smart than that The box is completly functional on the primary boot but al af the more advanced fas ures ofthe box ar enabled by the second boot The fmware revision ofthe primary boots 1 1 00 As soon asthe primary boot image has booted it checks the secondary boot Image and ifthe secondary boot image is installed and not contd nary way the system Immediately boots the secondary Image H the secondary image Is comupted of you have held down the frontpanel Mute button lt dring the inital boot process the Mobile VO will not boot the secondary image and will stayin Safety Boot Mode This 2 mechanism you can use if you instal firmware that as problems and you need to back uporta
70. oring yu will be able to change the sate of the MIO Miser without the changes being tefleced inthe MIO Console user interface For basic mulivack foldback MIO Console provides detailed contol and metering and may provide a mocesveamlinedineface for contain fold back mis Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 User s Guide The excng part of ASIO direct monitoring is that it enables ape ype cross faded punch when doing overdue Host that suppor ape ype monitoring nd ASIO Direct Monfring will automatically me the input channel in the monitor mixer when the vanspor Is in playback and then will unmute the monitor channel when the engineer punches in The Mobile 10 s interpolated miner provides clicks cros faded wanstions for ppunch ns and punch ous allowing you to accamplish clean wansparent verb Inonder to tke advantage ofthe direct monitoring features you wil need ta configure bath your ASIO hot and your Mobile VO Enable ASIO Direct Monitoring in your host Refer tothe doc entation that come with your host for details arin hi chap ter we provide deta about the ASIO implementation of sme of the primary ASIO hess That documentation Includes details about ASIO Diet Monitoring 12 Use the Output Patchbay ce Output Patchbay Details on page 4 in MIO Console to route the appropriate Mix Busses to Your monitor output path eg Analog 1 2 er Montoe UR The ASO Direct Mentor wil apy Your monitored ip hanna
71. os cn page 50 for deta ow wel switch tothe Miser View Notice the Mix Tabs onthe let are nw labeled Monitor UR and Effect end UR Alo notice the fader marked Daw 1 2 on the right Wel use this fader to conta the playback level ofthe DAW tacks we want to cverdub aginst if you have signals runing to Mobile VO you should see activity on both the input meters and the mixer meters By default the mixer faders ne ae at unity gain athe mutes are engaged We can unmufe all the mixer channels by holding the option key and click ing one ofthe mutes All ofthe channels wll ume But forthe time being well keep the Digital UR fader ned 7 gre Hendon ier Now we can set up a dry headphone mix Once we have sic balances st we ean switch to the Elects Send mixer by clicking its mix tab In the Efects Send miner we can unmute each channel and et ts end level tothe reverb for we can use the Mixer params popup see Mixer Fane Tabs on page 36 to copy the mix fom the Headphone mixer 10 use as 2 starting paint To copy mix parameters fam one mixer to another 1 lice and old the mix tab fo the mixer you want copy ram A popup menu will appear 2 Choose Copy Parameters 53 Now click and hold onthe mix tab you want to copy to 44 Choose paste parameters 5 The mix parameters have now been copied Now we can can go back to the Monitor mixer and unmute the Dig fader The reverb should now be heard in the headphone mi
72. ou can because yu ae likely to find that makes your ther digtal gear sound beter However there are some devices that ether must be the clock master or work better they are the clock master Far these devices choove the clock por which i most appropiate for the device For example many DAT machines dette clock aver thee digtal audio connection AES of PDIP For these machines you would connect othe AES of SIPDIF pot on Mobile VO and choose Dighh 4 1 4 fr single ate or Digln 8 296 fr double at inthe MIO Console clock source popup For more information about configuring the clock source se System Con roe on page 29 SINGLE SPEED CLOCKING VS DOUBLE SPEED CLOCKING he dfernce between single speed tx and double speed x clocking is faded 2 fundamental made change in Mobile VO The sample rate does at vary continuously between Ak and 88 2 but changes discontinuously when the double speed modes set inthe hardware When Mobile WO i running on intemal clack thi mode change ie handled transparently when you specifiy what sample rate the box should use When Mobile VO is running on external clock it cannot detemnine in avance which mode to use so you ned ttl itwhat mode appropriate for your external loc source You communicate this information by select ss Mobile 1 0 UI Guide ing the proper extemal clock source Each extemal clock source comes in two diferent favors oa eoor 8 where the Soon
73. ough them In order to maximize performance you wantto ensure that low speed ddvices ae not used 0 join high spoed devices In practice this generally Mo de ile 1 0 UI means that you should atach your ULN 2 directly to your computer or heough a high speed hub To connect ULN 2 to your compte simply plug a FireWire cable into the UULN 2 and into the computer The FireWire bus provides path fr ll com munication between the computer and ULN 2 audio contol and meter dd ULN2 auto transport takes advantage of FireWire suppor for fochronous ransmision in which the ULN 2 can reseve a dedicated amount of band wid onthe bus far moving audio samples Since the audio must be tane mitted ona regular bars o ensure continuous playback and recording the isochronous mode i perfect Conto changes and meter data are transnited using seynchronous transac tions onthe FireWire bus This transmission approach makes use of the unt served bandwidth on the bus and competes with things ike FireWire hard ek acestes forte Under normal circumstances hist completelytane parent tothe user If the bus becomes overloaded you may find that disk Sccesses and meter updates slow down Ifyou are experiencing bus over Toads you can always add a second FireWire bus with athid pay FireWire ard PC Card or PCI card depending on your machin and oflead one or more devices tothe second bs Power One of ULN 2 great strengths ithe
74. out to lose power In this circumstance the power manager wil shutdown the computers backlight The computer has not rahad or gone sles only the backlight hasbeen shut down Mo ile 1 0 UI There doesnot seem to be anyway to tum the backlight back on without put ting the machine to sleep The workaround fortis condition isto put the machine sleep ether by closing the i or pressing lt command gt shif 0 aerol and then waking it up again withthe Mobile VO still tached This wll mot happen f the Mobile VO te extemally powered With early Traium PowerBooks specially with erly versions of Apple s firmware spinning up the CDROM or hard disk while bus powering Mable VO may trigger the sereen backlight sue We recrmmend that you remove all medi from the CDYDVD dive and wt the hard disk to never sleep when you ae bus powering Mobile VO with these machines Ommen bus Poweren Devices Mobile UO consumes enough power that tis very unlikely that you wil be able to successilly bus power Mabile VO and any other bus powered device except fora ub fom the same compte you plan on using other bbus powerable devices with your camputt you will need to ether sel power your other devices or sel power the Mobile UO is probably esto ise the Mobile UO power supply in this situation since Mobile YO wil then provide approximately 30 Wats of power to the bus roughly 3x what most Potable Macs wll supply This willl you to power all the
75. package when you open i please confact Metic Halo or your desler immediately for asitance Acknowledgements The Mobile UO product line i the result of a emendous amount of wok to lt elvera word changing presiact UENC2 would tbe what ft mt he fs ofS rave ew wh worked eos ara sleet Mabe VO We Specially want to thank the ole who did focused bean testing on the ext elec the hardware nd software sod found ad helped oYscve 3 um Ber oft usu Ed bet ai Harvey Tom Conan Omen Maron Me jon Mee ro Hons Hy Rebs Dovid Wats Jt eat at fae Dov Ds Cotte iy Bam Cun Tyo tM Ch Fyrs Lee Gite Sean Way lend Myst Hes ar Maney an Las Mo ile 1 0 UI Guide Support Information Warranty he ULN 2 hardware fe covered by a manufacturer s warranty against mani facturing defects The dtl of thi waranty ae described in a separate enclosed document This waranty is applicable o product purchased in the USA Product purchased in oer region are covered by a warranty adnin istered bythe dstibutr for that region andthe terms wil be ast forth na separately enclosed document Regitetion In onde to receive warranty service you must ester the product with Mat fic Halo This may be done at any ime with proo o puchase but we trongly recommend that you register with Metric Hal a som ae you pur hase your unt There are a couple of practical reasons fortis 1 Your produc will be restored with us and this repsration can be lund Se pr
76. provides level metering forall of the dgtal ouput on the UULN 2 These meters have the same responce characteristics as the analog output meters and show you the audio activity on digtal cusp channels 12 Bax sro he Hox Inf section ofthe panel in he lower sigh hand comer ofthe win dow shows you information about the curently coanected and selected UULK 2 unit This secon displays the Serial Number Mode normation and 2 a0 ile 0 Guid Fimware revision ofthe connected box as wall asthe DSP lsd onthe unt Allof his information can be useful in wying to tack down any connection probleme that may aie Fire 24 Bon If there sno information displayed inthe Box Info section the sofware is at communicating properly with the ULN 2 hardvare or there Is no UULN 2 present onthe FrWine bus the FireWire light on the front panel ofthe ULN 2 is Juminated but the box infomation does net appear inthe console window itis very key that the software has not been installed prope Ithis the case please reer the instalation instructions for details on how to propely inal the sof are Also please ensure that there are no copies ofthe MabilelO Driver in the same folder asthe MIO Console application or any ofthe AIO divers that you wll use with an ASIO host Wi onthe other hand the FireWire ight on the font panel of the ULN 2 is ot iuminated the boxe not communicating propery with the computer Please check the cabling of your
77. pup Contras Patchy Parameter Popup Conta Routing Matix Details Lopcal Description Configuring Channel Names in the Matrix Matrix Parameter Popup Parameter opp Contals Popup Commands Popup Presets Finder Management of Presets Persistent Suite Management Applications ching Considerations Single speed clocking vs double speed locking Example Setup Which device isthe Clack Master Effet for Teacking Seting up the routing Configuring ASIO Hosts Mae 0S 9 About ASIOM Technology ASIO Basics How the ASIO Driver Wark Where the ASIO Driver File Goes 0 0 0 0 Mobile I O User s Guide Table of Contents AASIO Transport and Sample Rates Channel Names Channel Enables ASIO Butters Seting the ASIO Butter Size Sample Size Clock Sources ASIO Direct Monitoring Configuring Nuendo Configuring Cubase Configuring Logie Coatigring Digital Performer Selecting Mobile UO Enabling Channels ASIO Direct Monitoring Configuring Spectro Configuring Core Audio Hosts Mac OSX About CoreAudio Technology CoreAudia Basis How the CoreAudio Driver Works CCoreAuio Transport and Sample Ries Channel Names Chanel Enables CCoreAulio Bute Seting the Core Audio Buller Size Sumple Size Clock Sources Troubleshooting Guide Computer Docs Not Soe Mobile WO Mobile UO snot powered up Sofevace fs Not Installed Properly FOROS 9 For OX The Fie Wire ts did ot ese corey The FieWite Cable is Bad Mobi
78. rer When a device is plugged into the FireWire bus a FireWire bus reset occurs automaticaly The bus reset interrupts bus activity and reconigues the bus fo that ll devices on the bus become aware of all the other devices onthe bus Sometimes the recet does not complete succesfully and the bus becomes partally hung In ths ease the FireWire indicator onthe front panel ofthe Mobile WO wll no be illuminated When the FireWire nd or on the ron pane isnot illuminated the Mabile VO cannot anspor sudo verte FireWire bu Generally this condition can be fixed by disconnecting the Mabile UO from the bus and reconnecting ft a Guide ile 1 0 UI I the disconnectheconnect cycle does not fx the problem anether device on the bus may be interfering with the proper operation ofthe bus If you have other devices onthe bus try disconnecting them from the bus and aly sing the Mobile VO if moving other devices from the bus solves the prablem tis key that there ta problem with ther ne of the devices you removed or wth one of the cables connecting the devices Yul need oot the problem com ponent if removing the other devices from the bus does no fx the problem check the next possibilty Te Pens Cate Bad Metric Halo provides two high quality overspeed FireWire cables for use With Mobile 10 and we recommend you use them For various reasons you may decide to use other cables than the anes provided by Metic Hal Under ideal cumst
79. rest of your devices without any concer of running out of poner 0 fe Appendicies Appendix Updating your Firmware The Mobile VO ks a complex device with a complex DSP based signal pro cessing and conto architecture One ofthe major sengts of Mobile VO s design that the operating system ofthe box can be uppraded at any time bby updating the firmware Te fmware provides data to the hardware upon stem boo that configures both fundamental aspects ofthe hardware and the operating system forthe box This data sored ina memery device on the Mobile VO motherboard The data can be updated at any time but t wl be maintained indefinitely even without any power being applied tothe Mobile VO Since the hardware iself can be reconfigured by the fmware this approach allows Merc Halo to make majr enhancements to Mobile VO without any Physical changes to the hardware Inthe past we have used sofware Seployed fimare update to increae the FireWire access speed provide independent heaphone channel and improve the converter sound quality vers already exceptional characte Since thefimwate updates exist simply as data they can be sent to you in arity of way whether va CD email or download fom our website The MOCconsole Application provides 3 builtin tool to update fimwvare det fom the console The following section describes how to we the buiin tool W you need information about the previous version ofthe Fire Upaiate t
80. s 24 be 110 d8 Dynamic Range ND converters 24 bit 120 dB Dynamic Range DA converters Selectable stereo Digital Inputs AESEBU or S PDIF Stereo Digital Ouputs AESEBU and SIF Sample Rate Conversion SRO on Digal YO itn 80 bit fully interpolated mul bus mixer for near 220 Tateney foldback of lint channels and all DAW buses smut ously Full rns point outer for VO management Word Clock 1x 256 Front Panel Metering for Analog Inputs and main ups Full cnsole metering of every channel and mix bus Total recall of every console parameter What you need tous it Computer C4 Powerbook Gor Gf recommended ae OS 921 and Mac OSX Porpheral FireWire Adaptor Software an ASIO2 or Cora comps hor cha Claes Nosed Lope Raia Dig Perormer Deo Pos or ASO direc monzorngtazed luck anf oetibig an spp Sniut appar ASI dover matrng Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide umes with i Your ULN 2 package contains the following items One ULN 2 unit ne IEC Power Cord appropriate fr your area es Fae 2 16 ower Cord One 24a 48 watt world eady extemal power supply Fare tera owe Sap One 0 5 meter IEEE 1394 6 pin FreWire Cable Mobile 1 O ULN 2 User s Guide One 4 5 meter IEEE 1394 6 pin FireWire Cable igre 5 45 meter pin 284 able To Rack Ets w fasteners pan igre tacts MO Software CD ROM This ULN 2 Uses Manual Warranty Registation Card tfany of thes items are mising frm your
81. s and begin send ing commands to While the update is taking place the console will freeze and when the Console is finshed updating the rmware wil begin responding agnin We recommend that you qut the Console and unit again The Console should show the new fimware revision information in the Bex Info area ofthe console window 1n 05 9 copy any included Mobile VO ASIO Driver into the ASIO folders of the audio applications you want to use reboot your comput and youre ready ogo 8 Rolling tack your Bmnware you nd that you have problems with any gven release you can always back toa previous release by downloading a package fram bniputwwewlabs com cominio and following the update instructions in that package Please do not rll bck the fmivare to an eater version than wae originally supplied with your uni unlesinructed to do so by Mac Halo Instructions on the OS 9 only MIOBoodastaller Tool obsolete Metric Halo provides a fmware update too that allows you to downoad an Updated fmware image ta the Mobile UO from your compte The fll ing section describes how to use the previous Mac OS 9 only version of the fimware update too called MIOBoothstaller You may have had the experiance of updating the fimvate for your com puter inthe past As you may know this can be a stesul procedure since here fea moment while the old firmware i being replace by the new fir are and ifthe process is inrrupted you may be lt with no fmware at
82. select AIO from the Spectra Audio VO menu _Aftor ASIO has boen ected you configure the ASIO driver fram the ASIO Driver Configuration dialog Selec the the Configure Hardware com mand fom the Audio VO menu to show the ASIO Driver Configuration ddalog Fire 5 peta Aadla UO men Faure peta S10 Dre onion og To use Mobile VO with Specrafon select Mabie 1O ASIO from the AIO diver popup renu ter you have select the diver you can et the Sample Rate fom the Sample Rate popup menu Specrafoo supports all of Mobile V s sample ates Uc the flit Driver Configuration bution to adjust the ASIO bur sie SpecaFoo adjusts the butte siz as Soon as you changeit SpectaFoo curently uss ll the available hardware channels for instant mating so there eno way to enable or disable ASIO channel n Guide ile 1 0 UI Configuring CoreAudio Hosts Mac OS XI Anour CoREAUDIO TECHNOLOGY CoreAudio ts Apple Computers technology tandad for interfacing appi ations to multichannel audio hardware with professional quality Apple defined the standard and made tthe primary interface for audio in OS Xt provides the mechanism for making high esolution mut channel Towrlatency connections berween audio hardware and audio applications on Mac 08x All Mac 0 X computer applications provide support for communicating with dio hardware via CoreAudio As such Iwas the natural standard
83. sooing 2 channel ar fully interpolated and wil not cause audible clicks lt Command gt clicking 2 solo button will exclusively solo the associated channel The lt command gt click wll automatially clear the sol state ofl ther channels onthe mic bus lt Opton gt cicking a solo button wil et ll fof the calor on the mos bus to the same state as the burton you ec Tis allows you quickly sol all the channels or quickly unsoo all the chan telson a bus Moa Masren Faves The Fader that person the right side ofthe miner pane isthe Mix Mater Fade This fader conto the overall bus level ofthe mix bus Operationally its exactly the same as the channel faders sce Channel Fades on page 32 Each Mix bus inthe systom has 24 dB of headroom above full cal the summing point ofthe mix bus is clipping you can pl the mi ut clipping hy dropping the Master fader a lang a the sum paint i clipe lg by ls than 24 Moser Masrox Mere Each mix bus has master mute buton above the master fader that allows you to mute the output ofthat ne This mite e interpolated WIDE Mans As was desrbed before the intgyated mites in ULN 2 are WIDE that is they allow you to mix every aallable input channel oth hardware chan als and FireWire channels together in the widest case the mixer will have 10 faders tallow you to contol the gains fo al ofthe input channels The MIO concole window ie only wide enough to accommodate 18 faders plus the Ma
84. ster fader Hf you have enabled more channels than wil fin the fwindow the MIO console wil automatically depay 2 scrollbar atthe bot tom ofthe Mixer pane Use this scrobar ta contol which fades are vise at any given time The width of the scrollbar indicator shows you how many 3 46 Mobile 1 0 UI Guide ofthe enabled channels are visible at any given time The scolar wl uto matically be hidden if you reduce the numberof inputs tothe mixer below 19 channels orf you swatch oa diferent moxer that has less than 19 chan els enabled i Uae ing ig yl psp Tg hy apis nse ce ah at LER tals cat ga oa nate Soc Sorc Senta ny Toate peers oaianses oir Erotant es ee fagunas scot seSiotimsemes mesos Ere 2 mony nd nd te eat Taye nt sin wager ENT ee alc ck i 1 Roem ne ce sears meet care pte Sees ete hin aetanie yeceevanete saci sig es ig ne So einer sea W O ULN 2 User s Guide 2 Guide ile WO Mixy OuruT ROUTING PANEL he third panel in the MIO Console window isthe Mix Output Routing panel This panel is what you use to acces the powerful outing features that you woot find anywhere lee The Routing Matix portion ofthe panel lets you dynamically contol the configuration ofthe WIDE mixing engine and ka configure the channel names forthe hardvare You aces this panel by licking on the MEV Output outing ston ofthe view panel selector bar atthe top af the console window igre 30 M
85. t of ownership your prodit i ever foto stolen 2 Matic Halo aggressively updates ULN 2 ona egular basis and we will eep you informed of updates ae they become wvalale In order to regser your ULN 2 you can send in the enclosed registration cad via mal or fx Mail Ads Fax Number Alteratvely if you have item access you can use our automated regis tion webpage at pune mblabs commioegiter ile 0 ser s Guide Service and Support If yu have problems configuring or using your ULN 2 and you need help plea contact our suppor group We offer upport via email a well a per uppor an the Mable UO Users Group maling li For email suppor end email Tosubscribe tthe ULN 2 Users Group mailinglist ota peruse the archives gto ntpmail msi edulmalimanisinfomabileio Finally you can always find the latest info and updates for ULN 2 atthe Mt ric Halo website Inaputwewemblabs convnio Safety Compliance his equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for 3 class 8 digial device pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules These limits ae designed to provide reasonable protection against hamul interference in 3 residential Installation This equipment generates uses and can radiate ado fequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance wath the insvuction manual may cause harmful intererence to radio communica tons However there Is no guarantee that intrierence will not occu in prtculr
86. ted Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide Figur 3 Compete ew af he Maile UO Matic Miner Ourrur Parcupay DETAUS The Ouput Pachbay allows you choose the signal sources to send tothe sardware ouput You can feed any ouput fram yur choice of a mix bu 3 tarda inp or 2 FireWire inp from the compute Percunay Poru Cavznots The cup patchbay i the set of popup menus onthe let side of the panel Each popup menu comesponds ta the hardware output that labelling he channel that you choose from the popup menu wil dive the associated hardware ouput Since the ouput patchhay is fully cross pointed you can easly cansruct dec routes fam hardware input to hardware output for standalone con eter operation routes from te host sing the DAW channels tothe out pul for direct dubbing and monitoring fom the compar and rote from the mixer to hardware output fo foldback monitoring and effects sends The output patchhay even les you send the same channel to multiple out pus which makes telly simple to create channel mul You ean use this n oa ile 1 0 UI Guide send multiple copies ofan aux group to diferent fects devices manage monitoring on multiple monitor systems tig and small montr on analog outputs and record on digital ourpts send he ame monitor mic to muliple ouput for multiple performers record safety mixes on digital twotack recorders while malirack recording the harddrive To choose a source for an
87. ternal device to se tinea clack and st the Mable VO clock source ta digital or word lod Remember to choose the appropiate clock ate ingle or double for the sample rate you wll be working a ow that all ofthe digtal devices are plying nicely with each othe lets ake a ook at same possible applications wath ths stp EFFECTS FOR TRACKING Many perirmes especialy singers ind it easier to gta good take if they have some sweetening eft in their headphone mix while tracking These wll usualy be temporary effects and will nt asccesarily make ino the final mix but they can make the difference between a good take and aad ake In this example we wil be using an efects device connected to Mobile VO s AES pore toad some reve tothe headphone mix we make in MIO Console Sernne ur roves he fist thing we need todo i configure aur mixers and routing Fortis setup we wil use two mixers in MIO Console one fr the actual headphone mix and one forthe snd mic tothe reverb To da this we need to bng up the Ma Ouspt Routing view in MIO console Int default state the WIDE mixers configured with nly the Analog Inputs signed tothe mix buses so we need o add the Digital input Tod this we simply click inthe assign ies under he Dial input forthe mix buses we want For this example we will use mix busses and 2 forthe Monitor nbs and mix busses 3 and 4 for the effects send mix 5s 1 0 UIN 2 User s Gui Fare 4 Naming the mis oes
88. the mixer 50 thee sno zipper noise when you make coatinuous ar even dis onninaus gan changes lt Command gt clicking the fader knob wil allow you to make fine adjust ments to the fader level by dragging the mouse Up and down lt Opsion gt licking the fader knob wil rset the fader to unity Bun Clicking the meter sociated withthe fader wil clear the pel hold for that channel For mono channel the curent gain is applied to the channel before the pan For stereo channel the curent gain applied uniformly to both ofthe fard panned input channel a 4 Guide ile 1 0 UI ues Marans Each channel fader has a meter or apa of meters for treo channels aso lated with The meters are calibrated consisted with the fader cla tion Each meter is peak reading ft PPM meter that pre fader The peak ald bar shows the biggest peak since the last reset Clicking on a meter wil clear the peak hold for that channel ones Paes Each mano Input in a treo mixer as a pan knob above the fader The pan nal allows you t contr the relative amount ofthe input channel that i placed into the two busses of the sto mixer Fanning hard let L100 means thatthe channel will appear tl volume in the let add bus ofthe mixer Panning hard right R100 means tha the channel wll appear at fll volume in the right even bus of the mixer When the channel is center panned the signal appears at a decreased volume 38 in bath chants uch t
89. the pane above the Parameter Popup contol forthe Patchy router Each time you create a configuration that you ae likely to use again save inthe Parameter Library for instant recall when you need next PARAMETER POPUP CONTROLS The Parameter Popup cao MIO Consol unified mechanism fr han dling presets for the various sections ofthe Mobile UO Each element ofthe console that suppor the Parameter Library mechanism has a parameter Popup control sssclated with These element curently include apt Cha 2882 oo Outpt Canes 282 on Our Patter Mo ile 1 0 UI Guide Each instanceof the Parameter Popup conta provides the same commands and option for every section of the conse Porte Coweuvos The parameter popup provide a hierarchical categorized lary of conti ation presets forthe arociated section ofthe console The ment divided into thee potions The fst porion consis of all of the tems above the Factory Default tem The second potion i the Factory Default tem and the third poron isthe hierarchical items blow the Factory Default item Goo Figure 35 on page 47 he commands inthe fst portion ofthe menu allow you to save and man age the prests inthe libary Al ofthe presets ar shared between ike ele ment inthe console The preset commands are Si senso te rnd old poet tl ppt Se Frmetat An iio no core slced pee in a tend aed atts th ate ol he soited conal stingr ses Fett nts Be lbey
90. the computer with ULN 2 bus power will not be lll The 6 pin FireWire connector i polarized by is shape ane end of the con nectr is pointed Te FireWire ports on ULN 2 point downwards toward the bbotom ofthe box It will be very dificult w insert the connector upside down but itis possible if you farce it the pls inserted ito the socket upside down the socket will be destoyed NEVER FORCE A FIREWIRE CONNECTOR INTO A FIREWIRE SOCKET Devices connected tthe FireWire bus ate autaconfiutng You donot need to st IDs of DIP switches or in any way configure the devices inorder faclfate communication between devices orto cnfigure ofthe bus FireWire devices onthe same bus must be connected in a ree structure with loop Tis means that devices can be connected to each other in any order and any device with muliple ports can act aba chain ofa hub for other FireWire devices but you should never beable to get rm one device to ancther by more than one path you canaruct a lop i the us wil ot operate propery and you wil not be able access some oral of the devices onthe be Although you are able to attach devices in any order on the FireWire bus the order of attachment will have an impact on performance Most current model FireWire devices support 400 Mbs operation but many older devices may only support 100 or 200 Mbs operation These devices ac as bt neck inthe Bur and limit the speed of any bus trafic that flows thr
91. tions for stem and scene recall and oe ing analog level standards for interfacing with external gear and managing diferent mastering standard Cabal configuration snapshots allow you to save each and every aspect of UULN 2 contiguation for later total instant recall This is useful fr precon figuring ULN 2 and bringing back the configuration once atthe gi manag ing separate locaton setups o fo saving complex studio routing setups for ule changeover MIO Console Overview he MIO Concole aplication consolidates ll of the contole forthe Mobile VO hardware ito one easy to use window The ULN 2 has an extremely large numberof user configurable parameters and ti very impor Mobile 1 0 ULN 2 User s Guide tant that you have instant access tothe anes that yu need The console pro ides a thinly layered intxface tothe entire system and keeps you from hhving to deal with Window Overload The MIO Console window has a view panel selector ar that un along the top ofthe window Tis bar indicates which of the console view panei curently active You can tl which panel is active because the buon in the bars pushed in To switch to one of the ther panels simply cick on the ame a the panel you want to use The view wil change instal tothe one that you have selected Under the view panel selector bar isthe curecly selected view panel You contol the various aspects ofthe box wih the contls in each view The MIO Console hae three main p
92. to the nex lower snapshot in thelist eg Ifyou are cumenly on snapshot 3 you will move to snapshot you are at tater beginning ofthe lst and you press the up ara you will wrap around to the last tm in thelist When you select anew snapshot the new snap shot applied to the box immediatly s1 Mobile 1 0 ser s Guide In order to configure the boot state and snapshots for your ULN 2 you will ed t utilize the MIO Console application Caniguring and tring snap has in the bos every simple 1 Fist atach the ULN 2 to the computer and start up MIO Console 2 Use MIO Console to configure the box Setup all aspects that you ae about Once you have the configuration se you ike you are ready to save the snapshot 2 Choose the appropriate save command from the Unties Menu To ame the srpcot to the Boot Sate sot hone the Soe Boot Tose rept to one of ti ther opt ot cen oe ogee baer em he are 4 Save a copy ofthe cutent Console tate oa file on your hard ds with an appropiate name ke ULN 2 Snapshot 1 forthe It hapahos tat you have copy of the state onthe computer if you want to modiy in the ture 2 Mo ile 1 0 UI Guide Routing Applications Clockiog Considerations There ae five ways that you can clock Mobile VO 1 toteral 2 Digital AEVSPOIF 3 Wordloce 4 256 Each choice is appropriate fora paricular situation In general you should te Internal clock y
93. tween CoreAndio outputs and DAW FieWire channels when you want to agus the diect outings inthe Ousput Patchy Router ouves Ents CoreAudio supports enabling and dicabling audio streams Thi ia relatively new feature of CoreAudio and many hosts do nt yt support it Is not clear exactly how the user would contol this funcuonalty at this time Please look atthe section on Channel Enables inthe chapter on ASIO to see tw representative hots deal with thie in OS under ASIO is kely that boss wil support a similar mechanism under OS X once they have imple mented support for stream enables The MIO diver i aware of team ea bles and will ake notice of dsabled channels by skipping procesing for those channel once hosts take adkantage of this CoreAudio featur For application that provide manual contol over enabled channels you will Mo ude ile 1 0 UI the best performance if you only enable the channels you need For pplication that automatically maintain the enabled channels you wil get the best performance if you only assign channels to outputs you really want 1 use and only record enable channels that you intend to record on Comeau Bureens Audio channels are ransported individually to the host in buffer sized hunks The size ofthe audio butlers has an effect on the CPU Toad of the Sudo application as well ac the round np latency from input to ouput shen the aud is outed through the hos pplication for montoingorpro
94. ual ls itis easy to share presets with ther Mobile VO users By sending you preset files to another user they can install your presets into ther library by simply dropping the fle ino the pproprnte folders inthe Finder You can rename eategories by renaming he folders within the Finder 1o nat change the names of the Parameter Library folder or the top level folders within the Parameter Library flder these are used by the MIO Console liar system to find the presets forthe diferent sctons of the console The presets will not be found i those folder names have been hanged ths includes the Input Matin Miner Osput Router ac You cannot rename presets from the Finder the parameter brary will use the name stored in the rest le and ignore the le name in the Finder Any ofber changes you make in the Finder will not be recognized by the MIO Console while ts running you will have to quit the Console and telaunch forthe changes tobe recognized Note In OS X the Parameter Libary folder is contained within the MIO Console Application bundle Ths is likely to change inthe future th the Parameter Ubray Folder moving a the ler preferences folder contained in the firary Prefetence folder PERSISTENT STATE MANAGEMENT he ULN 2 hardware hae suppor fr Persistent State Snapshots There are 10 mapehotsote Inthe ULN 2 that ae rcalable fom the controls on the UULN2 front panel Each Persistent State Sn
95. urs hasan eft on the CPU ood of the audio application 235 well asthe roundirip latency from input to output when the audio I outed through the hoe application for monitoring of processing Generally the CPU load increases asthe utr size decreases this is not rue forall has emagics Loge Audio isa notable exception On the other hand the latency decease asthe butler size creases Since in general you want the lowest CPU load andthe lowes lateny you will ave to make tadeof The WIDE miter engine in Mobile VO helps substantially with this isue because forthe common cntical mantring configuration monitoring while Mo ile 1 0 UI 2 Us ide tracking extemal sources the Mobile UO mixer removes all of the ASIO latency rom the monitor path and allows you to decouple the tency from the ber size Inthe case that you are tying t perform with 2 sofeynth running in your thst Mobile VO miner does not help decrease the latency since the signal i being generated onthe computer In this ease you ll want to minimize the output atency by selecting the smallest ASIO butfr size porte This wl depend on your computer hardware the amount of processing you ae ding and the ASIO hoe you use ernie rue ASIO Borex Sct The methods used to set the ASIO butfer size wil vary from hoe to hat Some ASIO hosts provide direct controls fr adjusting the buffer size and tthe do not if Your host supports seating the butler size direct
96. ve hat mat np ck 2 The Sample Rate popup ment allows you to sect the sample ate whe you are using intemal clack The ULN2 must be unnig on Intemal clock forthe Sample Rate popup menu to have any eft M the ULNC2 t running from an extemal clock source you cannct select the sample rate since i determined by the extemal clock Figure Sample te opp Mena 4 The WC Out popup menu allows you to select the ouput clack signal the ULN E generates on te WC Out BNC connector The lable choices ae 1x and 256x The 1x signal s appropriate for Py ile 1 0 UI Guide dhiving devices that accept a Word Clock signa The 256 signal propriate for diving devices that accept 286x or Superlock sig nl Refer to the documentation for the extemal device to deter mine what the most appropriate lock reference fr ft Fig 22 WC Ost Popp The DI Source popup menu allows you to select the active input for the digital input pal The choices are AES and PDIF Tie Selector physically swtches the input tothe digital audio receiver between the RCA Input and the XLR ip Fr 2 Soe Popp The DI SHC btn enable nd dealer he axcrooussmple a comer SRO inthe ULN 2 digital ud eeewer Where Stet engaged anon Mmiate yell the Giga so secher wll mately syncrniethe lop galt the UNS mem lack ver lenge of age it ato Slows yao fr empl italy Sadr a ample a CD flyer 226 se tion ny lacg pbs yo Sano make btanaparent rane you wil ned fo dengige She SRC and ese at
97. werbook compte you sould nt expect 0 bbe ableto power both the ULNC 2 and a hard dre from the computer The power capabilities of individual computers vary so you wll hae to test the Complete system to determine exactly how much your computer can ha de i you find thatthe computer is nt capable of powering ULN 2 oF doesnot provide enough runtime you may want to explore using an extemal power Eburce with the ULN 2 Check with Matic Halo fr details on diferent bat tery power solutions for ULN 2 As with ll electronic devices when connecting an extemal power source to the ULN 2 you should fist connect the power Source to ULN 2 while its in an unenerjzed state eg not connected tothe mains or switched of After the connection to ULN 2 has been made you should energie the power fF you connect an energized power source to the ULN 2 2 1mm power connector you may se 2 smal spark when you make the connection This due to surge current and is normal Hf you connect a power source in this ay While this wil ot damage the ULNC2 in any way to avo the spark Just connect the power connector to ULN 2 before connecting the power source othe wall Fire 12 00 Coma MIO Console i the nerve center of your ULN 2 Functioning asa sandsl ne application in bath MAC OS 9 and MAC OS X MIO Cancale provides full contol of every aspect of ULN 2 The console sofware allows you api and easly adjust the system Sample ate Digital UO sour and
98. x If you want to use this example as a racking setup choose Save As from the file menu This brings up a standard Macintoeh save dialog and allows you to save the entre sate of MIO Console a a setup document The precading examples should give you a sence ofthe possiblities that are enabled bythe routing and mixing features of Mobile UO While thie jue Starting point we have covered all ofthe basic operations required manipulate Mobile VO with complex routing You shouldbe able to bull pon these scenarios to construct routings that suit your needs and your wor 0 ile 1 0 UI Guide Configuring ASIO Hosts Mac OS 9 Asour ASIO TecHNoLocy AS1O uo Sveam InpuvOutput is Steinberg Soft und Hardware GmbH s technology andard for interfacing professional audio applications t pro fessional audio interface hardware Stenberg defined the standard and used itfor al oftheir audio applications and tok the futher sp of making the specification ofthe standard avallable for use by eter hardware and sof ware vendors In doing So they established it as the de facto standard for making high resolution multichannel low latency connections between audio hardware and audio applications on Mac OS 9 and Microsoft Win dows Virually every pro audio computer application provides suppor for com municsting with audio hardware via ASIO As such was the natural tan rd for Metic Halo to support for interfacing with Mobile
99. you can se Tunes withthe Mobile VO you are not earl you can check your mail and have the Mail recived Sound printed ino the bounce that ya ar ding nthe background Comeau Teasony ano Sanu Rares CoreAudio support a wide variety of audio transport standards As a pact cal mater CoreAudo supports multichannel transport of 24 bt audio via ating point reams at virtually any sample ate Many hosts only support 8 6 ile 1 0 UI 2 Guide small number of sample ates and may not support all ofthe sample ates that are avalable withthe Mable VO hardware vee Nanes CoreAudio provides a mechanism forthe driver to tell the host the names of the channels Some hosts do not use this information and makeup their on names forthe channel Thi mechanism ie not dynamic zo the Mobile VO driver cannot update the ost names ae you adjust the up Patchy outer Asa result the input channel names are always accurate but the mapping between the CoreAudho output names and the hardware outputs an be adjusted on the fly and the hst may not match the actual hardvare resting The Output Channel names reported to the host re the direct mapped hard ware outputs With UIN2 there ate 6 CoreAudio output channels are mapped othe hardware in the following order 1 DAW Analog 2 DAW2 Analog 3 DAW3 gt Monitor 4 DAWA Montor2 5 DAWS Digtalt amp DAW6 Digital Yu can se the table ave asa guide othe mapping be
100. ys tem clock source tals allows you to assign ASIO CareAuho ouput chan els and hardware input channels to the integrated 0 b ull intepoated mul bus near zerolatency hardware mies MIO Console s powerful mixer supports both mono and stereo buses with so and mite functions fr all input and master channels The mixer bus output are routable to any ofthe hardware ouput allowing yu to eaily reste multiple simuitancous mics for send etum bases and multiple Ive main and monitor mixes Various application include foldback suppor for multiple perormers separate monitor feeds for studio tape and contol oom and separate mies for frot of house archive recording and moni tor fo ve shows a Guide ile 1 0 UI MIO Console also contain a patchbay router which allows you to quickly select the source being fd to any up The ptchbay provides eacy com figuration of stand alone operation mix mult direct outs and various com biations thereof osu the needs ofthe moment iar 1 10 Comoe Outpt Pain In order to simply work low and optimize the extent of system conto MIO Cansole supports comprehensive preset management on both 3 global and individual conto lve The preset management popup contos within MIO Console allow you to configure various aspects of ULN 2 and save that configuration infomation for later recall Various applications include storing routing configurations fog monitor setups mixer configura

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