User manual MACKIE ONYX FIREWIRE

[. . . ] FIREWIRE OPTION CARD for ONYX MIXERS OWNER'S MANUAL ONYX FireWire Card Important Safety Instructions 1. Servicing is required when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as powersupply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been exposed to rain or moisture, does not operate normally, or has been dropped. This apparatus does not exceed the Class A/Class B (whichever is applicable) limits for radio noise emissions from digital apparatus as set out in the radio interference regulations of the Canadian Department of Communications. ATTENTION -- Le présent appareil numérique n'émet pas de bruits radioélectriques dépassant las limites applicables aux appareils numériques de class A/de class B (selon le cas) prescrites dans le réglement sur le brouillage radioélectrique édicté par les ministere des communications du Canada. WARNING -- To reduce the risk of fire or electric shock, do not expose this apparatus to rain or moisture. 2 ONYX FireWire Card Table of Contents Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 System Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 A Note about Hard Drive Speed: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Owner's Manual Installing the Onyx FireWire Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Getting Started. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 For the PC: Installing the Drivers and Control Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Also make sure the hard drive you want to record onto has plenty of free space for the entire session (and has been defragmented recently). Recording one minute of audio on one track at 44. 1 kHz/24-bit takes about 8 MB of hard drive space. Recording all 16 tracks for one hour takes about 7. 6 GB of hard drive space. Recording 1. For more details about the Tracktion software, press F12 on your keyboard, or click the HELP button in the lower left corner of the Tracktion screen. Navigate to the location where you want to save your new project, enter a name in the pop-up dialog box, then click Save. All of this project's tracks, clips, and edits are saved here by Tracktion, and new audio is recorded in the folder. An Edit is Tracktion's way of keeping everything related to your songs together. You can rename the edit in the Properties panel at the bottom of the screen. 4. 28 ONYX FireWire Card 5. Click on the "settings" tab at the top of the Tracktion screen, click the "audio devices" tab, and select Onyx ASIO Driver as the Wave device. Owner's Manual 6. Select the Main L output and make sure "treat as stereo pair" is selected in the properties panel at the bottom of the screen. This links the left and right outputs as a stereo pair so the individual tracks can be routed and panned between the left and right outputs during overdubbing and mixdown. Sample Rate Latency 7. Open the Onyx FireWire Control Panel (Start > Programs > Mackie Onyx > Onyx Control Panel) and set the sample rate and latency you want to use. If your recording is going to be burned to a CD, you might want to select 44. 1 kHz. You want to choose the lowest latency setting that your computer will handle, since you want to minimize the delay when the musicians are monitoring their overdubs. The lower the latency setting, the more resources are demanded of your computer and the less is available for handling the actual recording process. You may need to experiment with the latency setting to Owner's Manual 29 ONYX FireWire Card find the right balance between performance and monitoring delay. If you hear pops, clicks, or distortion in the audio, increase the latency setting. You can use the CPU bar in the lower right corner of Tracktion to monitor how much CPU horsepower is available. If the CPU bar changes from green to red, you are running out of resources and should increase the latency setting. 8. Make sure the correct sample rate and latency settings appear in the settings tab. If not, click "restart device" to update the settings (on the PC), or make the changes directly in Tracktion (on the Mac). Click on the "projects" tab, and double-click on "new edit #1" (or whatever you have named your new edit) to open the edit screen. You can add new tracks as you go along by clicking the "tracks" button in the lower left corner and selecting "create a new track, " and you can rename them by selecting the track name and typing the new name in the Properties panel (the default names are Track 1, Track 2, etc. ). 9. 10. 30 ONYX FireWire Card 11. Configure all the inputs and outputs as mono tracks by clicking on each input arrow and deselecting the "treat as stereo pair" button in the Properties panel. Move the input arrows toward the tracks you want to assign them to (e. g. , In 1 to Track 1). When the arrow pops out and points to the track, it is assigned, armed, and ready to record. Owner's Manual 12. Rename the first 16 tracks with the names of the connected instruments (e. g. , kick, snare, keyboard, guitar, etc. ). [. . . ] If the Authorized Mackie Service Center is located in another city, pack the mixer in its original shipping carton. More information on packing can be found in the Service section of this manual. Contact the Authorized Mackie Service Center to arrange service or bring the Mackie product to them. LOUD Technologies and Authorized Mackie Service Centers reserve the right to inspect any products that may be the subject of any warranty claims before repair or replacement is carried out. [. . . ]