Please help me!!

brohank · Post by **brohank** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:45 am

I'm a MOTU neophyte, and cannot find the (what must be) obvious solution.

I'm running a G3, OS 9, and a MOTU 2408. No MIDI device, no outboard clock, adat or otherwise...just straight to the HD. Seems that no matter what settings I try, I cannot get the audiodesk mixing board to give me more than four tracks. I have the profile set to mono, analog bank 1.

What am I missing? Does the system preclude 8 tracks? Or is a second bank required?

thanks for any and all help

Hank

jarok · Post by **jarok** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:42 am

Hi

Audiodesk has somewhere setting for amount of Audio Tracks and busses.
It could be in the studio settings.
It is so long time ago that I used it so I don´t remember more.
Audiodesk is not 8 track player.

jarok

azusa749a · Post by **azusa749a** » Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:09 pm

To set the studio size:
Basic -> MOTU Audio System option -> Configure Studio Size.

How big you can set is up to you Mac, but be reasonable.

brohank · Post by **brohank** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:43 am

azusa749a wrote:To set the studio size:
Basic -> MOTU Audio System option -> Configure Studio Size.

How big you can set is up to you Mac, but be reasonable.

OK...I set the Configure Studio to 8 mono and it made no diff in the mixing board...still shows only 4 inputs. I tried several other settings, and again it made no diff.

Any other suggestions? Is the 2408 just not capable of doing 8 mono tracks on OS 9?

jarok · Post by **jarok** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:09 am

Have you tried to create more Audio Tracks?

jarok

Pappy725 · Post by **Pappy725** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:36 am

As Jarok said, Have you created more Audio tracks? I believe it's under the Project menu>Add Track>mono audio track. (Shift,Command,A?)

Stephen

brohank · Post by **brohank** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:54 am

Appreciate the replies, guys...however.

I cannot find any "project" button on the Audiodesk menu...anywhere. No keystroke combo returns anything, either, except the std. cut, paste, copy, etc.

I also can't find anything in the PCI324 config other than the mono button, which is on, and does show 8 tracks...it just doesn't show up in the Audiodesk.

Of course, MOTU has sent me several "tech" responses, all wanting me to buy the Audiodesk manual. Hardly likely since I can't even get a reply (intelligible) from them about whether or not the 2408 will even do it to begin with.

Guess I'll just find some other software/hardware...or keep ponging tracks.

Pappy725 · Post by **Pappy725** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 5:14 am

It's not a "button", it's a menu at the top of your monitor screen. When I opened my copy of AudioDesk, it was there and had the Add Track submenu which had the add mono audio command in it. It will also let you add a master fader from this menu.

Stephen

brohank · Post by **brohank** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:38 pm

Sorry about using the word button, Pappy. BTW, you must be just a ways down the road from me...I'm in Thrall.

Across the menu in Audiodesk, there's:

File Edit Basics Windows Audio Help

None of these has an "Add Track" submenu. The closest it comes is under Basics
MOTU System Options
Configure Hardware Driver (same as the PCI324 module)
Configure Studio Size (set for 8 mono voices)
Input Monitor Mode
Fine Tune Audio I/O
Performance Monitor

Again....no add tracks, etc.

Thanks for trying.

Pappy725 · Post by **Pappy725** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 6:07 am

No problem, it's difficult sometimes to see eye to eye with the terminology differences.
Yeah, I'm west of Austin in Fredericksburg. Just another small town guy.

Now, what version of AudioDesk are you running? I've got 2.04 and the menu bar has: File, Edit, Audio, Project, Studio, Setup, Windows, Help.
That's just strange.

Pappy

brohank · Post by **brohank** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:44 am

OK...now we're getting somewhere. I've got 1.02, which is what MOTU sent me. Probably because I'm on OS9 instead of OSX. I suppose that means that I'll either have to switch over to my G4 with OSX 10.3.9 and get a new disk from MOTU, or just keep ponging tracks.

Love Fredricksburg....great little town (except when the turistas pack it up!). Course if you're in a business that likes turistas....then they're greeeaaaaat!

Thanks
Hank