Anyone try headphone for adat mk5

sadgod · Post by **sadgod** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:43 am

Hello, has anyone tried to use the ultralite mk5 as a dac via adat? Does anyone know if the headphone jack shows up in as an output? Like 7-8 etc? Want to get one but I would primarily use it this way if I did.

mikehalloran · Post by **mikehalloran** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:36 am

sadgod wrote: ↑Tue Nov 22, 2022 7:43 am Hello, has anyone tried to use the ultralite mk5 as a dac via adat? Does anyone know if the headphone jack shows up in as an output? Like 7-8 etc? Want to get one but I would primarily use it this way if I did.

Here is the User Guide.
https://cdn-data.motu.com/manuals/usb- ... _Guide.pdf

It can do what you want but not the way you think you want it. ADAT is one of multiple input sources.

Headphone output

The UltraLite-mk5 front panel provides an independent headphone jack with separate volume control. You can program the phones to mirror the main outs or act as its own independent output.

sadgod · Post by **sadgod** » Tue Nov 22, 2022 4:30 pm

Interesting, I looked in the manual but must have been looking in the wrong section. Thanks for the reply I guess that’s probably as informative an answer as I could expect to get without actually having one and trying it.

Calagan · Post by **Calagan** » Wed Feb 07, 2024 8:11 am

I'm answering very late to your question, and I'm not sure if I understood your question, but the headphones output is a separate output indeed : you can use it as a replica of the master, or you can route to it the USB channels 11-12 from your DAW...

If I'm not wrong, SPDIF is 13-14
ADAT is 15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22

It's actually very useful if you need to use more than 10 outputs and don't care about the quality of the 11-12 outputs
(in my case, I use it on stage and the headphones output is used as a click track, so the whole 10 tracks are used for music).

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