Logic and Motu help.

Question

Hi guys, new to the forum. I have a pretty specific question that I've asked on a lot of other boards and everyone is pointing me to here, so I'll give it a try. First let me give you the background information. my set up includes an M-Audio octane running into a MOTU 828 mkII via adat litepipe connection. The MOTU runs into my friends G5 via firewire. When opening the cue-mix mixing console software that comes with the motu, I can see and here the 8 adat tracks as well as the 10 audio inputs, but when trying to assign where to record from in logic, I can only see the 10 audio inputs. I ran the set-up assistant a few times, but couldn't understand how to get logic to read the adat. I have logic express 7, and i'm wondering if I need pro to do this. Feel free to bash me if I'm saying something that has been asked before, the search function wasn't working on this computer. Thanks for you help!
Ben

Answer 1

This may be straying a bit oblique to the immediate topic, but the way I have my MOTU Ultralite set up, I'm running all eight of my preamps and comps into its analog ins, and selecting Main 1 and 2 in, via the firewire signal chain, into the iMac and Logic Express, and Main 1 and 2 out,(to the Logic monitor buss, which then passes throught the MOTU outs to my active monitors) in the MOTU setup window.
In Logic, when I go to grab any track, and I want to use my Beyer M160, which is plugged into the Ultralite's analog in number 5, and sent down the line through the firewire on Main 1 and 2 ins, according to the MOTU setup, no matter which audio track I've grabbed in Logic, if I tell that Logic Audio Track to take number 5 in, my Beyer M160 will be coming in through Logic Audio Track input 5. No matter which Logic Audio Track is being used for this connect. It's always that way. Same with all my other mikes into their respective preamps, comps, and into the MOTU in's. I bypass the preamps in the MOTU completely because I've a Langevin DVC in MOTU's 1 and 2(which are the only two preamped inputs on the Ultralite), cuz I don't need any of the MOTU preamp, just line signal, and they'll go in to Logic's track inputs 1 and 2 when I assign those inputs to any Logic Audio Track.
Just use the input assign on the Logic Audio Track window. So if I need to use more of the DVC I just select input 1 or 2 on a Logic Audio Track when I go to record. Again, that's no matter which Logic Audio Track is being used. By the way, anyone with an Ultralite, you have to use an XLR connect on inputs 1 and 2 on the MOTU if you want balanced +4 ins. If you use a TRS into the Neutrik, it'll be balanced, but -10. This way, I never have to repatch a mike. I just select the input that mike is hooked to via the MOTU to Logic via the firewire. Setting up the 'sequential option' in Logic's setup may facilitate this,,but I can make any input chain go to any Logic input by selecting the input in the Logic's Audio Track Window selection box. Hope this helps.