Audition and MOTU 828 mki

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anybody know how to assign outs and monitors in audition? Im trying to run my motu into audition and canty get any sound output out of the firewire, motiors, or head phones, and motu tech support told me i had to assign outs, but he didnt know auditon sohe couldnt tell me how but I thought id done that already under settings...anybody else had this problem that can help me?
 
This is a frustrating feature of Adobe Audition: as far as I know, the manual never tells you step-by-step how to map the signal path. If I am wrong, someone tell me so I can pass the info along.

Go to Options/Device Properties/Wave Out and make sure your MOTU is recognized.

Also, check the channel I/O, shown in a small box to the left of the track in Multitrack View. it has buttons along the top edge for Record/Mute/Solo and In and Out fields. Right click on the In or Out to assign I/O to each track. The mixer I use has 8 I/O, so I can assign each of 8 tracks to its own output by right-clicking on the little window and ticking the option I want.

If you have enough channels on the MOTU for simultaneous playback (I assume you are using the MOTU PCI interface, not a stereo sound card, right?) you can assign 8 playback tracks (for example) as 1L, 1R, 2L, 2R, 3L, 3R, 4L and 4R. I use a 16-channel mixer in my setup, where channels 1-8 are input ("record" to the computer) and mixer channels 9-16 are output ("playback" to the computer): track 1 goes into channel 9 (panned hard left), 2 > 10 (panned hard right), 3 > 11 (left), 4 > 12 (right), 5 > 13 (left), 6 > 14 (right), 7 > 15 (left) and 8 > 16 (right). This puts each track on its own fader. How to route that signal once it gets back out of the computer depends on your hardware. My setup allows 3 separate paths (monitor speakers, headphone amp, or room playback).
 
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thanks alot man, that helped...I finally got the motu to play sound from the headphone and monitor outs, but its still not being recorded in audition :( I dunno...any more suggestions? I set the wave in to motu analog, and wave outs to my card...am i an idiot and the sound doesnt even come through the firewire cable, just data? lol im gonna feel so stupid
 
You set the inputs the same way you set the outputs for playback: in the little windows at the left end of the Multi-Track View screen. Having suffered through exactly the same thing a few years ago, I know how you feel. You have to be methodical and check ALL the places where routing is managed. As I said earlier, there's no checklist (there needs to be one) but...

1. Make sure the device is recognized by Windows (right click on the little speaker icon in the task bar)...but if it'll play back, that's not the problem. However, check to see that the volume levels for input devices are not set to 0 or muted.

2. Make sure your MOTU shows up in the right-hand window of the Wave In box. You can select or deselect and sometimes the default is no sound.

3. If the "Try as WDM" box is ticked, untick it, and vice versa. That was once a problem with my setup.

4. If you have a control panel as part of the MOTU software, and if it has meters, you can feed a signal in with the control panel activated to make sure that everything is connected properly (although with the PCI card it would have to be, one would think). If the meters jump, there's a signal. If no action, there's something else the matter...such as muted inputs?

5. Patience, and think about where the signal is going! The MOTU is built to do this, you know. Good luck with it.
 
ive tried all that, everything seems to be connected properly...the mki doesnt have a pci card thoough, it connects through a firewire to the firewire port
 
it connects through a firewire to the firewire port

That should eliminate any problems with that. I have had no problems with USB input of audio, and Firewire is very similar, at least to the software. I'm out of ideas: maybe someone else has thought of something I haven't.

I am convinced, from my experience with AA, that the problem is going to be found in your settings. I know that's not a big help, but you can probably disregard the possibility of hardware incompatibility or glitches in the software.

There is a large forum community at Adobe's website where questions can be raised about Cool Edit Pro or Adobe Audition.
http://www.adobe.com/support/main.html Click on the "forums" and it'll ask you to register. There is also another website http://www.audiomastersforum.org/amforum/index.php devoted to CEP/AA, and the old Syntrillium forums are archived there.
 
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