Headphone out in SX

[bswylie]

Hi

I've been searching around a bit and still have a question regarding an output bus to the headphone amp.

I'm running a MOTU 828mkII, and SX 3. The monitors go on main outs, and headphone amp on outputs 1 and 2 on the 828. I want to send the exact mix from the main outs to the headphones outputs inside Cubase, and since the main monitor bus in Cubase has no sends, I was sending each track individually to the headphone bus (this can be a huge pain). There surely has to be an easier way than this - I simply want to route the main mix to the headphones - if you could help me out this would be much appreciated!

Thanks
Brian

 

[xtjdx]

The way I do it is just change the outputs of your main out in your VST connections screen to your headphone outputs. I'm also curious about an easier way to switch.

 

[xstatic]

Can you set the Motu up to mimic the same stereo inoput on two seperate stereo outputs? If so, that is how I would do it. Basically set the main outputs and analog out 1&2 to receive their signal from analog inputs 1&2 (or whatever inputs you are using).

 

[Rado]

you should use direct Asio monitoring.
DO not use the SX outputs because the latency is huge for some performers.
I own a RME fireface and it works perfect.
I dunno Motu.

 

[bswylie]

Great, will try. Unless I'm missing something, I don't think the 828mkII has the ability to mimic any outputs unfortunately, I definitely would prefer to have done it like that in hardware. It's got a whole lot of really neat features, just not this it seems! Will check out in the hardware section - maybe someone there has had some experience with this

Thanks again
B.

 

[xstatic]

i would be very surprised if the Motu control panel did not allow you to send 2 inouts to 4 outputs. Even my old 2408 mk2 did that.

 

[bswylie]

Figured it out!

i would be very surprised if the Motu control panel did not allow you to send 2 inouts to 4 outputs. Even my old 2408 mk2 did that.

Apologies - I perhaps did not make myself clear enough. The MOTU can do very fancy things with all the inputs - it's got 4 mix busses for the multitude of inputs, so that was never a problem. What I wanted was to send the main monitor mix mirrored to analogs 1 and 2 out - the headphone amp out.

And now I fgured out how to do it in Cubase with no latency. Hopefully someone else finds this useful.

1) Create Bus for main outs on hardware IF
2) Create Bus for headphone amp outs on hardware IF
3) Create a group track for called "Main Monitors"
4) Route all audio, instruments etc to this group track
5) Make output of "Main Monitors" the main outs bus of audio hardware
6) Use a send of "Main Monitors" group channel to route to headphone amp out

And voila! Knew there had to be an easy way to do this - in my opinion the group track etc stuff isn't very well documented in the pdf documentation or html help with SX 3 - had to figure out this stuff without its help.

Thanks for everything
B.