Mackie Firewire OPtion Card fot Onyx Mixer manual

OWNER’S MANUAL FIREWIRE OPTION CARD for ONYX MIXERS[...]

2 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWir e Car d 3 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 1. Read these instructions. 2. Keep these instructions. 3. Heed all warnings. 4. Follow all instructions. 5. Do not use this apparatus near water . 6. Install in accordance with the manufacturer’ s instructions. 7. Refer all servicing to qualied service personnel[...]

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4 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 5 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Introduction Thank you for choosing to upgrade your Onyx mixing console with the Onyx FireW ire card. The Fir eWir e interface allows you to stream up to 16 channels of digital audio to your PC or Macintosh computer , where it shows up as 16 audio input choices in your[...]

4 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 5 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual System Requirements These are the minimum r equirements for your computer system to use the Onyx FireW ire interface. For the PC: • Windows XP (no earlier operating systems ar e supported) • Pentium 4 or Athlon XP processor • 256 MB RAM For the Mac: • OS X* •[...]

6 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 7 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Installing the Onyx FireWire Card Important: Although the Onyx FireW ire Card has a protective cover on both sides of the card, it does contain static-sensitive compo- nents. Anti-static precautions ar e highly rec- ommended before opening the anti-static bag and handl[...]

6 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 7 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Set the blank plate aside. Y ou won’t need it again, unless you want to remove the Onyx FireW ire card sometime in the futur e. Then you’ll want to reinstall the blank plate. 4. Remove the FireW ire card from the anti-static bag. CAREFULL Y line up the connector on[...]

8 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 9 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Getting Started For the PC: When connecting the Onyx FireW ire card to a PC, it is necessary to rst install the drivers and the control panel. The control panel allows you to set the sample rate and adjust the latency (delay) of the audio passing through the FireW i[...]

8 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 9 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 4. The next window displays the Software License Agr eement. Click "Y es" to ac- cept the terms of the agreement. 5. Next is the Destination Location window . W e recommend that you install the drivers in the default location, but you can click the Browse but[...]

10 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 11 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 6. The next window explains that the device drivers are r eady to be installed. Click "Next." 7. This next window may open to warn that the software being installed has not passed Windows Logo testing. Click "Continue Anyway ."[...]

10 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 11 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 8. The next window tells you to connect the FireW ire card to your computer . NOTE: DO NOT CLICK EITHER BUTTON in this window yet! 9. T urn on the Onyx mixer with the FireWir e card installed, and the FireW ire cable (included) connected to the FireW ire card and you[...]

12 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 13 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 11. When the wizard indicates that the installation is nished, click “Finish.” 12. The “Found New Hardware W izard” opens again to install the Onyx FireW ire Sub C driver . Select “Install the software automatically” option, and click “Next.”[...]

12 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 13 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 13. When the wizard indicates the installation is nished, click “Finish.” Now , if you have a second Onyx mixer with a FireW ire card installed, it is time to connect it to your computer and turn it on. If your computer only has one FireW ire connection, you c[...]

14 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 15 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 16. The “Found New Hardware W izard” opens once again for the Onyx FireW ire WDM Audio installation. Select “Install the software automatically” option, and click “Next.” 17. This next window may open to warn that the software being installed has not pass[...]

14 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 15 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 18. When the wizard indicates the installation is nished, click “Finish.” Y our new software is now installed and r eady to use with any Windows XP ASIO or WDM host application (i.e., T racktion, Cubase, Sonar , Nuendo, Live, etc.). 19. T o open the Onyx FireW[...]

16 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 17 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual If using two Onyx mixers with FireWire cards: It is necessary to turn on one mixer rst, followed by the second mixer . They appear sequentially as 36 inputs x 4 outputs. If you have one Onyx mixer that will spend most of its time in the studio, always turn that on[...]

16 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 17 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 3. Click the Audio Devices tab, and select Onyx FireW ire in the “Properties For” drop-down box. 4. Here you can change the sample rate used by your OS and applications. 5. Y ou can also choose to use the Onyx mixer as your default input or output, as well as des[...]

18 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 19 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Channel Assignments The following chart shows the order of the channels for each of the three Onyx mixers as they appear in a DA W application.                               [...]

18 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 19 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Onyx 1640 Liv e Mix and Multitrack Recor ding to a Laptop via FireWire This hookup diagram demonstrates how you can do a live multitrack re- cording to a laptop using the FireWire card. The FireWire card provides a digital direct output for each channel, and the L/R [...]

20 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 21 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Onyx 1640 Multitrac k Recording and Mixdo wn Monitoring Sixteen channels are recorded to the laptop, and two mixdown channels are returned to the Onyx mixer for post-take monitoring through the Control Room speakers. The PHONES output is connected to a headphone dist[...]

20 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 21 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Onyx 1640 Multitrac k Recording and Mixdo wn Monitoring with Six Monitor Mixes Sixteen channels are recorded to the laptop, and two mixdown chan- nels are returned to the Onyx mixer for post-take monitoring through the Control Room speakers. The PHONES output provide[...]

22 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 23 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Onyx 1620 Recording Multiple K eyboards and K eyboard Synths directly to a Laptop The FireWire card allows you to record directly from the Onyx mixer to a laptop or DA W without the need for a computer audio interface. The two- track mixdown is returned to the Onyx m[...]

22 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 23 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual T utorials W e’re assuming at this point, that you have done the setup procedur e described on pages 8-17, so that the Onyx FireW ire card is r ecognized by your computer and communicating with your software application. W e also assume you’ve installed T racktio[...]

24 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 25 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 3. Navigate to the location where you want to save your new project, enter a name in the pop-up dialog box, then click Save. All of this project’s tracks, clips, and edits are saved her e by T racktion, and new audio is recorded in the folder . 4. “New edit #1”[...]

24 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 25 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 7. Make sure all of the inputs ar e enabled. If any of them say “disabled,” click it to enable it. 8. Reopen the Onyx Control Panel (click “show ASIO control panel). Just below the sample rate box is the latency setting. Latency describes the amount of time it [...]

26 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 27 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 9. Click on the “projects” tab, and double-click on “new edit #1” (or whatever you have renamed your edit) to open the edit scr een. This new project starts with 8 horizontal tracks, stacked vertically . Y ou can add new tracks as you go along by clicking the[...]

26 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 27 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 13. Click the Record button in the bottom right section of T racktion to start recording (or pr ess the R key on the keyboard). 14. At the end of the show , you have 16 individual tracks from each channel (12 if using an Onyx 1220), and the 2-track L/R mix from the b[...]

28 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 29 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Studio Recording T utorial P r el im i n a ry S te ps Make sure all of the channels and mixer settings ar e set up correctly , and the Onyx FireW ire port is connected to the computer . Also make sure the hard drive you want to record onto has plenty of fr ee space f[...]

28 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 29 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 5. Click on the “settings” tab at the top of the T racktion screen, click the “audio devices” tab, and select Onyx ASIO Driver as the W ave device. 6. Select the Main L output and make sure "tr eat as stereo pair" is selected in the properties panel[...]

30 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 31 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual nd the right balance between performance and monitoring delay . If you hear pops, clicks, or distortion in the audio, increase the latency setting. Y ou can use the CPU bar in the lower right corner of T racktion to monitor how much CPU horsepower is available. If[...]

30 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 31 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 11. Congure all the inputs and outputs as mono tracks by clicking on each input arrow and deselecting the "treat as ster eo pair" button in the Properties panel. This creates 18 separate audio inputs in T racktion. Move the input arrows toward the tracks[...]

3 2 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 33 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 14. Y ou can monitor the recording by assigning all the channels to the L/R mix on the Onyx mixer , and selecting MAIN MIX in the CONTROL ROOM/PHONES SOURCE section. This provides direct monitoring through a pair of monitors connected to the Control Room Outputs. Y [...]

3 2 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 33 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 2. Push the FIREWIRE button in the CONTROL ROOM/ PHONES SOURCE section of your Onyx mixer to hear playback of the recorded tracks. Mute all the channels except channel 1 (the overdub vocal part) on the Onyx mixer . 3. Click the Record button in the bottom right sect[...]

34 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 35 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Appendix A: Ser vice Information W arranty Ser vice Details concerning W arranty Service are spelled out in the W arranty section on page 38. If you think your Onyx FireW ire card has a problem, please do everything you can to conrm it before calling for service. [...]

34 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 35 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Repair Service for Mackie products is available at our galactic headquarters, located in sunny W oodinville, W ashington. Service for Mackie products living outside the United States can be obtained through local dealers or distributors. If your Onyx FireW ire card n[...]

36 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 3 7 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual Appendix B: T echnical Info Onyx FireWire Card Specications Mic In to FireW ire Card to DA W , routed back to FireW ire Card to Control Room Output; all signal path gain stages set to unity Frequenc y Response +0, –3 dB, 10 Hz to 42 kHz @ 96 kHz sample rate +0,[...]

36 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 3 7 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual T op of Onyx FireWire Card O O MAX      ?[...]

38 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 39 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual A. LOUD T echnologies Inc. warrants all materials, workmanship and proper operation of this product for a period of three years from the original date of purchase. If any defects are found in the materials or workmanship or if the product fails to function properly d[...]

38 ONYX FireWir e Card ONYX Fir eWire Car d 39 Owner’ s Manual Owner’ s Manual 4. If the Authorized Mackie Service Center is located in another city , pack the mixer in its original shipping carton. More information on packing can be found in the Service section of this manual. 5. Contact the Authorized Mackie Service Center to arrange service [...]

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