

I need it for compatibility with Adobe CS6. I used to run everything through a Mackie mixer to get it all to to work properly, but the MOTU is supposed to handle all of this itself, and when my Mackie took a dump after 20 years, I thought I could just route everything through the MOTU. On the PC, I understand, clicking that little Direct Monitoring box in Cubase lets Cubase control CueMix, and therefore the MOTU interface. I hate having to either use another program (CueMix) outside of Cubase when I am recording, or settle for turning the headphone volume way up in order to hear live mic input. And then everything else is ear-splitting.)

(I normally run the MOTU at -35dB headphone level for all purposes except recording, and then I have to turn the phones up to -10dB to hear myself at all. Why? On Mac, the little check box is greyed out.įurther, why is there such a voltage drop between normal playback (of tracks, or any other signal coming from the computer) and the direct input? The input levels are fine, and record fine, but the monitoring level is WAY low. After years of not having this work properly and having to work around it, I simply want to know why Direct monitoring doesn't work on MAC with Cubase? Evidently it does on PC.
