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[dylab]

i was having no joy with ableton and external effects , sending out on channel 7 and plugging channel 7 into reverb unit
but I was not getting any audio from reverb unit

Im not sure why maybe because 1,2 are main out but 7 out in ableton send out of 5 out on back of MOTU
anyone explain why

[ehsan]

It's not actually the Ultralite that's got it wrong, it's the simpleton routing setup in Ableton... Are you using the dedicated Main Outs to feed your speakers or individual outs 1-2?

Ultralite outputs in order are:
1-2 Phones (able to be configured to reflect Main Outs however still adressed as individual outs)
3 -10 Outputs 1-8
11-12 Main Outs
13-14 Digital

So you see, when you send something out Ableton Out 7, count through and you've got Phones (1,2), Analogue outs 1,2,3,4 and 5

Ableton's i/o configuration consists of a nameless on/off switch for each adressable in and out. Effective and hard to get wrong - until you use slightly more sophisticated hardware, then it becomes a bit of a hindrance.

Cubase for example allows me to set up as many input/output busses as I like and then specify which physical connections that buss will listen to or address - each buss can be named something sensible and the i/o channels appear as what they actually are as well as their number. So for example I might have a mono output buss called 'Reverb' which is set to send to (as it appears in the list) '3 - Analogue out 1'.

Basically, if you want to keep it easy, just add 2 to your output assignments to keep it kosher.

If you had been using cue in Ableton this would be clear as your cue channel would be 1-2 whereas your main out is 11-12.

[dylab]

thanks ..
that makes perfect sense