. User Guide Introduction Thanks for choosing M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. Fast Track Ultra has been designed to give you a professional, portable audio and MIDI interface for your Windows or Macintosh laptop or desktop computer.
Using the convenience and dependability of the industry-standard USB 2.0 bus, Fast Track Ultra provides your computer with an exceptionally flexible audio interface. Two front-panel balanced Mic inputs on XLR jacks ‣ Four Mic/Line input switches ‣ Four high-quality microphone preamps, based on M-Audio’s acclaimed Octane technology ‣ Six balanced/unbalanced line inputs on TRS jacks ‣ Six balanced/unbalanced line outputs on TRS jacks ‣.
Fast Track Ultra 8R • Fast Track USB. We don't have any compatible drivers yet with Mac High Sierra for your M-Audio Fast Track Pro. You can try to check the.
512 MB RAM. G4 1GHz CPU. Intel CPU.
M-Audio suggests that you also check the minimum system requirements for your software, as they may be greater than the above. G4 accelerator cards not supported ➤ IMPORTANT NOTE: Fast Track Ultra has been designed as a USB 2.0 device. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Controls and Connectors Front Panel. Microphone/Instrument Inputs 1 and 2 (Mic/Inst) – These combo connectors provide mic- or instrument-level inputs for analog channels 1 and 2.
Fast Track Ultra User Guide Rear Panel. Power Button (Power) – Pressing this button will power on Fast Track Ultra, illuminating the front-panel Power LED.
The unit must be connected to a host computer’s USB bus, or to the external power supply. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Installing Fast Track Ultra For instructions on installing Fast Track Ultra, please refer to the accompanying Quick Start Guide. Hardware Connections Recording Microphones Fast Track Ultra can record from up to four microphones simultaneously, connected to inputs 1 through 4 via the two front-panel XLR/TRS inputs and two XLR inputs. The following sections address a number of real-life situations that you may encounter while using your Fast Track Ultra.
These brief tutorials should help guide you through them. Also check the M-Audio website from time to time for additional tutorials or FAQs. Setting Up Your Recording Levels. Windows XP Windows Vista In Mac OS X, click the “M-Audio Fast Track Ultra” icon in the system preferences window. The control panel offers eight tabs, providing monitoring options for all eight outputs as well as a number of additional features. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Monitor Tabs The four Monitor tabs are similar in layout and in operation. Each will allow you to monitor and control the routing of the eight hardware inputs, along with eight returns from your DAW, and send those signals to the tab’s corresponding output pair.
Fast Track Ultra User Guide Input Channels The first eight channels on each of the Monitor pages correspond to the six analog inputs and two S/PDIF digital inputs. The next eight channels are returns from your DAW application software. Any of these 16 channels can be sent to any of eight possible output busses by selecting the Monitor tab for the desired output pair and setting the levels for the input and software return channels respectively. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Output Channels The right side of each Monitor tab provides level meters and faders for its corresponding stereo pair of outputs. Each Monitor tab’s output faders control the output level sent to that pair of hardware outputs. The Monitor tabs correspond to each pair of hardware outputs: Monitor outputs 1/2, 3/4, and 5/6 correspond to the six analog outputs. Fast Track Ultra User Guide External Signal Status This box displays messages indicating the current synchronization status.
If the status in the Clock panel (see the Clock section below) is set to “Internal, ” the External Signal Status panel will display this message: “Because the clock has been set to ‘internal’. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Driver Settings ASIO/WDM Buffer Size (Windows only) Latency is defined as the time it takes for your input signal to pass through your audio software and appear at the outputs. This latency can result in a delay that is undesirable when overdubbing to existing tracks. Smaller buffer sizes result in lower latency, but may not function well with slower systems, causing clicks, pops and dropouts in the audio playback. Fast Track Ultra User Guide Meters Tab This tab provides an immediate overview of the eight hardware inputs and outputs. This is useful when setting up levels for live tracking or mixdown. Flow Tab This tab displays a graphic of Fast Track Ultra signal flow.
Clicking the buttons in the lower right will take you to useful pages on the M-Audio website. If your computer does not see a valid connection to Fast Track Ultra, or if the unit is powered off, you will see a message. Increasing the buffer size can be helpful, particularly in the case of older or lower-powered systems. If you are using a USB hub, try connecting Fast Track Ultra directly to your computer. For more troubleshooting tips, visit the Knowledge Base at www.m-audio.com. Fast Track Ultra User Guide 11 Specifications Line Outputs Frequency Response: 20 Hz to 22 kHz, +/- 0.1 dB @ 48 kHz sample rate SNR and Dynamic Range: -104 dB, A-weighted THD+N: 0.002%@ -1dBFS, 1kHz Signal Level: +10 dBu balanced +2 dBV, unbalanced Impedance: 300 Ohm balanced.
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On the Avid page the Fast Track Ultra is definately there. USB devices mentioned as falling under Avid are: Eleven Rack Drivers Mbox (3rd gen) Drivers Mbox Mini (3rd gen) Drivers Mbox 2 Drivers Mbox 2 Mini Drivers Mbox 2 Micro Drivers Fast Track C400 Drivers Fast Track C600 Drivers Fast Track Pro Drivers Fast Track Ultra Drivers Fast Track Ultra 8R Drivers Fast Track USB Drivers Fast Track (2nd gen) Drivers MobilePre USB Drivers MobilePre (2nd gen) Drivers It's all there! Kevin #179283 - 11/18/12 03:29 PM Band-in-a-Box for Windows Re: M-Audio Fast Track Ultra abandoned. This news is depressing. I bought a Fast Track Ultra last year too, and like it very much. I agree: without that applet to control the channels, the Fast Track Ultra can't do much.
Hey Kevin, where did you find that list? I searched all over the avid pages and could not find anything related to the Fast Track Ultra (they have the 'Ultra R' listed, but that's a different beast). So now I have to start offering sacrifices to the electronic gods, hoping that my Fast Track Ultra continues to function.
Anyway, thanks for the heads up. Win 8 is an attempt by Microsoft to acknowledge the end of the 'PC Era' and accept that Smartphones and Tablets will herald the 'Consumerization of IT.' Dealing with this is essentially what I do for a living, and it IS a fact, although much less so than the media would have you believe. Corporations still have hundreds of thousands of drone workers using XP and Office 2003, and would probably see ZERO benefit to moving to even Win7 (many were burned by Vista, and thus shy.) The User Interface (previously know n as METRO is much more suited to phones and tablets (touch) than traditional desktop / laptop. MSFT screwed up on their user focus groups and testing with this one. Sigh, here we go again, bash Microsoft.
Have you not read the very comprehensive testing done by Cakewalk with Sonar? There's a thread around here with the link and in fact there's two links I think the other one is Pro Tools.
Both report Win 8 is faster running these DAWs. Nnot just a little bit faster, much faster. This is using the Desktop version, not Metro. There's several people on this forum running Biab under Win 8 and they love it. How can somebody say they don't see any reason to change if they don't know about these things?
True, maybe for what you do, you don't need the extra speed but man, every new OS has lots of hidden features that usually make our computer lives much easier and as a general rule, newer is better even if you don't know the details about them. I'm in the process now of checking out my setup to make sure everything I have will run ok under Win 8 and if it looks good, I'll upgrade. Quote: I just picked up a C-600 interface and have been able to use it fine with the Pro Tools SE that came with it, but I'm missing some setting trying to use it with RealBand. I'm using a Lenovo T410 laptop, Win 7 (32 bit) BB/ RealBand 2012.
When I call up the VU meter window in RB there is signal being read, but getting it onto a track has me stumped. Change the track type to Audio?(right click menu) If you see signal on input meter in RB, the signal made it to RB and the Driver selection should be good. So likely it's a simple setting somewhere.
If changing the track type works, go to Preferences and enable the 'Always Record Audio Too.' Checkbox, so if you accidently do it again it will keep the take on another track (you don't lose a performance). Perhaps some of us who have worked extensively (for a living) with MSFT software for over 30 years have some insights that someone who has not doesn't. When you consider the HORRENDOUS adoption rate of Windows 8, it just MIGHT indicate that newer is NOT always better, and that the collective experiences of an entire global community just MAY be right.
A little extra speed is always nice, but not when the trade-off is so substantial. Just my opinion, but having worked in End-User computing since DOS 1.0, I have seen more than a few upgrades from Microsoft. Edited by PhillyJazz ( 07/10/13 12:03 PM). With, the SongPicker has been redesigned! -The completely redesigned window shows information for up to 50,000 songs.The song list build is much faster.
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