How To Adjust Volume of Studio Monitors in PT12?

[johnbarnesiii]

Hi guys,

I just made the upgrade from PT10 to PT12 a couple days ago and had a question about how to turn volume up and down in my sessions...

This may sound like a silly question but in PT10 I was able to use the volume buttons on my Mac's keyboard to control the volume (turn up and down) coming out of my KRK Rokit 5 studio monitors in my PT sessions.

Now in PT12 the volume buttons on my Mac no longer seem to affect the actual volume of my sessions. So I'm wondering what changed and how can I again control the volume of sessions without literally having to manually use the studio monitors' volume knobs in the back every time!

[john1192]

Originally Posted by johnbarnesiii

Hi guys,

I just made the upgrade from PT10 to PT12 a couple days ago and had a question about how to turn volume up and down in my sessions...

This may sound like a silly question but in PT10 I was able to use the volume buttons on my Mac's keyboard to turn the volume up and down in my PT sessions. I am using KRK Rokit 5s as studio monitors.

Now in PT12 the volume buttons on my Mac no longer seem to affect the actual volume of my sessions. So I'm wondering what changed and how can I again control the volume of sessions without literally having to manually use the studio monitors' volume knobs in the back every time!

hi, sounds like you are using the internal sound card of your computer (core audio) ... are you now using a separate audio interface ???

you did not give too much system info so guessing a bit ..

is this a laptop or ???

cheers john

[johnbarnesiii]

Hi John,

I'm using a MacBook Pro 17" (late 2011)
2.4 Ghz processor Intel core i7
8GB memory
SSD internal drive (120 GB)

I'm also using a MOTU 828MKII as audio interface, which I was also using on PT10.

Thanks for any help!

[john1192]

Originally Posted by johnbarnesiii

Hi John,

I'm using a MacBook Pro 17" (late 2011)
2.4 Ghz processor Intel core i7
8GB memory
SSD internal drive (120 GB)

I'm also using a MOTU 828MKII as audio interface, which I was also using on PT10.

Thanks for any help!

hi john, there must be some setup that is different from your last setup with PT10 ...

is there anything in the Motu Control Software that might be different .. ??

cheers john

[CygnusX-1Bk2]

The only way the volume buttons on a Mac keyboard would control the output of an external IO is if the default output in System Preferences were the IO and not the internal sound card.

[Darryl Ramm]

As others have pointed out you description of how this worked in the past does not make sense.

The only control of main output volume you have when the MOTU is the interface is the master volume knob on the MOTU box, and the various mix/fader controls in the CuemixFX software.