SOLVED 2nd time with New MOTU 896mk3 Hybrid - How to direct monitor

CueMix EFX is the application you use to control the onboard monitoring features.
It's definitely there...   

I'm looking at the pdf version of the 896's manual. What page is this pic on that you're referring to?
 
I think what you're asking is confusing.
 
You are trying to route an output to an output? out 7/8 to main out?
 
It will help to know what signal is on outputs 7/8. Is it something connected to a hardware input, or is it an internal computer signal, such as audio playing on a track in SONAR?
 
Basically, if it's something connected to a hardware input on the 896mk3, you just set that input track's output in SONAR to the 896MK3 Main output. If it's audio playing on a track in SONAR, you set that track's output to the 896's mainout or a bus that has the 896's mainout as its output.
 
Hope that helps.
 
EDIT:
 
Oh I see. That's a figure pic showing how to setup talk back and listen back.
 
You might find the CueMixFX tutorial video helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48vYfBl3DaU
 
The talk back listen back part starts about 5:45 into the video.
 And/or read carefully and follow step by step the explanation for the talkback listen back hardware setup that goes with that figure 9-25 in the manual.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FWIW, CueMix is just new/different than what you're used to...
It's not overly complex once you're up-to-speed.
CueMix buses are separate from the "Main Outputs".
 
If I remember correctly, you have four CueMix output "buses".
You select an output for each of the four buses... and you can then send any input/s to this bus.
You can adjust volume... apply dynamics/EQ... and you've also got EFX sends for reverb.
 
The newer MOTU AVB series has even more flexibility with completely free patching.
Similar to TotalMix FX...
 
 
 

Too late, Jim.  Its at UPS on the way back to B&H. 
I went over the manual, what I could find on the web and my own "computer techie" skills and couldn't get the routing.  Even figuring out the hardware monitoring was a bit of a job.  "Different" doesn't bother me, I've been in computers and networking for many years (basically since 1968) in both software and hardware positions.  "Managing Change" was the name of the game. 

The Roland Octa-Capture, I'm now using, has a routing program but for example the hardware monitoring is "built in" no software action is required.  I wanted to route an additional "master" out on a different line and it was "one click" in the control program and it was done - didn't have to read the manual or go on line to try and find out how to do it or try to get help from an on-line forum.  I used to have an M-Audio interface when I was dabbling in Pro Tools and it too had a software program for routing but the input monitoring was built in, no software action was required.
 
 

Okay, hope the crow was cooked and not raw.
I've had mine for a little over 24 hours, so I have a question.  The first page I come to is a sheet in the user guide is a sheet titled "Part 1 Getting Started".  The next page is a front view of the Motu 896mk3.  #12 is the Main Out and the associated text below says see page 95, Monitor Group.

I'm still reading the manual.  If I assign any outputs to the monitor group can't they be heard through the Main Out 1/4" phone jack?  I thought that is how it works.

How did you finally get your interface working?
 
Did you use the audio or reverb returns inside sonar, or what did you do?

I play sax (all my life), hence the name.
I DID also hook into USB3 because I have a card thinking I might increase the speed, but have read that 2.0 is all that is required.  If I start to hear pops/static I'll know what to do.  Thanks for that.

Yes, what I've read is the front 1/4" and two balanced XLR for the mains are hardwired.  I did read about "follow active mix" so that is probably what I will do.

I have the Roland VS-2480 4xVSF3 boards & plugins, Triton LE & Casio Keyboards, Midi TimePieceAV USB since 2005, TC-Helicon VoiceLive Rack, old guitar-to-midi Terratec Producer Axon w/Module, GSP1101, a WX5 WindSynth and various other gear, so I have a lot to hook up.
 
My reason for purchasing the audio Motu is getting audio into and out of the VS-2480 is near impossible these days.  My rewriteable dvds/cds have become scratched and the recorder has become so much touchier and harder to deal with even with pristine recommended disks.
 
That is where the 896mk3 comes to the rescue.  But I've gotten so much more than I bargained for with CueMix and the built in 16 channel (8 bus stereo) mixer that's built in -- a huge plus imo.  Now it's just a matter of getting everything hooked up and routed.  All my cables come today!  :)
 
Also recently, just before my 896mk3 hybrid purchase I bought a FA-08, that is my midi-to-audio workhorse.  The sounds seem so much better than Casio or even the Triton-LE, but honestly I've never fully explored the Triton sounds that I have.  Since I have the early midi Motu and all the keyboard and other modules (Axon & JV-1010) outputs are audio, and the FA-08 will take ANY midi file and spit out good quality audio wav files per midi track, it seems that AudioDesk 4.0 might fit my needs without all of the synth stuff because I'm not into that sound.
 
I'm glad you've persevered with the 896mk3 and stuck with it (in a roundabout sort of way).  I too am a computer guy -- Sr. Systems Software Programmer/Analyst.  I'm just kind of upset with Roland that they've hidden the SysEx commands and proprietary file formats that they use in the FA, at least for now.
 
I own an early release of Finale that came with make music.  A light version of Cubase came with the Axon.  I own the OmniPak and Audiophile versions of Band-In-A-Box, so I use RealTracks right now for a 'light' DAW, but ALL of my mixing is hardware based and automated...  the VS-2480 recently combined with the 896mk3 once I get it hooked up.

I did look at Cakewalk years ago just after I bought Finale and it looked really good, and I"ve heard really good things about it back then.  And recently I heard that Motu sold off Sonar, which I suppose is a really good package, but I don't seem to be in the market now unless someone can tell me different -- which is another reason I joined this forum -- always looking for the next best and slightly of the mindset that newer is better, faster, and more efficient.
 
I wouldn't know where to start with DP9, Sonar, Cubase, ProTools, Reaper, yada-yada... so much to choose from.  Anyway, had some time to kill as cable shipment won't be here for a few more hours.  Back to getting everything in place so all I need to do is patch in the cables into the system to connect everything.  ttyl.

Makes total sense to me.  :)   Thanks.

I already knew that, but I'm out of ports on my PC.  However, I will swap some things around so as not to waste a 3.0 port.

Going to get my connectors soon...  kinda excited to see what this baby can handle.
 
ttyl.