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Hi, there's a few things to answer...
- The Zoom, I'm honestly not sure what drivers it's using, but a lot of sound interface installer programs will install both ASIO and WDM drivers on windows. Windows can't use ASIO directly, it can only use it via a host program that runs on it like Pro Tools, Cubase etc... I don't remember ever installing drivers for the ZOOM, but it works, so either i did install them at some point, or it does have the option of MAC or Windows interface when you plug it in, so might be something in the firmware or format..
- Your MOTU will only show up as a single device in the windows sound settings, but it is a multi channel device. You can have up to 8 channels via WDM provided the MOTU supports that many.
- That's good you are seeing the MOTU inputs in the patch page of Fairlight, that means windows is passing them to DVR in multi channel. Is it possible that the track you are recording on has a different MOTU input patched to it than the one your microphone is in maybe? The thing with Fairlight is it needs to have an input patched to it, or the track won't arm for record, so something is patched to that track, but might not be the correct input from the MOTU. There are a couple of ways to patch the interface input to a track.
1. In the Fairlight menu top of the screen select the 'patch input.output' page in order to patch the mic input of your interface to the track you want to record on. I've attached a screenshot of what the patch input/output page should look like. When you first open it, it doesn't default to the settings you need in the 'SOURCE' and 'DESTINATION' dropdown selector windows, so you need to change them. The dropdown menus next to source and destination have a few options, but you for source you need to select 'Audio Inputs' and for Destination you need to select 'Track Input'. Say your mic is in input 1 of the MOTU, on the left side you click 1.MOTU in, or what ever it may be called and a white outline will appear around it, then on the right you click whichever track you want to record on and a white outline will appear, and down the bottom right corner of the panel, the button with 'patch' will become brighter text, click on that and they are patched. Then close the patch page and go back to the Fairlight timeline and arm the track you just patched the MOTU to.
2. This way is simpler, but you need to have the mixer open. Create the track, call it 'VOICEOVER'. Find that track in the mixer, and at the top of that channel, is a little window for input. Click on it, and options will pop up, choose the second one called 'input'. This will bring up the patch I/O page, but with the source and destination set for what you need, and your track will already be highlighted in the destination side, all you have to do is select the input your mic is in and click 'patch' then close the i/o patch page. This is quicker, but some don't work with the mixer open, so it's good to know both ways.
Also make sure your record track is mono or it will only record on one side, and you have to press the round transport record button, just to the left of the loop icon and it will start recording, you can't just press the spacebar like you can on some other recording software.
See if that works? To answer your other question, if you are seeing a motu input as an audio input on the patch I/O page, then yes it should send signal to the track it is patched to. If the correct input is patched to the record track I'd maybe double check the motu software mixer, even do a factory reset if possible just to make sure the routing is all as it should be.
The surround monitoring thing is a bit long to go into as a post, but I'll try to do a video of the setup.