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CONFIGURING HOST AUDIO SOFTWARE
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For information on how you can identify each
input and output in a numbered list like this, see
Appendix A, “Audio I/O reference” page (127).
NUMBER OF CHANNELS
If your host audio software requires that you
specify the number of audio voices or channels you
will be using, be sure to choose enough channels to
cover the 28 inputs and 32 outputs provided by
your 896mk3 Hybrid — although the number of
channels may depend on how your 896mk3 Hybrid
is configured.
PROCESSING LIVE INPUTS WITH HOST
PLUG-INS
If you patch a live input (such as a MIDI
synthesizer) through a plug-in effect in your host
software, you might hear a slight delay. There are
several ways to reduce this delay. For details, see
chapter 8, “Reducing Monitoring Latency”
(page 67).
WORKING WITH CUEMIX FX MIXING AND
EFFECTS
The 896mk3 Hybrid provides powerful external
mixing, EQ, compression and reverb, which you
can operate hand-in-hand with your host’s mixing
environment. For example, the 896mk3 Hybrid
can serve as a monitor mixer routing channels to
musicians, or it can serve as an integrated
extension of your host’s mixing environment. If
you program an 896mk3 Hybrid mixing and
processing configuration that goes hand in hand
with your host project, be sure to use the file save
features in CueMix FX to save the 896mk3 Hybrid
settings as a file in your host project folder for
instant recall of all settings. See chapter 9, “CueMix
FX” (page 73) for complete details.
SYNCHRONIZATION
As you read through the following sections to
decide what form of synchronization you might
need with other devices in your studio, be sure to
consult “Making sync connections” on page 28 for
the proper hardware connections. Use the
synchronization diagrams to be clear about how
you will be synchronizing your audio software and
the 896mk3 Hybrid to the other components of
your system.
Synchronizing digital audio connections
If you have devices connected to the 896mk3
Hybrid digital inputs (optical or RCA S/PDIF), you
need to be concerned with the synchronization of
the 896mk3 Hybrid’s digital audio clock with other
devices connected to it digitally (if any). For
example, if you have a digital mixer connected to
the 896mk3 Hybrid via an ADAT optical light pipe
cable, you need to make sure that their audio clocks
are phase-locked. For details, see “Choosing a
clock source for optical connections” on page 25
and “Making sync connections” on page 28. If you
don’t have any digital audio devices connected to
the 896mk3 Hybrid, digital audio phase-lock does
not apply to you.
Resolving directly to time code (with no
synchronizer)
If your host audio software supports Core Audio’s
sample-accurate positioning protocol, or if it can
slave to MIDI Time Code, then it can resolve to the
896mk3 Hybrid’s built-in time code synchroni-
zation feature. To resolve your 896mk3 Hybrid
directly to SMPTE time code with no additional
synchronization devices, use the setup shown in
“Syncing to SMPTE time code” on page 34.
USING A FOOT SWITCH
Use a foot switch connected to the 896mk3 Hybrid
to trigger recording punch-in and punch-out, or
any other feature in your host audio software that is
assigned to a keyboard shortcut.
By default, the foot switch triggers the 3 key on the
keyboard number pad (which toggles the record
button in Digital Performer and AudioDesk). To
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