User Manual

ROUTING AUDIO AND CV
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About this chapter
This chapter describes the various signals used in Record (and Reason) and how you can route them.
Signal types
The following signal types are used in Record:
Audio signals
Apart from the Spider CV, Matrix Pattern Sequencer (Record+Reason) and the RPG-8 Arpeggiator (Record+Rea-
son), all devices have audio connectors on the back. The audio connectors carry audio signals to or from devices via
virtual cables.
D Audio connectors are shown as large quarter inch jacks.
D Audio Effects devices, which are used to process audio, have both audio inputs and outputs.
D Instrument devices, which generate audio, have either mono or stereo left/right audio output connectors.
You do not have to use both outputs for devices with stereo outputs. Use the left output to use a mono signal from
a stereo device.
D To monitor audio outputs from devices, the signals can be routed, either via the Main Mixer or directly, to the
physical outputs of your audio interface via the Record Hardware Interface (see “Manual audio routing”).
Typically, if you are using an audio interface with stereo outputs, you will most likely use the Main Mixer to mix the
audio signals to the master outputs.
D To route audio input signals from your audio interface to audio tracks in the sequencer, you just have to select
the appropriate input(s) from the Audio Input drop-down list on the corresponding audio track (see “Selecting
audio input(s) and defining mono or stereo”).
This means that you never have to manually patch input signals from the Audio In jacks of the Record Hardware
Device.
For more information about signal paths in Record, see “System signal paths”.
CV/Gate signals
In the early days of synthesizers, before the MIDI protocol was invented, analog synthesizers could be interconnected
using Control Voltage (CV) cables. For example, one cable would be used for controlling pitch while another would
send a Gate voltage, basically telling a synth when to play a note and when to stop. The CV signal cables in Record
emulate this analog control system. CV signals are typically used to modulate parameter values, and do not carry au-
dio.
D CV/Gate connectors are shown as smaller mini jacks.
D CV is typically used for modulation purposes.
For example, you could modulate a parameter with a CV signal generated by an LFO or an envelope generator on
another device.
D Gate outputs/inputs are typically used to trigger events, such as note on/off values, envelopes etc.
Gate signals produce on/off values, plus a “value” which could be likened to (and used as) velocity.
D You can only route CV/Gate signals from an output to an input (or vice versa).
You cannot route an input to another input or an output to another output.