User Manual

THE MAIN MIXER
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Using the Mix Channel and Audio Track devices’ Direct Outs
The Mix Channel and Audio Track devices feature Direct Out connectors. By patching cables into these outputs, you
break the internal signal chain from the device to the Master Section, and can route the channel output signals di-
rectly to the Record Hardware Device’s outputs. This is a very nice feature if you want to use outboard mixing or sum-
ming - or if you’re using ReWire (see “ReWire”) to route individual channel signals to another application.
You could also patch cables from the Direct Outs to a Mixer device to create a sub-mixer, for example (see “Creating
a sub-mixer”).
The example below shows how to route the Direct Outs of a number of Audio Track devices to separate outputs of
the Record Hardware Device:
Direct routing of individual channel outputs to individual outputs on the Record Hardware Device
! Using the Direct Outs will break the internal P-LAN routing to the Master Section device!
Creating an input channel for recording with effects
When you record on an audio track, the input signal is routed “dry” to the audio track. Then, when you play back the
recorded audio, the signal goes via the channel strip, with all its settings and any Insert FX etc. However, there might
be situations where you want to record a processed signal to the audio track. For example, if you record an electric
guitar, you might want to record it with distortion effects or similar.
The example below shows a typical setup where a separate Mix Channel device is used for processing the input sig-
nal before it’s routed to the audio track for recording: