Specifications

MACKIE
D8B (DIGITAL 8•BUS)
AUDIO MIXERS
393
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Mackie MFX and UFX Cards and Digital 8•Bus Plug-ins
The D8B’s open architecture lets you take advantage of some of the world’s most creative software companies. These plug-ins
are made possible by the D8B’s advanced operating system and optional MFX and UFX cards. The D8B has four card slots
in the rear labeled “Digital Effects Cards”. The D8B comes with one MFX card comes installed. That leaves three slots to
fill up. You can mix and match MFX and UFX cards depending on the plug-ins you want to use. The D8B is the only
digital consoles that supports such a wide variety of plug-ins from the world’s best processor and effects companies and
there’s more to come.
MFX Card
The MFX card is the host for
Mackie Effects reverbs, choruses,
echos etc...The IVL Vocal Studio
Demo is included.Adding a second
MFX card unlocks the official Vocal
Studio plug-in. (One MFX card
comes with your D8B.) MFX cards
can be mixed with UFX cards,up to
a total of four. Removing the MFX
card will disable the Mackie Effects,
and Vocal Studio.
UFX Card
The UFX Card is the host for Acuma,Antares, Drawmer, and
Massenburg plug-ins.Mackie Mono Delay and T.C Electronic’s
TC FX II (provides reverbs from the renowned M2000) are
bundled free with a UFX card. UFX and MFX cards can be mixed
(up to a total of four cards).
◆ UFX cards are 4-in/4-out,
which means each card can
simultaneously support
either: Four mono effects, or
two mono and one stereo
effect, or two stereo effects
◆ Up to four UFX cards can
be installed in the D8B.This
allows you to run up to 16
channels of mono or 8
channels of stereo plug-in
effects simultaneously.
Drawmer
ADX100
Frequency-Conscious Gating,
Compression, Limiting and Expansion
Acknowledged as master of the analog dynamics processor,
Drawmer now offers its expertise to the Mackie Digital 8•Bus.
◆ Left and Right input levels. -15.75dB to +16dB in 0.25dB
increments.
◆ Input VU meters. -42dB to 0dB.
◆ Faders for quick parameter control.All thresholds and levels
are in linear dBs, but other controls are scaled to a user
friendly law which minimizes 'fine tuning' and allows a wide
range of operation.
◆ You can instantly recall two preferred settings.
◆ Noise Gate is a switch designed for percussive signals, such
as drums where it can shape the envelope to create a crisp,
well defined signal.
◆ Gate/Duck switch.When Duck is selected,the operation is
reversed,so that when the signal is above threshold,the out-
put is attenuated.Below Threshold, the signal passes un-
attenuated.
Antares
AUTO-TUNE
Pitch Correction for Voice or Solo
Instrument
The worldwide
standard in
professional pitch
correction,Auto-Tune
corrects intonation
problems in vocals or
solo instruments, in
real time,without
distortion or artifacts,
while preserving all of
the expressive nuance
of the original performance. In fact,Auto-Tune offers audio
quality so pristine that the only difference between what goes
in and what comes out is the intonation.
The precision by which Auto-Tune detects pitch is extraordi-
nary.At a frequency of 400 Hz and a sample rate of 44100, the
Auto-Tune DSP algorithm computes the pitch to an accuracy
of .0001 samples per cycle, or .0004 Hz.At this resolution,the
very question "What is pitch?" becomes relevant.That is, as the
pitch of typical performances continuously change,the
amount of variation in pitch,even over the time of a few
cycles,changes greatly in comparison to the accuracy by which
Auto-Tune computes pitch.
UFX Card
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MFX Card
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