SoundGrid Studio User Guide / Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to SoundGrid Studio
- Part 1: Getting Started
- Part 2: Top Bar
- Part 3: Setup Window
- Setup Window Overview
- Network Controls
- Device Racks: Assigning and Managing Network Devices
- I/O Devices Racks
- I/O Device Racks Displays and Controls
- I/O Devices Menu Items
- SG Connect
- I/O Sharing
- Connected Systems
- System Inventory in Super Systems
- Sharing a Device
- Setting up Device Sharing
- Shared Devices: Clocking Considerations
- Patching Shared Devices
- Patching Shared Output Devices
- Shared and Un-Shared Devices in the Patch
- Removing Shared Devices
- If the Sharing Host Becomes Unavailable
- Share Preamp Control
- Servers
- External Control Devices
- Setting Sample Rate
- Assigning I/O Devices Manually
- Working Offline
- Mixer Settings
- User Interface Settings Section
- Patch Window Sections
- The Patch Grid
- Mixer Layers
- Mixer Channels
- Mixer Layer Modes
- Using Plugins
- Monitor Panel
- INCORPORATING MIDI
- MACKIE CONTROL PROTOCOL
- Setting Up Mackie HUI in a DAW
- Setup Window Overview
- Part 4: Patch Window
- Part 5: Mixer Window
- Appendix
Part 2 Top Bar
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DSP METER
The average peak processing load value is displayed as a green bar and peak value as a yellow
line. Red indicates that an audio drop has occurred. The bar is gray when a server is not assigned.
This may happen for two reasons:
Processing overload (momentary or constant)
Solution: Disable some plugins.
Some plugins exhibit a high average/peak ratio. This may cause temporary CPU overloads that result in
audio drops. When adding a large number of these plugins, the peak and average indicators will drift apart.
In such cases, some of these plugins may need to be disabled.
High network usage (channels over the network)
Solution: Increase server network buffer size.
Learn more about server setups in the next chapter.
VOICES
Voices displays the number of StudioRack Channels in use compared with the number of allotted
channels. This applies only to a server-based system and is independent of the voices used in a DAW.
Using StudioRack with SoundGrid Studio is discussed later in this user guide. Refer, too, to the
StudioRack product page.
TEMPO
System tempo (BPM) is indicated in the value box and by the blinking light. To change tempo,
enter a BPM rate in the field or tap the Tap button, in rhythm, for several seconds. These taps
will be averaged to set the new tempo.
Click Sync next to the Tempo value box to slave SoundGrid Studio to the DAW tempo. This requires at least one
StudioRack instance to be open in your DAW.