PreSonus FireStudio Tube - Manual (Page 24)

CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS
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3.1 UNIVERSAL CONTROL AND THE FIRESTUDIO TUBE
Like all members of the FireStudio family of interfaces, the FireStudio Tube is compatible with Universal
Control. Universal Control is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use control-panel application for creating mulitple
mixes from your input and output signals for each of your FireStudio Project’s output pairs (mains, general
purpose, and headphones). This application also allows you to daisy-chain FireStudio-family interfaces. The
FireStudio Tube can be connected to up to 3 other FireStudio-family devices for a maximum of up to 52 inputs
and outputs.
Universal Control consists of the Launch window and the Device window. In the Launch window, you can set
basic parameters such as sample rate, clock source, and buffer size. The Device window of the FireStudio Tube
is the FireStudio Tube Mixer. The Mixer section of the Universal Control Panel was designed to look and feel
like a hardware mixer, so most of the features may already be familiar to you. From this mixer, you can create a
zero-latency mix for each output and can route playback streams from your host application.
3.1.1 Universal Control Application Icon
If you are using Microsoft Windows, once you have successfully installed your
FireStudio Tube, the Universal Control will be available from the Notification Area of
your taskbar (typically at the bottom right corner of your screen, near the clock).
The Universal Control icon is red when your FireStudio Tube is disconnected or not installed and blue when
the FireStudio Tube is connected and properly installed.
Open the Universal Control by double-clicking the blue Universal Control icon or by right-clicking the icon
and selecting “Open PreSonus Universal Control.”
Right-click the Universal Control icon and select “Quit” to exit the Universal Control application and remove
it from your taskbar. The Universal Control application can also be accessed from the PreSonus folder in the
Start Menu.
Mac OS X users will find the Universal Control application in the Applications folder. We
recommend that you copy it to your Dock for easy access.