Cymatic Audio uTrack 24 Manual - Manual (Page 12)

PRODUCT MANUAL PRODUCT MANUAL 23 22 MIX PAGE LOADING AUDIO FILES FOR PLAYBACK
The droputs display only occurs while the recording is occuring, it does not persist once the
transport is stopped. However, if any dropouts have occurred, a dropouts log will be written to the
attached USB drive, residing in the same folder as the take. The log gives details of how many
dropouts there were and at what point in time they occurred.
See the section “USB Hard Drives vs. USB Flash Drives” for detailed information on what types
of hard drives to use, in order to guaranatee your recording will be dropout free.
17. MIX PAGE
When recording, it is crucial to monitor an “in the field” stereo mix of the recording in progress.
For this purpose, the uTrack 24 contains a built-in 24-input stereo monitor mixer, allowing you to
monitor a stereo mix of the incoming 24 channels of audio, while adjusting various mix parameters.
The mixer is active only for the currently active recording channels.
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The adjustments you make affect the monitor mix only; they have no effect on the actual recording
taking place.
Only during playback, the built-in monitor mixer mixes the outgoing 24 channels of audio. The
mixer parameters are taken from the settings file present in the audio project. Once the playback
stops, the mixer works on the incoming channels and the previous mixer settings are loaded
back.
The stereo mix can be monitored from both the front panel headphone output as well as the rear
panel’s main outputs; both outputs have their own dedicated volume level controls.
To bring up the monitor mixer and adjust the parameters for each channel:
Press the front panel rotary encoder. The display will switch to the “MIX” screen as shown below
Once in the “MIX” screen, press the rotary encoder to move between the various parameters.
When on a parameter it will be highlighted and can by adjusted by rotating the encoder.
To exit the monitor mixer screen, press the BACK button
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The MIX screen contains the following five parameters you can adjust:
1. Channel Number
This represents the input channel or playback channel that you can then adjust volume/mute/
solo, and panning for.
2. Channel Volume
Adjusts the relative listening volume of the currently selected channel
3. Mute On/Off
Mutes the currently selected channel, removing its audio from the monitor mix. Note that the
channel will always still be recorded; muting it simply removes it from the monitor mix.
4. Solo On/Off
Solos the selected channel. This is very useful when fine-tuning a microphone position, allowing
you to hear the individual channel’s signal without the distraction of the other channels in the
monitor mix.
Alternate Solo Method: Press and hold the rotary encoder as a quick way to instantly solo the
currently selected channel. This method allows you to quickly select and solo channels one by
one, with fewer steps.
Note that soloing of a selected channel is temporary; it only lasts as long as the channel is
selected. When a different channel is selected, the solo status of the previous channel is cleared.
5. Pan Control
Adjusts the selected channel’s pan position in the stereo field.
Metering
When in the MIX page, the front panel metering LEDs act as a single 24-segment level meter for
the currently selected channel.
This allows you to fine tune the signal level of the selected channel with a higher level of resolution.
18. LOADING AUDIO FILES FOR PLAYBACK
Press the BROWSE button on the front panel to switch the display to the BROWSER screen.
The BROWSER screen will show a folder named “MultiTrack” that contains all of the multitrack
audio files that can be selected for playback on the uTrack 24.
Rotate the encoder to highlight the MultiTrack folder then press it to select. You will then see a list
of all of the different MultiTrack takes that have been saved to the Multitrack folder.
MultiTrack takes are denoted with this icon:
Rotate the encoder to select the desired take, and then press the encoder to load it for playback.
The selected take will now be shown on the PLAY screen and it is ready for playing back, simply
by pressing the PLAY button.
If the highlight bar hovers over a song, without being moved to another song, for more than 2
seconds, it will be preloaded in order to start playback without delay. A popup screen will appear
to show this has occurred: