E-MU 1212M PCIe - Manual (Page 49)

4 - The PatchMix DSP Mixer
Mixer Strip Creation
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Level, Pan, Solo & Mute Controls
Level Control
Pan Controls
Mute & Solo
Buttons
Aux Send
Amount
Controls
Scribble Strip
The Pan control comes before the Level Control
and Aux Sends in the signal flow. On stereo strips
we use an unconventional pan section with two
pan pots – one for the left part of the signal and
one for the right part of the signal. This feature
allows you to independently position both sides
of the stereo signal. A conventional stereo balance
control only allows you to turn down one side or
the other.
The Mute button does just what you would
expect—press the button and the sound from that
channel is cut off. Pressing the Solo button while
the Mute button is pressed allows you to hear the
channel until solo is turned off.
The Solo button allows you to listen to only that
channel while muting the rest of the inputs. If
multiple solo buttons are pressed, you will hear all
soloed channels and the non-soloed channels will
all be muted.
The mute status is remembered if a muted channel
is soloed. When the channel solo is turned off, the
channel reverts to being muted.
The Level Control for the strip is an attenuation
control that can also provide up to +12dB of gain.
0db is the unity gain setting. You can also type
numeric values into the displays to set the level.
At the very bottom is the Scribble Strip text area,
into which you can type any short piece of text,
thus naming the strip, i.e. “vocals”, “bass”,
“drums” and so on.