MOTU Track16 - Desktop Studio FireWire/USB 2.0 Interface - Manual (Page 57)

CHAPTER
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9
CueMix FX
OVERVIEW
CueMix FX is a cross-platform software
application that provides graphic, on-screen
control for the Track16’s flexible CueMix FX
on-board mixer and effects processing.
CueMix FX also provides many advanced audio
analysis tools, including a tuner and oscilloscope.
CueMix FX can be used independently of host
audio software, or together with it. CueMix
dovetails with the direct monitoring features of
your host audio software, allowing you to
seemlessly mix in both environments.
A 16-bus mixer with EQ, compression and reverb. . . . 57
Advantages over host-based mixing and processing 58
Opening CueMix FX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
CueMix FX basic operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
The Mixes tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
The Inputs tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
The Outputs tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
The channel settings section. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Output volume controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
DSP meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Solo light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Talkback and listenback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Edit menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Devices menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
FFT and Spectrogram display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
X-Y Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Phase Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Configurations menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Talkback menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Phones menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Control Surfaces menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
A 16-BUS MIXER WITH EQ, COMPRESSION
AND REVERB
All Track16 inputs can be routed to the on-board
CueMix FX 16-bus (8 stereo bus) digital mixer
driven by hardware-based DSP with 32-bit floating
point precision.
The CueMix FX mixer allows you to apply no-
latency effects processing to inputs, outputs or
busses directly in the Track16 hardware,
independent of the computer. Effects can even be
applied when the Track16 is operating stand-alone
(without a computer). Input signals to the
computer can be recorded wet, dry, or dry with a
wet monitor mix (for musicians during recording,
for example). Effects include:
■
Classic Reverb with tail lengths up to 60 seconds
■
7-band parametric EQ modeled after British
analog console EQs
■ A standard compressor with conventional
threshold/ratio/attack/release/gain controls
■ The Leveler™, an accurate model of the
legendary LA-2A optical compressor, which
provides vintage, musical automatic gain control
The Track16’s flexible effects architecture allows
you to apply EQ and compression on every input
and output (a total of 32 channels), with enough
DSP resources for at least one band of parametric
EQ and compression on every channel at 48 kHz.
DSP resources are allocated dynamically and a
DSP meter in the CueMix FX software allows you
to keep tabs on the Track16’s processing resources.
Each input, output and mix bus provides a send to
the Classic Reverb processor, which then feeds
reverb returns to mix busses and outputs.