PreSonus FireStudio Project - Manual (Page 25)

CONTROLS AND CONNECTIONS
22 | PreSonus 2009
3.1 UNIVERSAL CONTROL AND THE FIRESTUDIO PROJECT
Like all members of the FireStudio family of interfaces, the FireStudio Project 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 S/PDIF). This application also allows you to daisy-chain FireStudio-family interfaces. The
FireStudio Project can be connected to up to three 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
Project is the FireStudio Project 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 Project, 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 Project is disconnected or not installed and blue when
the FireStudio Project 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.