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4 – Control Surface Modes and Operation
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4.2.5 Banking
You can use the h BANK y keys to shift through the
four banks of controls. As mentioned earlier, only the
channel strip controls – faders, channel MUTE, SOLO
and SEL keys, and channel encoders – are bankable. All
other surface controls are unaffected by the banking
commands.
For specific information on the FW-1884’s MIDI Con-
trol Protocol, refer to section 5.1.3, “MIDI PRO-
GRAMMING TAB” and the documentation supplied
on the CD-ROM.
“Hidden” functions
These functions available in MIDI Control mode are
not marked on the control surface.
SHIFT+Encoder
Fine (not coarse) control of MIDI controller output
value
SHIFT+CTRL+F8
Reset the MIDI surface programming to default values
and write it to FLASH memory
4.3 Monitor Mix Mode – (General Notes)
The FW-1884 can be used as a stand-alone 18x2 mixer
in MON MIX mode. The primary benefit of MON
MIX mode is to provide a means of monitoring your
audio inputs in a zero-latency environment. By using
MON MIX mode to monitor the audio from your inputs along with the audio return from your DAW
application, it is possible to overdub tracks to your
DAW software with none of the audio processing
delays inherent in DAW applications.
4.3.1 Audio I/O and the Monitor Mixer
In MON MIX mode, there are three banks which cor-
respond to the three types of audio inputs available on
the FW-1884. The three banks are labeled above the
BANK switches as follows:
• ANLG – Controls the monitor levels of the eight
analog inputs
• ADAT – Controls the monitor levels of the eight
ADAT inputs
• D IN – Controls the monitor levels of the S/PDIF
digital inputs
Note that in the third, or D IN bank, channels 3-8 are
inactive.
It is important to understand that in MON MIX
mode, the FW-1884’s channel strips are addressing the
monitor levels of the FW-1884’s 18 inputs. While you
will still hear the audio return from your DAW com-
puter, and the FW-1884’s transport controls will still
control your DAW’s transports, moving the faders will
have no effect on your DAW’s internal (software)
mixer.
Another important point to note is that, in MON MIX
mode, the faders do not affect the levels the inputs sent
to your DAW. The levels to the DAW inputs from ana-
log inputs 1-8 (Bank 1) are controlled solely by their
respective TRIM POTS. The eight ADAT inputs
(Bank 2) and the two digital inputs (Bank 3) are passed
to your DAW application at unity gain; their level must
be regulated at the digital source.