Solid State Logic Soundscape Mixer Manual de usuario

soundscape mixer DSP-Powered Mixing Software for PC based Audio Workstations Reference Guide Version 4.3 English Version

Soundscape Mixpander Page 10 of 109 DSP resources and Mixer Auto Routing Assigning a mixer column to a DSP NOTE:Thissectionassumes that M

Soundscape Mixpander Page 100 of 109 Error status indications Processing Overrun (PO) When the Mixer’s DSP power requirement exceeds available

Soundscape Mixpander Page 101 of 109 Index 4 4 in - stereo out mixer columns ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 102 of 109 D Delete tool ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 103 of 109 H Hardware installation problems ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 104 of 109 Additional information regarding VST/VSTi plug-in compatibility ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 105 of 109 Sample delay line ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 106 of 109 P Pan ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 107 of 109 Save Settings ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 108 of 109 Error status ...

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Soundscape Mixpander Page 11 of 109 Mixer Auto Routing Mixer auto routing can be enabled or disabled by respectively ticking or unticking the “

Soundscape Mixpander Page 12 of 109 Basic mixer column structure This diagram shows signal routing through a stereo input mixer column that use

Soundscape Mixpander Page 13 of 109 Viewing the Mixer The SSL Soundscape Mixer can be displayed in either of two modes: full column size or sma

Soundscape Mixpander Page 14 of 109 NOTE:OnceaMixerhasbeenloaded,itremainsactiveevenifthewindowisclosed.The Mixer contains 12

Soundscape Mixpander Page 15 of 109 an EQ in after the send. If you need one auxiliary send in a mixer column and eight in another column, just

Soundscape Mixpander Page 16 of 109 Output pan and balance controls Output pan and balance sliders can be clicked and dragged with the mouse.

Soundscape Mixpander Page 17 of 109 Faders Whenever several output faders are assigned to the same fader and mute group, clickin

Soundscape Mixpander Page 18 of 109 Right-clicking an inactive solo button solos the corresponding output and all the outputs that have the same

Soundscape Mixpander Page 19 of 109 Creating/Editing a Mixer To create a Mixer, select “New” under the File menu. If a Mixer is already open, y

Soundscape Mixpander Page 2 of 109 Table 0f Contents 1. Introduction ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 20 of 109 NOTE:Whenthemousepointerisplacedonatoolicon,atooltipisshownnearthemousepointerand a des

Soundscape Mixpander Page 21 of 109 Releasing the mouse button when the outline appears as a dashed line will undock the Toolbar:

Soundscape Mixpander Page 22 of 109 To dock the Toolbar again, drag the Toolbar window back to the top, bottom, right side or left side of the m

Soundscape Mixpander Page 23 of 109 Basic principles: mixer element inputs/outputs, connecting mixer elements Each mixer element has at least o

Soundscape Mixpander Page 24 of 109 Fixed inputs and outputs always connect to an output or input with a matching number. For instance, an eleme

Soundscape Mixpander Page 25 of 109 It is important to take account of this when building a Mixer, because the two configurations shown above wo

Soundscape Mixpander Page 26 of 109 Assignable inputs/outputs The assignable inputs and outputs connect mixer elements across mixer columns, to

Soundscape Mixpander Page 27 of 109 Recorder inputs/outputs The recorder inputs and outputs are specific to the track insert elements. They are

Soundscape Mixpander Page 28 of 109 The recorder inputs allow audio data to be received from the recording application for playback. The diagram

Soundscape Mixpander Page 29 of 109 Mixer column input/output configurations When you select the Create tool and click in an empty mixer column

Soundscape Mixpander Page 3 of 109 Placing mixer elements in the mixer column ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 30 of 109 For mono in‐stereo out, the input is mono, but the input signal needs to reach both inputs of a stereo o

Soundscape Mixpander Page 31 of 109 For stereo in‐mono out, only the left side of the stereo input will be connected to the mixer column’s

Soundscape Mixpander Page 32 of 109 For stereoin‐monotostereo out, only the left side of the stereo input is connected through the mixer c

Soundscape Mixpander Page 33 of 109 4in‐stereooutmixercolumns This configuration would be used for Dolby Surround encoding, which will be

Soundscape Mixpander Page 34 of 109 Mixercolumninput/outputconfigurationsforsurroundmixing For mono in‐mono to LRCS out, the signal

Soundscape Mixpander Page 35 of 109 The mono in‐mono to 5.1 out configuration is similar to the mono in‐mono to LRCS out configurat

Soundscape Mixpander Page 36 of 109 For mixer columns with a mono or stereo to LRCS or 5.1 output, double-clicking the output element just next

Soundscape Mixpander Page 37 of 109 The Front, Rear and F/R (Front/Rear) divergence controls allow the sound to blend gradually, respectively be

Soundscape Mixpander Page 38 of 109 – Four "L <-> R Pan Relation mode" buttons allow the pan dot positions to be controlled inde

Soundscape Mixpander Page 39 of 109 NOTE: The Dolby Surround process uses matrix encoding to combine

Soundscape Mixpander Page 4 of 109 Control/Edit toggle [E] ...

Soundscape Mixpander Page 40 of 109 Othermixercolumninput/outputconfigurations In addition to all the above, mixer column can also be creat

Soundscape Mixpander Page 41 of 109 NOTE: The front panel routing matrix of the XLogic Alpha‐Link unit is deactivated when theAlp

Soundscape Mixpander Page 42 of 109 Understanding the signal path The following diagram shows an exploded view of a possible routing which incl

Soundscape Mixpander Page 43 of 109 MULTI FXOut 15-16 U1 In 15/16 U1Muted inputs Muted inputsSequencer tracks 1

Soundscape Mixpander Page 44 of 109 Step by step mixer column To fully understand the mixer creation process, it can be useful to think of a pa

Soundscape Mixpander Page 45 of 109 3. Click in a vertical mixer column slot with the Create tool, hold the mouse button down, select the requir

Soundscape Mixpander Page 46 of 109 5. Still using the Create tool, click anywhere within the blank area of the mixer column. A menu will appear

Soundscape Mixpander Page 47 of 109 6. We had set out to create a track insert assigned to streams 9-10. Therefore, we need to modify the track

Soundscape Mixpander Page 48 of 109 7. Next, select the Create tool again, click in the blank area of the mixer column under the track insert.

Soundscape Mixpander Page 49 of 109 8. The required mixer column has now been created. While you are in Mixer Edit mode, please take some time t

Soundscape Mixpander Page 5 of 109 1. Introduction How to use the manuals The SSL Soundscape product range has been designed from the ground

Soundscape Mixpander Page 50 of 109 back (i.e., if an audio sequencer records from this particular track insert, it will record the equalized si

Soundscape Mixpander Page 51 of 109 down increases or decreases the value continuously. The other mouse button can then be held down as well to

Soundscape Mixpander Page 52 of 109 Clicking a track insert element with the I/O and DSP Assign tool (in Mixer Edit mode) calls up a menu which

Soundscape Mixpander Page 53 of 109 Sends Several types of send elements are available: mono, stereo (with a balance control), mono to stereo (

Soundscape Mixpander Page 54 of 109 EQ 2-band The 2-band EQs are fully parametric, allowing band pass or notch filters with variable Q (bandwid

Soundscape Mixpander Page 55 of 109 Double-clicking an EQ 2-band element opens the following window: The response of the EQ is

Soundscape Mixpander Page 56 of 109 Double-clicking the multi EQ element will open the following window, where all the parameters can be edited

Soundscape Mixpander Page 57 of 109 mouse pointer is held on one of the buttons, a banner will also appear displaying the corresponding curve ty

Soundscape Mixpander Page 58 of 109 The EQ curve can also be edited directly in the curve display: − The center frequency for each EQ band is r

Soundscape Mixpander Page 59 of 109 The signal can be delayed by up to 255 samples. The value can be edited directly in the value box using the

Soundscape Mixpander Page 6 of 109 configuration is different, because you are using a different version of Windows, because you are using diffe

Soundscape Mixpander Page 60 of 109 The various controls and their operation have been described in the “Mixer controls overview”, “Output pan a

Soundscape Mixpander Page 61 of 109 MS Decoder NOTE: The MS (“mid‐side”) recording technique consists of combining (matrixing) two s

Soundscape Mixpander Page 62 of 109 The gain and width parameters for the MS signal can be adjusted directly in the mixer column using the mouse

Soundscape Mixpander Page 63 of 109 The editable parameters are as follows: Inputsection – Lock Mid button: If the Lock Mid mode is activated

Soundscape Mixpander Page 64 of 109 – Switch Outputs button: Interchanges the output channels. – Toggle Mid On/Off button: Clicking

Soundscape Mixpander Page 65 of 109 Graphicaldisplay The display provides a visual representation of the perceived soundfield, as defined and

Soundscape Mixpander Page 66 of 109 BassShelvingsection – Gain M (-6.0, 6.0 dB): Bass shelving gain setting of the mid MS matrix input signa

Soundscape Mixpander Page 67 of 109 SDX100 compressor/expander/noise gate, the Saturated Fat distortion and cabinet modelling processor and Fina

Soundscape Mixpander Page 68 of 109 column will use the same streams. Available streams are assigned automatically to VST plug-ins, taking into

Soundscape Mixpander Page 69 of 109 Operationally, VST plug-ins within the SSL Soundscape Mixer generally behave in a similar fashion to Soundsc

Soundscape Mixpander Page 7 of 109 2. Mixer The SSL Soundscape Mixer runs on the Motorola DSP chips of the SSL Soundscape Mixpander card. The

Soundscape Mixpander Page 70 of 109 If a processing overload occurs in the host PC, a warning message is displayed, the VST mixer elements turn

Soundscape Mixpander Page 71 of 109 VSTi mixer elements Everything written in the previous section about VST plug-ins also applies to VSTi (VST

Soundscape Mixpander Page 72 of 109 Additional information regarding VST/VSTi plug-in compatibility A command line switch is needed to enable c

Soundscape Mixpander Page 73 of 109 NOTE:Usingthiscommand lineswitchmayslowdownthe performanceoftheConsole Managerapplication,al

Soundscape Mixpander Page 74 of 109 3. Control Surfaces and Automation The SSL Soundscape Mixer can be controlled from a hardware control surf

Soundscape Mixpander Page 75 of 109 …will call up a window where all the automatable controls for that element are listed: The au

Soundscape Mixpander Page 76 of 109 4. Status Bar The Status Bar is located at the bottom of the SSL Soundscape Mixer window. It can be shown

Soundscape Mixpander Page 77 of 109 5. File Menu New [Ctrl]+[N] Clicking “New”. will create a new, empty Mixer, as described i

Soundscape Mixpander Page 78 of 109 Open [Ctrl]+[O] Clicking “Open” calls up a standard Windows dialog box which can be used to open a mixer

Soundscape Mixpander Page 79 of 109 If the Mixer you are opening has one or more columns which refer to units that are not available (e.g., card

Soundscape Mixpander Page 8 of 109 You can load different mixers to experiment with by clicking “Open” under the File menu. A standard Windows d

Soundscape Mixpander Page 80 of 109 In the bottom section of the dialog box you can specify what action should be taken the next time this situa

Soundscape Mixpander Page 81 of 109 Save As Clicking “Save As” calls up a standard Windows dialog box where the Mixer can be named or renamed

Soundscape Mixpander Page 82 of 109 Close Clicking “Close” closes the SSL Soundscape Mixer window. However, the Mixer remains active and the

Soundscape Mixpander Page 83 of 109 6. View Menu Toolbar Ticking or unticking this item determines whether the Toolbar will be

Soundscape Mixpander Page 84 of 109 Status Bar Ticking or unticking this item determines whether the Status Bar placed at the bottom of the S

Soundscape Mixpander Page 85 of 109 If the “Use hierarchical mixer element selection menu” option is enabled (ticked), the menu is broken down i

Soundscape Mixpander Page 86 of 109 Error status The “Clear Error Status”, “Watch for Errors” and “Keep Error Status until Clear” items of the

Soundscape Mixpander Page 87 of 109 7. Edit Menu Tool selection The first section of the Edit menu lists the editing tools, and c

Soundscape Mixpander Page 88 of 109 8. Settings Menu NOTE:SomeoptionsthatappearintheSettingsmenuapplytotheSSL

Soundscape Mixpander Page 89 of 109 When the mouse pointer is on “Master Device” a submenu listing the hardware units (SSL Soundscape audio card

Soundscape Mixpander Page 9 of 109 output to a sequencer track, and then mute the real-time effect to save processing power for other purposes.

Soundscape Mixpander Page 90 of 109 When AES/EBU-A 1-2, AES/EBU-A 3-4, AES/EBU-A 5-6 or AES/EBU-A 7-8 is selected, the SSL Soundscape hardware i

Soundscape Mixpander Page 91 of 109 Synchronization This option is not applicable to the SSL Soundscape Mixpander hardware. Specific hardwar

Soundscape Mixpander Page 92 of 109 Sample Rate When the mouse pointer is on “Sample Rate”, a submenu appears that lets you sele

Soundscape Mixpander Page 93 of 109 some Soundscape format DSP-powered plug-in demos (mentioned in the “Main Mixer” line if installed) and the V

Soundscape Mixpander Page 94 of 109 When all the required passwords have been entered, click the “Save” button to enable them and exit the windo

Soundscape Mixpander Page 95 of 109 Native mixer elements Sample Buffer Size Clicking this item calls up a dialog box which can be used to set

Soundscape Mixpander Page 96 of 109 Auto Route Mixer Ticking or unticking this item respectively enables or disables the Mixer Auto Routing fu

Soundscape Mixpander Page 97 of 109 9. Help Menu Clicking “About SSL Soundscape Mixer” under the Help menu opens the “About SSL Soundscape

Soundscape Mixpander Page 98 of 109 10. Troubleshooting Hardware installation problems Several problems relating to the installation of PCI c

Soundscape Mixpander Page 99 of 109 High speed SCSI cards High performance SCSI cards like the Adaptec AHA-2940UW or other Ultra-Wide SCSI hos