Mixer Pane - Apogee Symphony 32 User Manual

Symphony 32 PCI card – User's Guide
Maestro Mixer Window

Mixer Pane

As described in the previous section, the Maestro mixer serves to blend hardware inputs with software out-
puts (playback from your Mac), and route the mix directly to hardware outputs, as depicted below.
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Mixer Select (A-B) – This drop down menu selects between the two available mixers per Symphony 32
card.
2 Input Channels – Hardware inputs of the selected interface (under the Interface menu) are the source
for the Maestro mixer inputs.
3 Pan – This slider pans the input signal between the left and right channels of the Maestro mixer output.
4 Pan Value Window – The pan value (where full left is designated <64, center is <0> and full right is 64>)
is displayed in this window.
5 Level Fader – This slider sets the level at which the input signal is mixed to the Maestro mixer output.
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Level Value Window – The Level value (between "Muted" and +6) is displayed in this window.
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Meter – This bargraph style meter displays the pre-fader input level.
8 Mute – This button mutes the input channel.
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Solo – This button solos the input channel, thereby muting all channels whose Solo buttons are not en-
gaged.
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From Mac – This stereo input channel provides level control, metering and mute/solo functions for a play-
back signal from the software application. Match the software application's mixer output and the From
Mac drop down menu selection. In most cases the software mixer output and From Mac are both set to
outputs 1-2.
11 To Hardware – This stereo output channel provides a level fader, metering and a routing drop down
menu for controlling the stereo output of the Maestro mixer. Select the hardware output to which the Mae-
stro mixer output should be routed. In most cases To Hardware is set to hardware outputs 1-2.
When To Hardware is set to None, the Maestro mixer is removed from the signal path, and the connec-
tion between the software and hardware output is determined in the Output routing pane.
When To Hardware is set to any hardware output (i.e any other setting), the source for that pair of hard-
ware outputs is now the Maestro mixer output; the previous routing is interrupted. This is indicated on the
Output pane's Matrix column, which automatically changes to Mixer Out for that pair of hardware outputs.
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