Management Of The M-48 Live Personal Mixer; What Is The M-48 Live Personal Mixer - Roland M-480 Owner's Manual

Management of the M-48 live personal mixer

What is the M-48 live personal mixer?

The M-48 is a live personal mixer that allows each musician to
create their own monitor mix. By unifying the professional
monitor mix created by the mixing engineer with the personal
mix created by each musician, the M-48 provides a monitoring
environment that's ideal for the musician.
fig.M48_Mix1.eps
40-channel
Digital Source
from REAC
LIVE PERSONAL MIXER
M-48
The M-48 provides a REAC port that is able to receive up to 40
channels of digital audio via REAC. The digital audio sources are
mixed by the internal 40-channel mixer for monitoring via
headphones or monitor speakers.
Settings and operations for the
40-channel mixer
fig.M48_Mix2.eps
Settings by the mixing engineer
1
Source level/pan settings
1 2 40
AUX AUX AUX
PAN PAN PAN
LEVEL LEVEL LEVEL
(Control from M-480)
40-channel mixer
Source
SIG
Level
REAC
EQ
SOURCE 1 SOLO
SOURCE 2
Group Group Group
Solo EQ Volume
SOURCE 40
3
Group mix
Operations performed by the musician
170
Line out
Phones
2
Source assign settings
Group
1 2 3 4 16
1
2
3
4
40
MAIN AUX REVERB
L R L R
Source Source
Pan Aux
PAN
LEVEL
AUX
Group SW
Pan
REVERB
SEND
Group
Reverb Send
L R L R
MAIN AUX REVERB
The sources 1–40 being input via REAC are mixed by the M-48's
40-channel mixer. Settings and operation of the 40-channel
mixer are shared between the mixing engineer and the musician.
The 40 digital audio source channels being input via REAC to the M-
48 are referred to as sources 1–40.
Settings by the mixing engineer
These settings are made by the mixing engineer from the M-480.
1 Source level/pan settings
These settings specify the LEVEL, PAN, and AUX switch
settings for sources 1–40 (p. 178).
2 Source assign settings
These settings assign sources 1–40 to sixteen groups for
operation on the M-48 (p. 181).
Settings by the musician
These operations are performed by the musician on the M-48
unit.
3 Group mix
VOLUME, PAN, REVERB SEND, and 3-BAND EQ can be
adjusted for each group created by the source assignment
settings.
The group mix can also be viewed and edited from the
(p. 182).
Two sets of outputs
fig.M48_OutDgm.eps
AMBIENT
MIC
AMBIENT
MIC
A/D
MIN MAX
AUX IN
AUX IN
A/D
MIN MAX
MAIN AUX REVERB
L R L R
BASS TREBLE
- + - +
REVERB UNIT
REVERB
PHONES L
PHONES R
MAIN L
SOURCE
MAIN R
SELECT
AUX L
AUX R
(Control from M-480)
L R L R
MAIN AUX REVERB
The M-48 provides two sets of output: PHONES and LINE OUT.
4 PHONES
REVERB, AMBIENT MIC, and AUX IN are mixed into the MAIN
bus, then BASS, TREBLE, and LIMITER are applied to the mix
which is then output from these ports. This is used for
headphones or in-ear monitoring.
M-480
4
PHONES
PHONES OUT
METER
GAIN REDUCTION
ATT
LIMITER VOLUME
MAX 0dB
D/A
MUTE
OFF MAX MIN MAX
5
LINE OUT
LINE OUT
VOLUME
D/A
LOW PASS MUTE MONO
MIN MAX
(Control from M-480)
1
2
L / R
REC