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Universal Control

7.0 Software: Universal Control With VSL, Capture,
and Studio One Artist
You StudioLive 24.4.2 comes with a powerful software bundle
that provides you everything you need to record live shows or in
the studio; produce and mix an album; and even back up, restore,
and organize all your user Scenes and Presets on your mixer.
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Universal Control
The StudioLive 24.4.2 is compatible with the Universal Control application.
As with all FireStudio- and StudioLive-family interfaces, Universal Control
includes two windows: the Launcher window and the Device window.
For the StudioLive, the Device window is the Virtual StudioLive (VSL)
application. VSL provides bidirectional control of channel, subgroup,
and main-bus levels; Fat Channel parameters; aux mixes; effects; and
the Graphic EQs. It also provides a visual overview of your StudioLive
settings so that you can see, adjust, and organize them. VSL includes
a librarian, allowing you to easily manage your presets and Scenes.
Controlling your StudioLive with VSL is as easy as drag-and-drop. Load Fat
Channel presets and scenes by simply dragging them onto the channel or
mixer overview. You can load Fat Channel presets as a complete channel
strip or as individual gate, compressor, or EQ presets. Through VSL, you
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can back up all of the Scenes and presets stored on your StudioLive.
These stored settings can be loaded from disk or sent to, and stored
internally on, the StudioLive. You can even drag presets out of the
browser and email, IM, or disk-swap them with other StudioLive owners.
Since the control is bidirectional, fader moves and parameter
changes made on the StudioLive are reflected in VSL, as well.
So, for example, you can set up the StudioLive the way you
want it and then save your Scene or other presets in VSL.
As discussed in Section 6.4.2 VSL includes an auxiliary-inputs
router to allow you the freedom to choose which additional buses
to route to the eight stereo auxiliary FireWire sends. It also lets
you create a password for your StudioLive so that you can lock
out unauthorized users. (See Section 7.2.6 for details.) From the
Launcher window, you can set basic parameters such as buffer size
and sample rate. In addition, you can use the Launcher window
to configure your WDM outputs (PC only; see Section 6.4.4).
Note that the Meter Style and Meter Decay options in the Launcher window
are not active when only a StudioLive is connected to a computer.

7.1.1 Universal Control: Launch Window

Sample Rate Selector Changes StudioLive Sample Rate.
Set the sample rate to 44.1 or 48 kHz from the Launcher window when
your StudioLive is connected to a computer.
A higher sample rate will increase the fidelity of the
recording. It will also increase the file size and the amount
of system resources necessary to process the audio.
To ensure the safety of the audio equipment connected to it, the
StudioLive will mute all post-converter outputs for two seconds when
the sample rate is changed or when the mixer is connecting to a
computer. This includes the main and the control-room outputs, as well
as the aux and subgroup outputs. While this offers a good measure
of protection to your sound system, it could put the brakes on a live
show. Because of this, it very important that the sample rate be selected
and locked in prior to beginning any recording or performance.
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