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The bulk of what we have covered in this chapter is also to be found in the XGWorks user manual and addendum.
Please take some time out to read it, as XGWorks comes free with your SW1000XG it really is worth a look.
The Loopback Trick. (Nothing to do with Hubis BTW!)
One of the SW1000XG's coolest features is the internal audio loopback record option, discussed earlier. This allows
anything being played by the SW1000XG either MIDI or audio to be re-recorded back to a stereo wave file. The
principle behind this is that inside the SW1000XG is a tap off point from the digital mixer output that allows re-
recording of all data being played.
The usefulness of this is obvious, in that with effects busses limited (limited being said very tongue in cheek!) to 5
with EQ, you can with the loopback option add more effects than your SW1000XG actually has.
Should you have a set of audio tracks that you are happy with, and want to commit the effects send levels assigned
permanently to the tracks, then you can loopback re-record the audio and MIDI data back to a new stereo or multiple
sets of stereo tracks. Thus freeing up the effect processors to use on new tracks.
It also means that if you run out of polyphony with the SW1000XG, for MIDI work, then you can create a stereo wave
mix, totally in the digital domain of all your MIDI parts, and again free up all your synth engine and polyphony for new
MIDI tracks.
The best feature though is that, once your entire track is complete, and you want to make a stereo master of the
whole lot for pressing to CDR, all you need do is select SW1000 Wave #2 Record in your system setup. Select a new
stereo track, and then save this out as a wave file, which can be opened in any good CDR audio mastering software
such as EZ CD Creator by Adaptec or WaveLab by Steinberg for burning.
We shall cover this more in further chapters, but now onto the next chapter where we start to get into the nitty gritty of
the major sequencer applications.
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