Mackie Digital 8 BUS Owner's Manual page 7

Preface
T
he Mackie Digital 8•Bus is an amazing digital audio tool. Its flexibility, depth, and creative pizazz
provides the engineer/artist with nearly limitless freedom to produce top quality work.
The D8B Version 3.0 upgrade offers a host of new features that can make your mixes sound better and
speed your workflow. Here's a list of the newest features of the Mackie OS Version 3.0.
WHAT'S NEW WITH 3.0
• Third-party plug-ins via the Mackie UFX card
• Enhanced dynamics
• Input keying and EQ filter
• Soft knee compression toggle
• 48-channel overview screen
• 999 levels of Undo
• Automation Cut, Copy, and Paste
• 24-bit Alt I/O
• Advanced Mix Editor features including:
New view-sizing arrows
°
Auto-loop SMPTE time code boxes
°
° Loop-in/loop-out and Locate markers in the
time bar
Contextual right mouse click for track
°
parameters and time bars
Event Automation Track
°
• Enhanced Surround Sound mixing environment
with:
Depth of Center Control
°
° Surround LFE Gain Control for each channel
Surround-corrected bus/track assignment
°
Surround Front-to-Rear Pan Control via
°
control surface or MIDI
Surround GUI update—new 72-channel
°
overview
• Triumphant Return of the Desktop—drag and
drop file management between File windows
• Enhanced, flexible MIDI I/O mapping for all
channel strip and master section parameters
• Assignable MIDI commands on transport (REW,
FF, STOP, PLAY, REC) and on the D8B master
control section
• Insert and patch point feature on channels—
source either plug-ins, 8 aux sends, 8 buses, or 72
channels (pre-DSP only)
• 24-bit plug-in inserts across Main L/R buses
• Time offset (delay) on each channel 1-48 with 255
samples
• Channel Layout assigns channel strips in various
orders
• Non-destructive Ungrouping
• Optional fader control of level to tape—direct out
signal follows the source fader channel
• Multiple direct outs per channel
• Snapshot Library
• Pre/Post assignment of each aux send on each
channel
• Improved BBT resolution and clocking accuracy
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