Settings; Routing - TerraTec EWS88 MT Manual

Settings.

The settings window allows you to adjust a number of hardware settings, drivers and in
response to our customer demands – the color scheme.

Routing.

Signal routing is the most interesting feature in the settings window. Here you determine
which signal is routed to the output and whether it is muted, or not. (All signals are routed
through the digital mixer , but need not necessarily be routed through the master output.)
and want to monitor it directly .In this mode, the WavePlay-becomes inaudible.
To summarize this section for the "musician experienced with mixing desks and recorders":
The signal routings described in this section are akin to switching between tape and line input
on a mixing desk. Choosing "WavePlay --> Out x/y" means, you'll hear the signal "off tape" (in
the case off the sequencer). Choosing "In --> output x/y" you'll hear the incoming signal.
As a sound card-user, you will certainly ask yourself: "What about the volume control?!". With
Windows you are used to adjusting the volume-levels within the Windows mixer. This is
completely sufficient when you are mixing different signals, i.e. (Wavetable-)Synth, CD input,
line and microphone input, etc. This, however, is a real recording-system, which is to process
signals from different programs and route them without signal-degradation to the output
section. Basically: The volume levels should be set in the respective programs themselves.
Imagine your sequencer is directly connected to the outputs of your EWS88 – if you have ever
used an external mixing desk, you would appreciate not having to adjust the volume-levels at
three different points (in the audio-software, on the sound card mixer and the external mixing
desk).
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Usually, you will send an audio-signal (or multiple
signals) from a certain audio program. This will be
done by the windows drivers described as
WavePlay-1/2, 3/4, 5/6, 7/8 and S/PDIF. Here you
can determine, that a signal, which is routed
through 3/4 is also audible through 3/4.
Alternatively, it is possible to rout an incoming
signal (a signal not from a WavePlay-driver)
directly to an output. This is especially useful
when you record a signal from your sequencer
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