MOTU 828x 28x30 Audio Interface with ThunderTechnology - Manual (Page 69)

CHAPTER
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9
CueMix FX
OVERVIEW
CueMix FX is a cross-platform software
application that provides graphic, on-screen
control for the 828x’s flexible CueMix FX on-board
mixer and effects processing.
CueMix FX also provides many advanced audio
analysis tools, including a tuner and oscilloscope.
CueMix FX can be used independently of any host
audio software, or together with it. CueMix
dovetails with the direct monitoring features of
your host audio software, allowing you to
seemlessly mix in both environments.
A 16-bus mixer with EQ, compression and reverb. . . . 69
Advantages over host-based mixing and processing 70
Opening CueMix FX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
CueMix FX basic operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
The Mixes tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
The Inputs tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
The Outputs tab . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Channel Settings section . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The Monitor Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
DSP meter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Solo light . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Talkback and listenback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
Shortcuts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
File menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Edit menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Devices menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
FFT and Spectrogram display. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Oscilloscope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
X-Y Plot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Phase Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Tuner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Configurations menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Talkback menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Phones menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Control Surfaces menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
A 16-BUS MIXER WITH EQ, COMPRESSION
AND REVERB
All 828x inputs can be routed to the on-board
CueMix FX 16-bus (8 stereo bus) digital mixer
driven by hardware-based DSP with 32-bit floating
point precision.
The CueMix FX mixer allows you to apply no-
latency effects processing to inputs, outputs or
busses directly in the 828x hardware, independent
of the computer. Effects can even be applied when
the 828x is operating stand-alone (without a
computer). Input signals to the computer can be
recorded wet, dry, or dry with a wet monitor mix
(for musicians during recording, for example).
Effects include:
■
Classic Reverb with tail lengths up to 60 seconds
■
7-band parametric EQ modeled after British
analog console EQs
■ A standard compressor with conventional
threshold/ratio/attack/release/gain controls
■ The Leveler™, an accurate model of the
legendary LA-2A optical compressor, which
provides vintage, musical automatic gain control
The 828x’s flexible effects architecture allows you to
apply EQ and compression on every input and
output (a total of 32 channels), with enough DSP
resources for at least one band of parametric EQ
and compression on every channel at 48 kHz. DSP
resources are allocated dynamically and a DSP
meter in the CueMix FX software allows you to
keep tabs on the 828x’s processing resources.
Each input, output and mix bus provides a send to
the Classic Reverb processor, which then feeds
reverb returns to mix busses and outputs.