MACKIE Digital Mixers - Manual (Page 5)

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User’s Guide
Note: Note: Note: Note: Note: It is recommended that you increase the D8B’s memory if you install
more than one UFX card. Memory upgrade instructions are supplied with each
card.
About the D8B UFX Card
The UFX card provides robust processing power for computation-
heavy plug-ins. The UFX card is a 4-in/4-out architecture, which
means it can support four mono, two mono and one stereo, or
two stereo sends simultaneously. Up to four UFX cards can be
installed in the D8B, allowing up to sixteen simultaneous single-
channel effects, eight stereo plug-ins, or combinations thereof.
About Time Pak
Each Time Pak plug-in module uses one half of a UFX card (i.e.
two audio inputs and two audio outputs). It can be routed as an
“insert” or “auxiliary” connection, which affects the final audio
output (see FX Routing on page 27) in mono, stereo or surround
panning applications (using surround bus assignments). Each of
the two input signals can have up to 8 effects working on it at a
time. The main Time Pak display uses a series of red and green
colored balls (8 left effects and 8 right effects) to represent a
total of sixteen mono or 8 fully functional stereo nodes.
You can drag and drop each node in real time to adjust the time
(vertical movement) and pan (horizontal movement), or link
nodes together in stereo as one moveable group. Each node
offers individual control of volume, regen, pan modulation, time
modulation, and high and low pass filtering, that can be added to
the mix for a vast array of sounds. Apply Phase Invert to the
Level and Regen of selected effects to create just the right feel.
Use the global controls including Tempo, Effect Input level, Dry,
Memory A and B, and Attack, as comparative editing references.
Time Pak will let you save your edits as presets and toggle
between them.
As with all of the D8B plug-ins, Time Pak lets you automate
every parameter and save it all as part of your D8B session.