M-AUDIO Delta 410 - Manual (Page 43)

are all being input to the monitor mixer and their playback levels can
be controlled at the corresponding channels of the monitor mixer.
Open the Monitor Mixer page of the Delta Control Panel and adjust
the levels of the four channels according to your taste. You may also
experiment with the Mute and Solo controls while listening to the
playback. Note also that the mixer continues to monitor the guitar and
mic at analog inputs 1 & 2!
At this point, you should be able to see how this multi-tracking session is
developing. As we add more tracks within our music software, we set them to the
next pair of Delta software outputs (3/4, then 5/6…), and bring up the faders of
those software inputs in the monitor mixer (WavOut 3/4, WavOut 5/6…). We
continually monitor from the Delta hardware outs 1 & 2, via the ‘Mon. Mixer’
setting as the monitor ‘source’ in the Patchbay/Router page, and adjusting our
mix of the software outputs (and the way we monitor our guitar and vocal at the
inputs) via the Monitor Mixer settings.
Notice that if we continue to overdub past track 8, we run out of WavOut devices
to assign to. In this case, you may want to do some of your level mixing within
the software application if it supports it. Most applications will allow you to
assign more than one track to an output device and then set the relative levels of
the tracks within the software, letting the software do the mixing. In this example
you could have assigned all of the playback tracks to "WavOut 1/2" and let the
software handle the mix.
Typical Setup #2
Let’s look at a setup that involves a typical transfer of information from DAT to
computer and back to DAT. Here, we’ll be using the Delta 410’s S/PDIF I/O,
plus one of the analog output stereo pairs.
NOTE: Because improper connections can potentially make very
loud noises, it’s a good idea to have monitor levels down while
hooking up audio equipment -- you may even choose to turn your
computer off before making the connections.
In this example, we will connect a DAT to the Delta 410 PCI Host card using
coaxial S/PDIF cables (75-ohm impedance RCA-to-RCA). We’ll also connect
the 410’s analog outputs to a sound system for monitoring purposes. A setup like
this might be used to transfer a number of mixes from a DAT into an audio
editing program, performing the appropriate edits, and then transferring the
edited material back to DAT.
The example below may at first look long and laborious, but you will find that
most of the settings are factory defaults and will rarely need to be modified.
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