PreSonus FireStudio Lightpipe - Manual (Page 23)

CONTROLS & CONNECTIONS
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3.1 UNIVERSAL CONTROL AND THE FIRESTUDIO LIGHTPIPE
Like all members of the FireStudio family of interfaces, the FireStudio Lightpipe is compatible with Universal
Control. Universal Control is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use control-panel application for creating mulitple
mixes from your input and output signals for two of your FireStudio Lightpipe’s output pairs (Main and
Headphone). This application also allows you to daisy-chain FireStudio-family interfaces. The FireStudio
Lightpipe can be connected to up to 3 other FireStudio-family devices for a total of up to 52 inputs and outputs.
Universal Control consists of the Launch window and the Device window. In the Launch window, you can set
basic parameters such as sample rate, clock source, and buffer size. The Device window of the FireStudio
Lightpipe is the FireStudio Lightpipe Mixer. The Mixer section of the Universal Control Panel was designed to
look and feel like a hardware mixer, so most of the features may already be familiar to you. From this mixer,
you can create a zero-latency mix for each output and can route playback streams from your host application.
3.1.1 Universal Control Application Icon
If you are using Microsoft Windows, once you have successfully installed your
FireStudio Lightpipe, the Universal Control will be available from the
Notification Area of your taskbar (typically at the bottom right corner of your
screen, near the clock).
The Universal Control icon is red when your FireStudio Lightpipe is disconnected or not installed and blue
when the FireStudio Lightpipe is connected and properly installed.
Open the Universal Control by double-clicking the blue Universal Control icon or by right-clicking the icon
and selecting “Open PreSonus Universal Control.”
Right-click the Universal Control icon and select “Quit” to exit the Universal Control application and remove
it from your taskbar. The Universal Control application can also be accessed from the PreSonus folder in the
Start Menu.
Mac OS X users will find the Universal Control application in the Applications folder. We
recommend that you move it to your Dock for easy access.