Metric Halo 2882 operating guide - Manual (Page 44)

Mobile I/O User’s Guide
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The controls in the top half of the mixer panel are the same analog input
controls described in the section “Analog I/O View” on page 23. The bottom
half of the mixer panel provides a control surface for the multiple integrated
hardware mixers running on Mobile I/O. You access this panel by clicking
on the “Mixer” button of the view panel selector bar at the top of the con-
sole window.
M IXER C ONTROLS O VERVIEW
Each mixer has controls for Level (fader), Solo (button), and Mute (button) for
each channel. Each stereo mixer also includes a pan control (knob) for each
mono channel. For stereo inputs, such as the defaults of the digital inputs or
your DAW output, will not have a pan knob. Instead, the two individual
channels that make up the pair will be hard panned, and the fader meters
will appear as stero meters.
At the far right of each mixer surface is the Master Fader. This fader will be
Mono for Mono Mixers and Stereo for Stereo Mixers. Above the Master
Fader is a bus mute button that allows you to quickly mute the entire mixer.
Each mix bus can have up to 36 inputs assigned to it. All of the analog, digi-
tal, and ADAT hardware inputs are available in each mixer. You can also
assign any (or all) of the ASIO playback channels from your DAW to each
mixer. Since there are 18 hardware inputs and 18 FireWire return busses that
are routed from the ASIO driver on the host computer, you can mix up to 36
channels on each bus.
The default state of the hardware input channels in the mixers is faders at
unity, mutes on, solos off and center panned. The playback channels from
your DAW are unmuted in pairs per bus (e.g. DAW 1/2 will be unmuted on
Mix 1/2, DAW 3/4 will be unmuted on Mix 3/4, etc.)
M IXER P ANE T ABS
Use the tabs above the pan knobs to select the mixer you want to control.
Each tab represents a mixer you have configured in the routing panel. When
you click on a tab, the controls will be instantly updated to reflect the state
of the associated mixer. In this way you can quickly switch back and forth
between multiple independent mixes, each with a full mixing interface.