Metric Halo 2882 operating guide - Manual (Page 48)

Mobile I/O User’s Guide
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M IXER M ASTER M UTE
Each mix bus has a master mute button above the master fader that allows
you to mute the output of that mixer. This mute is interpolated.
WIDE M IXERS
As was described before, the integrated mixers in Mobile I/O are WIDE –
that is they allow you to mix every available input channel (both hardware
channels and FireWire channels) together. In the widest case, the mixer will
have 36 faders to allow you to control the gains for all of the input channels.
The MIO console window is only wide enough to accommodate 18 faders
plus the Master fader. If you have enabled more channels than will fit in the
window, the MIO console will automatically display a scrollbar at the bot-
tom of the Mixer pane. Use this scrollbar to control which faders are visible
at any given time. The width of the scrollbar indicator shows you how many
of the enabled channels are visible at any given time. The scrollbar will auto-
matically be hidden if you reduce the number of inputs to the mixer below
19 channels or if you switch to a different mixer that has less than 19 chan-
nels enabled.
TIP: Mobile I/O’s support of near-zero latency mixing of every channel
opens up a huge variety of applications that cannot be achieved with stan-
dard interfaces or, at the very least, require external gear or major
work-arounds to accomplish. Some examples are:
1. Stem-based mixing.
• In this mixing technique, you mix disparate elements of the program to
separate sub-mixes called stems. You might mix drums to one stem,
instruments to another, and vocals to a third. Then the relative balances of
the mix can be addressed later in a macroscopic way (during mastering,
for example). This also enables remixing the project easily without having
to go back to the multi-track master. Since you will be creating stems on
individual busses in the DAW, you need to sum the stems for monitoring.
This is easily accomplished with Mobile I/O’s mixer.
2. Monitoring mixed-in effects sends when the external effects are
unavailable.
• This is Mobile I/O, right? You may find that you want to continue editing
or mixing while you are away from the studio. You can use the WIDE