Metric Halo 2882 operating guide - Manual (Page 53)

Mobile I/O User’s Guide
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As you can see from this schematic diagram of the mixer/router, the Mixer in
Mobile I/O is a fully cross-pointed matrix. While we are presenting the
mixer to you as a set of mono and stereo mixers, the actual underlying struc-
ture is a full matrix. This means that the mixer is ready for surround and
multi-channel matrix mixing today. The schematic provides an accurate rep-
resentation that shows the signal flow through the mixer and into the router
with all analog and digital gain points represented.
O UTPUT P ATCHBAY D ETAILS
The Output Patchbay allows you choose the signal sources to send to the
hardware outputs. You can feed any output from your choice of a mix bus, a
hardware input, or a FireWire input from the computer.
P ATCHBAY P OPUP C ONTROLS
The output patchbay is the set of popup menus on the left side of the panel.
Each popup menu corresponds to the hardware output that is labelling it.
The channel that you choose from the popup menu will drive the associated
hardware output.
Since the output patchbay is fully cross-pointed, you can easily construct
direct routes from hardware inputs to hardware outputs for stand-alone con-
verter operation, routes from ASIO (using the DAW channels) to the outputs
for direct dubbing and monitoring from the computer, and routes from the
mixer to hardware outputs for foldback, monitoring, and effects sends.
The output patchbay even lets you send the same channel to multiple out-
puts, which makes it really simple to create channel mults. You can use this
to:
• send multiple copies of an aux group to different effects devices
• manage monitoring on multiple monitor systems (big and small)
• monitor on analog outputs and record on digital outputs
• send the same monitor mix to multiple outputs for multiple performers
• record safety mixes on digital two-track recorders while multitrack
recording to the hard drive