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Quick-Start Guide 4. DIGITAL CARD 6. FIREWIRE CARD This card provides eight channels of digital I/O in The FireWire card uses the IEEE-1394 protocol two formats; TDIF on a DB25 connector and ADAT for connecting digital devices. It currently provides optical on four TOSLINK connectors. 24 inputs and 24 outputs of digital audio at 48 kHz, and 8 inputs and 8 outputs at 96 kHz (with room for At 44.1/48 kHz sample rates, each optical improvement as driver technology improves). It sup- TOSLINK co
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You can turn MTC on and off in the Sync Card 8. SYNC CARD setup window (Windows > I/O Confi guration and The Sync card provides the digital word clock in touch the Sync card) by clicking the Generate MTC and out on a pair of BNC connectors, and SMPTE box. You can select MTC as the time code source in time code in and out on a pair of 1/4" jacks. the same setup window by clicking the Time Code Source dropdown box and selecting MIDI (MTC). Sync data is also transmitted through the ADAT lig
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Quick-Start Guide 15. Power Switch 16. Mouse This one is self-explanatory. When the POWER This 6-pin miniDIN connector is used to connect a switch is turned ON, power is supplied to the Digital PS/2-style mouse. X Bus and it boots up. When turning off the Digital 17. Keyboard X Bus, you should select Shutdown from the File menu. At the end of the shutdown procedure, the This 6-pin miniDIN connector is used to connect a touchscreens go blank, indicating that it is okay to PS/2-style keyboard
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About V-Pot Controls Operational Basics Are you ready to get started? Let’s turn on the Just below the touchscreens are a row of rotary con- trols called V-Pots, which is short for virtual potenti- Digital X Bus and go over some of the general ometer. Again, unlike an analog console where a rotary operational features before we start passing audio through it. pot can control one function, a digital console allows you to assign a V-Pot to many different functions. Turning on the Digital X Bus
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Quick-Start Guide 5. Make sure channel 1 has Input 1 assigned to it. Getting Sound Happening Open the Assign window (Windows > Assign). Under the Input Src drop-down box select Mic The following procedure demonstrates how to Line In. 1. connect a microphone to an input and get sound out of the Digital X Bus. Here’s what you’ll need: • 1 stereo power amplifi er • 1 pair of monitor speakers (you can substi- tute a pair of powered monitors for the power amplifi er/monitor speaker combo, or a s
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9. Connect the Left and Right Speaker Outs (A) 12. If you are using headphones instead of speak- from the Mix Out card to the inputs of your ste- ers, turn the Phones 1 level control all the way reo power amplifi er (or powered monitor speak- down in the PHONES 1 section on the right side ers). These outputs are balanced when using a of the console. Make sure L-R is selected as TRS (tip-ring-sleeve) connector, or unbalanced the source in the CONTROL ROOM section, and when using a TS (tip-slee
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QUICK-START GUIDE
X.200
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Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................................3 Getting Started ..........................................................................................................4 Connections.................................................................................................................................................4 I/O Cards ................................................................
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Quick-Start Guide 21. In the Reverb panel, click the Src L drop-down 24. Select the WRITE button in the ASSIGN BUT- box and select Channel Post Insert > Ch. 1 TON SETUP section of the console. Press the Post. This places the reverb in the post-insert ASSIGN button on channel 1. loop on channel 1. ASSIGN BUTTON SETUP REC L - R READ WRITE 25. Start running time code by pressing the PLAY button in the Transport section of the console. You can see the time code in the upper-right corner of the s
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Hookup Diagrams One of the primary applications for the X.200 is The hookup diagrams in this section demonstrate how the connections are made with the Digital X multitrack recording. This involves tracking and monitoring, bouncing, overdubbing, and mixdown. Bus X.200 for tracking and mixdown, mixdown to A typical application might involve 24 inputs for surround sound, and using a DAW. tracking and 24 outputs to a multitrack recorder or DAW (Digital Audio Workstation). In this case, you mi
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Quick-Start Guide 13 Quick-Start Guide Multi Effect TRACKING and Processor MIXDOWN Vocal Enhancer Reverb Reverb Vocal Mics ONE THREE THREE AES CARD DIGITAL CARDS MIC/LINE 4 CARDS SERIAL NUMBER MANUF. DATE D SLOT SYNC C SLOTS B SLOTS A SLOTS CAUTION WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT ENGINEERED BY D BY RISK OF EXPOSE THIS EQUIPMENT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE. DO NOT REMOVE COVER. NO USER SERVICEABLE PARTS INSIDE. REFER SERVICING TO QUALIFIED PERSONNEL. ELECTRIC SHOCK
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14 X.200 Digital X Bus Matching Powered Studio Monitors Left Front Left Center Center Right Center Right Front SURROUND MIXDOWN Left Rear Right Rear Powered Subwoofer 8 Bus Outputs THREE THREE ONE LINE CARD DIGITAL CARDS MIC/LINE 4 CARDS D SLOT SYNC C SLOTS B SLOTS A SLOTS CAUTION WARNING: TO REDUCE THE RISK OF FIRE OR ELECTRIC SHOCK, DO NOT SERIAL NUMBER MANUF. DATE RISK OF EXPOSE THIS EQUIPMENT TO RAIN OR MOISTURE. DO NOT REMOVE COVER. ENGINEERED BY D BY ELECTRIC SHOCK NO USER SERVICEA
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Quick-Start Guide 15 Quick-Start Guide This example demonstrates how to use the Digital X Bus with a digital audio workstation (DAW). Three MIC/LINE 4 cards provide up to 24 DIGITAL AUDIO microphone and instrument inputs (12 Mic/Line inputs and 12 Line inputs). Internal Effects Rack Reverb WORKSTATION Three AES cards provide 24 output tracks to the DAW’s audio interface via (DAW) 25-pin AES/EBU connections. The SMPTE IN/OUTs on the SYNC card provide Vocal Enhancer time code for the DAW. Tw
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Quick-Start Guide Introduction Thank you for choosing a Mackie Digital X Bus Note: As new software releases be- for your next-generation digital recording con- come available, they can be download- sole. The Digital X Bus offers you the fl exibility to ed from the Mackie website by going confi gure it for virtually any recording application to the Digital X Bus webpage at: through its extended card cage and I/O routing op- http://www.mackie.com/products/digitalxbus. tions. It was designed with t
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Getting Started I/O Cards Once you’ve unpacked your new 1. MIC/LINE 4 CARD Digital X Bus, you’ll want to posi- This card has four female XLR balanced micro- tion it where you can sit comfort- phone inputs, and four 1/4" TRS balanced/unbalanced ably and reach the touchscreens line-level inputs, for a total of eight analog inputs. and controls, and have relatively Note that this card does not provide any outputs. easy access to the rear panel, in case you need to make any changes to the conn
