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Manual Rev 1.0.4
March 7, 2005
OWNER’S MANUAL
X.200
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Important Safety Instructions 13. Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unused for long 1. Read these instructions. periods of time. 2. Keep these instructions. 14. Refer all servicing to qualifi ed service personnel. Servicing is required 3. Heed all warnings. when the apparatus has been damaged in any way, such as power- supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled or objects have 4. Follow all instructions. fallen into the apparatus, the apparatus has been expos
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Owner's Manual Table of Contents Introduction................................................................................................................8 Getting Started ..........................................................................................................9 Connections................................................................................................................................................ 9 I/O Cards .................................................
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The Screens................................................................................................................ 21 Overview .................................................................................................................................................... 21 Meters and Switching Banks..........................................................................................................................................21 Accessing Windows............................
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Owner's Manual The Windows Menu.................................................................................................................................32 About......................................................................................................................................................................................................................32 Hot Keys ..........................................................................................................
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MIDI and the Digital X Bus.............................................................................................................................................66 MIDI Basics...........................................................................................................................................................................................................66 Word Clock and the Digital X Bus —The Kitchen Sync...............................................................
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Owner's Manual Appendix D: Software Installation....................................................................88 Digital X Bus Software Installation Procedure...............................................................................88 Windows XP Users............................................................................................................................................................88 Windows 2000/ME/98SE Users.....................................................
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Introduction Thank you for choosing a Mackie Digital X Bus Then, when you have time, read this owner's for your next-generation digital recording console. manual. It contains descriptions of every knob, The Digital X Bus offers you the fl exibility to confi g- button, and slider on the console, and all the menus ure it for virtually any recording application through and windows on the touchscreens. its extended card cage and I/O routing options. Throughout this manual you’ll fi nd illustrations
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Owner's Manual Getting Started Once you’ve unpacked your new Each mic input provides an individual phantom Digital X Bus, you’ll want to posi- switch (+48 VDC), and a digitally controlled input tion it where you can sit comfort- trim. All these controls are found in the I/O Confi gu- ably and reach the touchscreens ration window. and controls, and have relatively Each line input on the Mic/Line 4 card has a cor- easy access to the rear panel, in case you need to responding –10 dBv/+4 dBu jump
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At 44.1/48 kHz sample rates, each optical 3. LINE CARD TOSLINK connector provides either eight inputs The Line card has two female DB25 connectors. or eight outputs of digital audio. At 88.2/96 kHz One provides eight balanced line-level inputs, and sample rates, the S/MUX protocol is used to provide the other provides eight balanced line-level outputs. four channels of I/O on the “A” connectors, and four They use the TASCAM standard pinout for analog channels of I/O on the “B” connector
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Owner's Manual At sampling rates up to 48 kHz, two channels of return, you can assign them to feed channels, buses, digital audio are transmitted on a single wire (one the control room, or whatever you like. 3-pin XLR) at normal speed as specifi ed by the S/PDIF IN and OUT AES/EBU standard. These are RCA-type connectors that send and At sampling rates of 88.2/96 kHz, two channels of receive standard S/PDIF two-channel digital sig- digital audio are transmitted on a single wire (one nals. The
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A note about clocking and sync: nect these outputs to the inputs of a 2-track recorder for mixdown, or to the inputs of a power amplifi er to The ADAT, AES/EBU, and SPDIF digital audio drive a pair of speakers for the studio or whatever. specifi cations include the presence of a “clock refer- ence signal” through the same physical connection as the audio signals. This means that you can use Note: Remember that the level for the Main L/R the Digital X Bus as a master clock source, and Mix Out
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Owner's Manual If you need additional MIDI ports, you can at- Other Connections tach a third party USB MIDI interface to one of the USB ports on the rear of the console, load the third In addition to the cards in the card slots, there are party drivers into the console, and use those ports more connections to be made on the rear panel. for whatever MIDI transmissions you want to use. 9. FOOT SWITCH 1 and 2 Please see “Connecting and Controlling a Digital Audio Workstation” for complete det
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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 Digital X Bus lets you know when it is okay to turn PS/2 style keyboard. off the power swi
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Owner's Manual Console Surface Controls Touch the VU meter to open the DYNAMICS Channel Strip window. See "The Screens, The Windows Menu, Dynamics" for more info. The touchscreens are actually an extension of the channel strips, so we'll begin by describing the 24. Equalizer channel strip controls on the touchscreens. The small EQ window indicates whether the 20. Meters channel's equalizer is turned on (the EQ window lights up when the EQ is turned on). It also indi- The meters indicate th
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When one of the above buttons is selected (lit), all 29. SOLO 24 V-Pots control that function for each of the 24 chan- • Pressing SOLO lets you hear nels in the selected bank. only the soloed channel in the In addition, windows that contain adjustable param- Control Room output (or the Left eters, like the Dynamics and EQ windows, have their and Right Mix if Mixdown solo controls situated above the channel V-Pots, which is enabled). SELECT temporarily become controls for the parameters in
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Owner's Manual Control Room Section Phones Section The Control Room section is where you defi ne the The Phones section [38] allows you to select the source for monitoring in your control room. Typi- input source for the headphone outputs (Phones 1 and cally, you would use the Speaker 1 and Speaker 2 2). Typically, you would select the C/R (Control Room) outputs on the Mix Card for control room monitor- button for the headphone source, but you can have ing, giving you the choice of near-fi eld
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• Click Talk to Phones 1 to send the talkback sig- • The CLEAR button [45] blinks whenever a nal to the Phones 1 output, and Talk to Phones channel is soloed. Press the CLEAR button to to send the talkback signal to the Phones 2 clear all soloed channels. This is particularly output. useful when working with solos across multiple fader banks. • Adjust the talkback signal level with the Level slider in the Talkback Setup window. • Adjust the solo signal level with the knob [46] in the Solo
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Owner's Manual The Edit In and Edit Out points are used to copy, • Move the timeline cursor in the Mix Editor to cut, and paste sections of automation data in the the point where you want to stop looping. Press Mix Editor. STORE [55] and then STOP [53]. To set the Edit In and Edit Out points: • You can also click and drag the Loop In and Loop Out markers in the time bar in the Mix • Move the timeline cursor in the Mix Editor to Editor screen. the point where you want to start editing. Press
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61. STOP 58. SET • Stops external machines and the time code • To move the timeline cursor to a new position display at the current position. in the Mix Editor, with LOCATE [57] lit, press SET, then enter the time you want to move the 62. PLAY cursor to using the number buttons, then press • Engages external machine and time code dis- ENTER [49]. play to play at normal speed from the current location. Transport Controls 63. RECORD These buttons control external devices that respond to MID
