Mackie D8B 3.0, Owner'S Manual

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D8B Manual • Chapter 3 • page 71
Morph
• Activated by clicking the MORPH icon.
• Automatically pans between the red and green
surround positions, depth-of-center level, and sub-
effect level.
Morph Time
• Controls the amount of time it takes for the
MORPH process to move between the two preset
positions (red and green balls).
• Can be adjusted between 1 and 121 seconds.
Depth of Center
• This control spreads (from the Center to the Left
and Right) the channel surround pan position in
the front half of the surround panorama.
• The resultant moves can be recorded into
automation.
Depth of Center Level Meter
• This display indicates the width of the center
image from 0 (Center) to 100 (Left and Right
only—phantom center channel).
• 50 is an even level distribution among L, C, and R.
Low Freq Effect
• Acts as an individual channel level control to the
subwoofer output.
• The number four speaker icon controls the
subwoofer on and off status (except LCRS).
• Since low frequencies are omnidirectional,
individual channel sends to the subwoofer are not
controlled in the surround pan positioning grid.
Their sends to the subwoofers are adjusted by the
Low Freq Effect fader.
• The fader control attenuates from 0.0 (full level)
to –100 (off).
• The level may be further boosted or attenuated at
the Bus 4 fader for the entire subwoofer output.
Channel Number Display
• This numeric readout indicates the channel being
affected.
Surround Modes
There are five surround modes available:
• Stereo
• Quad
• LCRS
• 5.1
• 7.1
Surround mode selection is accomplished in
the Mix Options Setup window. The Surround
Mode setting determines the look and functional-
ity of the SURROUND SOUND pan window. Each
Surround Mode shares similarities in functional-
ity, yet there are also differences in functionality.
Surround modes other than stereo use 4 to 8
speakers. While mixing in surround, the main
stereo L/R bus may still be available and active.
Pan positions between various front and rear
speakers are sent to the L/R mix as simple L/R
positioning. For example, a channel panned fully
right-rear (speaker 6) displays equal level in the
L/R mix as a channel panned fully right-front.
Speaker Icons
Speaker icons are numbered consistently
throughout the surround modes. Speakers 1 and 2
are always Front L/R; speaker 3 is always Front
Center; speaker 4 is always the Subwoofer (except
in the case of LCRS, when it’s the Mono Surround);
speakers 5 and 6 are always Rear L/R; and
speakers 7 and 8 are always Front Left Center
and Front Right Center.
To set speaker status across a 12 channel row
(or a portion of a row), open the Panning Overview
window (Ctrl+7), click on a speaker icon, and drag
parallel left or right—all channels in the row will
adopt the speaker status of the originally selected
icon.
Stereo
• Since stereo is a two dimensional mix mode,
there’s not much use in using the surround
window to pan.
• MORPH and FLYBACK are available only in the
surround pan window. These features offer
creative possibilities in any multichannel mix mode.
• Low Freq Effect and Depth of Center are not
functional in this mode.