Mackie Digital 8Bus D8B v5.1, Owner'S Manual

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D8B Manual • Preface • page 2
• Enhanced Surround Sound features:
°
Surround Sound Setup window
°
Surround Sound Monitor Level control in the
Surround window
° Mute option for surround monitoring when in
Stereo surround mode
° Surround mode now selectable from the
Surround window
°
Surround panning appears in Fat Channel
• Adjustable attenuation for the Control Room DIM
switch includes –20 dB, –30 dB, –40 dB, and off
• Track Sheet stores all pertinent session
information with the session itself
• Track Sheet can be exported as an HTML file or
text file
• Channel Notes window for keeping additional
notes about each channel
• Serial•9 support provides Sony 9-Pin
communication with external devices
• Copy Mix to Bus copies the current L/R mix to
any consecutive odd/even pair of buses (Bus 1-8)
• Copy Mix to Cues button now provides the option
of copying the current L/R mix to any consecutive
odd/even pair of aux sends, including the cue
mixes (Aux 9/10 and 11/12)
• Global Aux Pre/Post Assign in the Mix Options
Setup window now includes Aux 9/10 and 11/12
• Reset Selected Channel provides an easy way to
reset all the parameters on the selected channel
to their default values
• Screen Saver option can be set to activate after
1 minute, and after up to 1 hour of inactivity
• Extended Memory Usage now supports up to 250 MB
of RAM
Note: If you are updating from version 3.0 to the v5.1
OS, when you open a session that was created in version
3.0, you may experience anomolies in some of the EQ
settings due to the new EQ alogrithms in v5.1. You
may want to finish any sessions you’ve already started
in version 3.0 before updating to v5.1. If you do update
midway through a session, be sure to double-check your
EQ settings and make sure they are set correctly.
Alternately, there is an option to select version 3.0 EQ
settings under Mix Options in the Setup window. This
instructs the DSP to use the version 3.0 algorithms for
the EQ, rather than the new and improved algorithms
for v5.1.
Another Note: You’re probably wondering what
happened to version 4. Version 5 has so many new
features and enhanced graphics that we thought it was
appropriate to skip version 4 altogether and jump up
to version 5!