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The SERAPH 8 in Detail: Mixing and Routing
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The routing in detail
General
The routing of the SERAPH 8 is a complex digital patchbay. All signals of the channels of the
mixer as well as the mix sums (’master’, ’HP’ and ’Aux x’) may be played back on any physical
output (via the ’output’ section) or may be recorded within the same computer system (via the
’DAW Input’ section). Additionally for every single channel you may define, if the changes in
sound by the filter may become active or not on the routed output
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DAW In section
The SERAPH 8 offers 32 channels for recording. You can find
these labeled as ’DAW In 1’ up to ’DAW In 32’ in the ’DAW
Input’-section.
To an audio application they are available in
couples of two in so called ’devices’ with the names ’SERAPH 8 1-
2’ up to ’SERAPH 8 31-32’ or ”DAW IN 1-2” up to ”DAW IN
31-32”. Thus the SERAPH 8 offers 16 devices to an application
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.
Now, which signal of the mixer lands up on which device in
the audio application, can be defined freely
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via the selection
menus
With the ’M’ button, a signal can be muted. In this case it will
not appear any longer at any audio application. ’EQ’ de/activates
the filters for this signal, as set up in the channel of the mixer
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.
Of course double assignments are possible. E.g. a signal could be made available several
times to different audio applications once with EQ and once without.
Finally the knob defines the volume for this signal of this device. In position ’0,0’ no volume
or bit manipulation is applied to the signal. Below the knob you may enter a individual name
for this signal. Please note: if a signal was edited using the filter functions of the mixer, the level
of it may have to be adjusted in the ’DAW Input’ section in order to inhibit digital overloads.
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For mix sums the ’EQ’ switch is without function.
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On Windows
TM
XP per default, ’DAW In 1’ and ’DAW In 2’ are device ’SERAPH 8 1-2’ and ’DAW In 3’
and ’DAW In 4’ are device ’SERAPH 8 3-4’ and so on.
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You may thus define other orders of the channels than given by the input channels.
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For mix sums the ’EQ’ switch is without function
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With this a change in sound of a single signal may be audible within a mix of the mixer, but will not apply
when recording it.
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