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Below the fader/meters section are controls for managing assignments for Link Groups, Mute Groups and
DCA groups, with Bus Assign selectors (all currently defaulted to the Main bus) as the bottom controls on
the input strip. The Assign control is for routing that strip the Main bus and/or any available Group bus.
At the very top and bottom of each strip is a color band (default color: gray) for differentiating strips at a
glance. Click on a color band to open the color selector. Setting the color of a strip will apply to multiple
strips at once based on either a ‘Selected Strips’ group or the assigned link group. (Note: Strip colors can
be applied to the entire strip as a
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section of the MIOConsole3d overview for more information.
Bus Strips
In the default mixer configuration you have the one stereo Main "master" bus and four Aux bus return
strips. These bus strips all have To Host (post-fader only), Inserts, Solo, Mute, Record Enable, Link Group,
Mute Group, DCA, and Assign control elements which all work just like the Input strips.
Aux, Group and Main buses have an additional routing selector below "Assign" on the strip called "Bus
Output". Use Bus Output to route bus strip outputs to any hardware port or as additional post-fader return
routes to the Host computer.
There are two other types of buses which are not shown in the default mixer, but are shown in the “Mixer
Strip elements exposed” graphic: Group buses and the Solo bus. The Solo bus appears when a PFL or
AFL Solo mode is chosen in Configure Mixer (default is Solo-In-Place). Group buses are also created in
Configure Mixer. We will get into more detail on MIOConsole3d busing architecture later but the general
flow is:
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Aux Mix Bus 1
Main Faders summing bus
Aux 1 Send Faders summing bus
Main
Bus Output
Summing buses and “Bus Assigns”
send to Group & Main buses.
Green signal flow is latency compensated
“Bus Outputs” send to audio
outputs (Host, USB, analog & digital).
Red signal flow *is not* latency-compensated
Main Mix Bus
Input Strips
Group Bus 1
Ch 1
Ch 2
Ch 3
Ch 4
Ch 5
Ch 6
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Aux mix
Bus Output
Group
Bus Output
Group
Bus Assign
Aux mix
Bus Assign
Figure 3.11: Basic 3d Mixer signal flow
