User’s Guide HDSP System Digiface
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14.3 Submix View
Such a wide range of possibilities make it difficult to maintain the overview. Because practically
all hardware outputs can be used for different submixes, as shown. And when opening the
routing windows you might see an army of checkmarks, but you don't get an overwiev, i.e., how
the signals come together and where. This problem is removed by the view mode 'Submix'. In
this mode, all routing windows jump to the routing pair just being selected. So you can then see
immediately, which channels, which fader and pan settings make a submix (for example
'Analog').
At the same time the Submix View simplifies setting up the mixer, as all channels can be set
simultaneously to the same routing destination with just one click.
14.4 Mute and Solo
Mute works pre-fader, thus mutes all active routings of the channel. As soon as any Mute
button is pressed, the Master Mute button lights up in the quick access area. It can switch all
selected mutes off and on again. You can comfortably make mute groups to activate and
deactivate this way.
The same holds true for the Solo and the Master Solo buttons. Solo is working as a solo-in-
place. As soon as one Solo button is pressed, all other Mute buttons are activated and light up.
But TotalMix would not be an
Intelligent Audio Solution
, if it didn't behave as you'd expect from
a mixing console. If you, for instance, mute 'Out 1' to 'Out 4' and press Solo for 'Out 5', of
course all Mute buttons will light up. If you deactivate Solo, the Mute buttons for 'Out 1' to 'Out
4' light up as before. And if you chose Solo for a channel of this Mute group, mute will be
deactivated, but immediately activated again, if Solo is released.
14.5 Hotkeys
TotalMix knows only a few, but very effective key combinations, that make setting the mixer up
considerably easier and faster. The Shift-key for the fine-mode for faders and panpots has
already been mentioned. But the Ctrl-key can do far more than changing the routing pairwise:
•
Clicking anywhere into the fader area with the Ctrl-key pressed, sets the fader to 0 dB, -6
dB for the hardware outputs.
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Clicking anywhere into the pan area with the Ctrl-key pressed, sets the panorama to <C>
meaning 'Center'.
The faders can also be moved pairwise, corresponding to the basic stereo pairs. This can be
achieved by pressing the Alt-key and is especially comfortable when setting the SPDIF and
analogue output level. Even the Panoramas can be operated with Alt, from stereo through
mono to inversed channels. At the same time, TotalMix also supports combinations of these
keys. If you press Ctrl and Alt at the same time, clicking with the mouse makes the faders jump
to 0 dB pairwise, and they can be set pairwise by Shift-Alt in fine-mode.
Also very useful: the faders have two mouse areas. The first area is the fader button, which can
be grabbed at any place without changing the position. This avoids unwanted changes when
clicking onto it. The second area is the whole fader setting area. Clicking into this area makes
the fader jump to the mouse at once. If you want to set several faders to m.a. for instance, it is
sufficient to click onto the lower end of the fader path. Which happens pairwise with the Alt-key
pressed.
