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Chapter 4: Eleven Rack Live Setup

Chapter 4: Eleven Rack Live Setup

In live performance or practice, Eleven Rack can be used as a standalone guitar preamp and processor,
connected to an amplifier and/or direct to a PA system. This chapter will describe how to make the
necessary connections.

Figure 4. Eleven Rack Live Setup

MIDI Foot Controller

Footswitch or

Expression Pedal

Effects

PA Mixer

Содержание Eleven Rack

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Страница 2: ...Pro Tools Pro Tools HD Pro Tools LE QuickPunch Recti Fi Reel Tape Reso Reverb One ReVibe RTAS Sibelius Smack SoundReplacer Sound Designer II Strike Structure SYNC HD SYNC I O Synchronic TL Aggro TL Au...

Страница 3: ...d including interference that may cause undesired operation Communication Statement NOTE This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Par...

Страница 4: ...ding type plug has two blades and a third grounding prong The wide blade or the third prong are provided for your safety If the provided plug does not fit into your outlet consult an electrician for r...

Страница 5: ...Overview 13 Rig Select Mode 13 Rig Organization 14 Selecting Rigs Live 14 What s In A Rig 15 Rig View 15 Rig Device and Utility Settings in Rig View 16 Signal Routing 18 Control Pages 19 Saving Your W...

Страница 6: ...Pro Tools 50 Chapter 7 Pro Tools Configuration 51 Starting Up or Shutting Down Your System 51 Configuring Pro Tools LE 52 Optimizing a Mac System for Pro Tools 59 Optimizing a Windows System for Pro T...

Страница 7: ...ng to the System Drive 99 Supported Drive Formats and Drive Types 99 Formatting an Audio Drive 100 Partitioning Drives 101 Defragmenting an Audio Drive 102 Using Mac Drives on Windows Systems 103 Hard...

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Страница 9: ...1 Part I Playing Guitar through Eleven Rack...

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Страница 11: ...ed audio When away from the computer you can use Eleven Rack as a standalone guitar processor sending classic guitar tones straight to a venue s PA system to a guitar amp or both You can also simply p...

Страница 12: ...Effects Bypass buttons like Dist Mod Delay and Rev to toggle the various effects on and off System Requirements and Compatibility To use Eleven Rack with Pro Tools you need One of the following A qua...

Страница 13: ...Tools Part 3 Reference In Part 3 we get into the technical details be hind the scenes Learn all about Eleven Rack s User Options in Chapter 10 User Options and how to control Eleven Rack with MIDI in...

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Страница 15: ...Edit Back and Save Buttons Use the Edit Back button to enter Rig View which gives you access to the inner workings of the current Rig preset When in Rig View or any other special mode press Edit back...

Страница 16: ...d effects like Delay and Tremolo can be set to synchronize with the new tempo If you want to save the new tempo setting with the current Rig press the Save button To access the built in guitar tuner h...

Страница 17: ...Amp 1 L is one of two outputs specifically designed for connecting to the input of a guitar amplifier Since most amplifier input jacks are located on the amp s front panel we put one of these jacks on...

Страница 18: ...s tem The Gnd Lift switch is useful for suppressing hum in some situations but should usually be left switched off unless it is really needed Output To Amp 2 R The Output To Amp 2 R is one of two outp...

Страница 19: ...vel switch lets you choose between 4 or 10 dBV for compat ibility with professional and consumer gear MIDI I O The MIDI In and MIDI Out ports are standard 5 pin MIDI ports each providing 16 channels o...

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Страница 21: ...e your own You can audition manage edit and create Rigs right from the front panel of Eleven Rack When using Eleven Rack with Pro Tools LE the built in Eleven Rack Control window offers another conven...

Страница 22: ...ry presets and those with uppercase letters are the user banks User Rigs and Factory Rigs By default all 104 user Rigs are copies of the 104 factory Rigs This gives you a place to start when you set o...

Страница 23: ...view like Amp Mod or FX1 Rig View Rig View is a special editing mode you access by pressing the Edit Back button on the front panel of Eleven Rack When you re done editing press the Edit Back button...

Страница 24: ...ol page where you can adjust the position and minimum vol ume of the Volume pedal using the lit Control knobs WAH Turn the lit Control knob to select the type of Wah pedal you want to use Press CONTRO...

Страница 25: ...between ste reo or mono output The Rig volume setting is a tonally transparent volume control intended for making fine ad justments to the relative volume levels of differ ent Rigs The To Amp output v...

Страница 26: ...n be changed The order that effects units are plugged into each other can make a large difference in the sound you get Most effects can be moved anywhere before or after the amp and cabinet models The...

Страница 27: ...OLO tremolo on off If there is more than one page of controls avail able for the current device or utility setting a Page indicator is displayed Turn the scroll wheel to switch between pages You can a...

Страница 28: ...any special features and controls each amp offers 59 Tweed Lux Based on a classic late 50s tube combo amp with a single 12 inch speaker and a pair of 6V6 tubes delivering 15 watts the 59 Tweed Lux mo...

Страница 29: ...sity control is rolled all the way off 66 AC Hi Boost Originally released in 1958 the British amp we based our 66 AC Hi Boost model upon went through a few design changes that would even tually define...

Страница 30: ...amous for On the first Control page SW2 is set to toggle the Bright switch on and off On the second page SW2 toggles vibrato on and off 69 Plexiglas Based on one of the most highly sought after high v...

Страница 31: ...ht switch circuit has progressively less effect as the gain is raised and no effect when the pre amp is set to 10 Toggle the Bright switch on and off with the SW2 button 92 Treadplate Modern and Vinta...

Страница 32: ...ely match the amps we modeled for Eleven Rack When you view the Amp controls a Page indi cator is displayed to show you which page of controls you re viewing Turn the Scroll wheel to switch pages Trem...

Страница 33: ...gles the amp simulation on and off leaving any effects in the Rig un changed The Speaker Cabinets This section describes all of the emulated speaker cabinets available in Eleven Rack 1x12 Black Lux Th...

Страница 34: ...the Dyn 7 model has a smooth powerful tone quality Dyn 57 Based on a midsize diaphragm American dy namic mic the Dyn 57 model has a classic ag gressive tone with a bright edge and pro nounced mids Dyn...

Страница 35: ...r MIDI foot controller Wah Effects Black Wah Black Wah is a standard wah pedal effect offer ing a sweepable resonant filter that lets you add animation and special timbral effects to the gui tar signa...

Страница 36: ...rhythm and lead tones out of soft sounding vintage amps and create surprisingly hard edged tones when paired with more mod ern amps Green JRC Overdrive Green JRC Overdrive was inspired by a low gain...

Страница 37: ...Sets the intensity and speed of the Cho rus effect only when the Chorus Vibrato switch is set to Chorus Depth Sets the depth of the Vibrato effect only when the Chorus Vibrato switch is set to Vi bra...

Страница 38: ...eaker Type Chooses between various types of rotary speakers Reverb Effects Blackpanel Spring Reverb Blackpanel Spring Reverb was inspired by a clas sic outboard tube driven spring reverb It can add a...

Страница 39: ...ut of the signal With high feed back settings the tape hiss can push the echo into self oscillating mayhem BBD Delay When bucket brigade analog delays arrived in the mid 70s their relatively small siz...

Страница 40: ...ects is set to a rhythmic subdivision of the incoming tempo the effect will lock to it When Sync is set to Off the Rate or Delay control on the effect will take over and the rate of modulation or dela...

Страница 41: ...ctice Eleven Rack can be used as a standalone guitar preamp and processor connected to an amplifier and or direct to a PA system This chapter will describe how to make the necessary connections Figure...

Страница 42: ...live with Eleven Rack is to connect it directly to the PA mixer using the Main XLR outputs When doing so it is recom mended to tell the person running the PA sys tem that you are providing a line leve...

Страница 43: ...n amp with stereo inputs connect each Output To Amp output to a separate amp or channel input Sending the Correct Signal Eleven Rack lets you choose the point in the sig nal path that feeds each Outpu...

Страница 44: ...s and amp simulation 6 Press Edit Back twice to leave User Options mode The signal level running to each Output To Amp output can be set on a per rig basis in the Output section in Rig View or in the...

Страница 45: ...witch to the Rack FX posi tion If using a guitar level stompbox effect tog gle the switch to the Stompbox FX position External Foot Controllers Eleven Rack has a 1 4 TRS input that can accept input fr...

Страница 46: ...tions within Eleven Rack such as effects on off and cycling through rigs Choose a momentary footswitch with a 1 4 inch TS single switch or 1 4 inch TRS dual switch connection MIDI Foot Controller You...

Страница 47: ...39 Part II Setting Up and Using Pro Tools With Eleven Rack...

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Страница 49: ...k Studio Setup Installing Pro Tools LE and Connecting Eleven Rack Before connecting your Eleven Rack to the com puter you need to install Pro Tools LE software To install Pro Tools LE on Mac OS X 1 Ma...

Страница 50: ...alls the Pro Tools application and supporting library files needed to run Pro Tools This option also installs the Digidesign CoreAudio Driver This option must be selected to install Pro Tools DigiRack...

Страница 51: ...vides addi tional software for your system including audio drivers for playing other audio applications through your Digidesign hardware and a Pro Tools demo session Third Party Applications and Plug...

Страница 52: ...e logged in as an Administra tor for the account where Pro Tools is installed 2 Go to Applications Digidesign Pro Tools Pro Tools Utilities and double click Uninstall Pro Tools 3 Click Continue to pro...

Страница 53: ...m puter includes the following steps 1 Installing Pro Tools LE and Connecting Your Interface on page 46 2 Launching Pro Tools LE on page 48 3 Configuring your system for improved perfor mance see Chap...

Страница 54: ...Select Features page do one of the fol lowing To install all Pro Tools application files and free plug in suites and associated content leave the default Installation options se lected and click Conti...

Страница 55: ...HFS Disk Support Option This option lets your Pro Tools system read write record and play back using Mac formatted HFS disks HFS disks are commonly referred to as Mac OS Ex tended disks Avid Video En...

Страница 56: ...r your system including audio drivers for playing other audio applications through your Digidesign hardware and a Pro Tools demo session Third Party Applications and Plug ins Your Pro Tools package al...

Страница 57: ...t you can use to verify that your sys tem is working The demo session for Pro Tool LE is named Fil tered Dream To install the demo session 1 Insert the Pro Tools LE Installer disc into your DVD drive...

Страница 58: ...ninstall Pro Tools from your computer 1 Start Windows logging in with Administrator privileges For details on Administrator privi leges refer to your Windows documentation 2 Go to C Program Files Digi...

Страница 59: ...external hard drives Wait ap proximately ten seconds for them to spin up to speed 4 Turn on any control surfaces such as Com mand 8 5 Turn on any MIDI interfaces MIDI devices or synchronization perip...

Страница 60: ...e all input to out put monitoring latency on any record armed tracks or Auxiliary Input tracks with live in puts Higher Hardware Buffer Size settings are use ful for sessions that are using more RTAS...

Страница 61: ...rocessors and CPU Us age Limit settings to achieve the best results For example to improve screen response in a medium sized session using a moderate num ber of RTAS plug ins try reducing the number o...

Страница 62: ...ed when you use all your processors as selected in the RTAS Processing pop up menu For example on dual processors the limit is 90 On four processor computers the limit is 95 To change the CPU Usage Li...

Страница 63: ...ck Buffer Size for most disk operations is 1500 msec Level 2 Default DAE Playback Buffer Size settings lower than 1500 msec Level 2 Default may improve playback and recording initiation speed as well...

Страница 64: ...This setting only affects playback if disk stream ing is activated in Structure s plug in controls see the Structure Plug in Guide for more informa tion The optimum Plug in Streaming Buffer Size for m...

Страница 65: ...Engine 2 Select the Optimize for Streaming Content op tion 3 Click OK Pro Tools Hardware Settings In the Hardware Setup dialog Pro Tools lets you set the default sample rate and clock source for your...

Страница 66: ...nu 3 Click OK Digital Format The Pro Tools Hardware Setup dialog lets you se lect the format of Eleven Rack s digital I Os AES EBU Use this setting if you are interfacing Eleven Rack with a digital de...

Страница 67: ...on and settings if you encounter any problems Optimizing a Mac System for Pro Tools To ensure optimum performance with Pro Tools configure your computer before using Pro Tools hardware and software Be...

Страница 68: ...Disable or Reassign Mac Keyboard Shortcuts Used by Pro Tools To have the full complement of Pro Tools key board shortcuts you need to disable or reassign any conflicting Mac OS X Keyboard Shortcuts in...

Страница 69: ...ol Option Shift Com mand Number Keys from the To switch directly to a space pop up menu Disabling Spotlight Indexing The Mac OS X Spotlight feature automatically indexes files and folders on local har...

Страница 70: ...1 Right click Computer Windows Vista or My Computer Windows XP 2 In the left hand pane of the Computer Man agement window under System Tools click on Device Manager 3 In the right hand pane click the...

Страница 71: ...settings are set to Never Turn off hard disks System standby System hibernates 6 Click OK Disabling User Account Control Windows Vista Only For optimal performance with Pro Tools on Windows Vista disa...

Страница 72: ...k adapters then double click the Network Adapter card you want to disable 4 Under the General tab choose Do not use this device disable from the Device Usage pop up menu and click OK 5 Close the Compu...

Страница 73: ...tems 1 From the Start menu type msconfig in Start Search Windows Vista or in Run Windows XP and click OK to open the System Configuration Utility 2 Under the General tab choose Selective Startup 3 Des...

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Страница 75: ...th the other gear in your recording setup like speakers headphones instruments and microphones Figure 8 Eleven Rack Studio Setup This first section addresses the connections you ll want to make when r...

Страница 76: ...r by changing the setting in User Options Mode For more details see Headphone Volume on page 94 Analog Audio Inputs Eleven Rack features three types of analog in puts There is a dedicated guitar instr...

Страница 77: ...ake sure the microphone is connected then flip the Phantom Power switch to ON 4 Carefully turn the Gain control up to increase the input level of your microphone signal 5 If the incoming signal seems...

Страница 78: ...of sample rates you ll need to stay within that range when choosing the sample rate for your Pro Tools session 4 Click OK At this point you can try to record some signal from the digital device if it...

Страница 79: ...ontrol window in Pro Tools to control Eleven Rack and manage Rigs Eleven Rack must be connected to the computer using USB You ll also need to install the included Pro Tools HD or M Powered software up...

Страница 80: ...terface using AES EBU or S PDIF digital I O 1 Connect the Eleven Rack to an open pair of digital inputs and outputs on your audio inter face either AES EBU or S PDIF 2 Hold the Edit Back button on Ele...

Страница 81: ...onger be set from within the User Op tions mode on the front panel When connecting Eleven Rack to your Pro Tools system digitally clock source must be set to Ex ternal and the sample rate must match t...

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Страница 83: ...tput Main Phones outputs Output To Amp outputs Stereo digital output Playback of up to 48 mono or stereo digital au dio tracks or a combination of playing back and recording up to 48 mono or stereo di...

Страница 84: ...n be accessed when using Eleven Rack as an interface with Pro Tools LE as well as when connected to a Pro Tools HD system for control over USB Figure 10 Eleven Rack Control window in Pro Tools LE Rig...

Страница 85: ...zed it shows the Rig Library menu basic monitoring controls and a button which activates the Tuner Similar controls can be accessed from the Guitar panel in the top bar of controls in the Edit window...

Страница 86: ...Rack or in your computer or load a Rig setting from an audio file with embed ded Rig data The chosen Rig will be loaded into Eleven Rack and can then be edited via the Eleven Rack Con trol window or...

Страница 87: ...d expression pedal functions for the current Rig Rig Tempo The Rig Tempo menu sets the tempo of the cur rent Rig Set a tempo and the time based effects tremolo delay etc that are set to sync will fol...

Страница 88: ...t assigned greyed out a menu is displayed letting you choose to send the signal at the chosen location to Output to Amp output one two or both in stereo or If the selector you click is already assigne...

Страница 89: ...rol section On the displayed device you can turn the knobs toggle the switches and rock the pedals and everything you do is transmitted to Eleven Rack so you can hear the changes you make in real time...

Страница 90: ...ns mode on Eleven Rack Output Mute Buttons These two buttons let you mute the Headphone output and the Main outputs on Eleven Rack from within Pro Tools This comes in handy when recording with a mi cr...

Страница 91: ...he pro cessed stereo output from the amp cabinet mic and effects simulations shows up as a second stereo input path in Pro Tools for monitoring and or recording Eleven Rig L and R Thus the dry guitar...

Страница 92: ...ter This can also be helpful when collaborating or bringing sessions or regions to a different system using Eleven Rack because your settings travel with the files To embed Rig settings in recorded au...

Страница 93: ...is loaded into Eleven Rack and is ready to use To load an embedded Rig setting from within the Eleven Rack Control Window 1 Open the Eleven Rack Control window by clicking Window Eleven Rack 2 Click...

Страница 94: ...track to be re amped 5 Select a Rig in the Eleven Rack Control win dow and adjust the settings as desired 6 Start recording in Pro Tools 7 The audio from the chosen track will be pro cessed through E...

Страница 95: ...1 3 On Eleven Rack press and hold the Edit but ton for 1 second to enter User Options mode 4 Scroll with the Scroll wheel to MIDI and press the SW1 switch 5 Use the lit Control knob to choose a MIDI...

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Страница 99: ...change 3 Press the SW1 button to access the controls for that option 4 Press Edit Back once to return to the User Op tions menu or twice to exit User Options mode and return to the previous screen To...

Страница 100: ...cluding cab and mic emulation Rig Out No Cab The fully processed signal with the Cab model automatically bypassed Digital Clock Input When Eleven Rack is being used standalone and is not plugged into...

Страница 101: ...FX loop Set the control to Mono if using a mono effect to Mono to Stereo if using an effect that takes a mono signal but has a stereo output or Stereo if using a true stereo effects unit External Peda...

Страница 102: ...ee the current positions of the control knobs as either graphic knobs or as numeric values If you choose to display the controls as knobs keep in mind that you can see the exact numeric value of a con...

Страница 103: ...ction lists the available MIDI controls for use with Eleven Rack Eleven Rack MIDI CC Controllers Table 12 Eleven Rack MIDI Continuous Controllers CC Parameter Notes Minimum Value Maximum Value 3 Amp S...

Страница 104: ...g 6 0 127 35 Delay Setting 3 0 127 36 Reverb On Off 0 63 Off 64 127 On 0 127 37 FX2 Setting 8 0 127 38 Reverb Setting 2 0 127 39 Reverb Setting 4 0 127 40 Reverb Setting 3 0 127 41 Reverb Setting 6 0...

Страница 105: ...f 0 63 Off 64 127 On 0 127 72 Delay Setting 11 0 127 73 Delay Setting 12 0 127 74 Delay Setting 13 0 127 75 Volume Pedal On Off 0 63 Off 64 127 On 0 127 76 Reverb Setting 5 0 127 77 FX1 Setting 4 0 12...

Страница 106: ...08 FX Loop Return 0 127 109 FX2 Setting 12 0 127 110 FX2 Setting 13 0 127 111 Amp On Off 0 63 Off 64 127 On 0 127 112 Amp Setting 7 0 127 113 FX2 Setting 1 0 127 114 FX2 Setting 2 0 127 115 FX2 Settin...

Страница 107: ...with HFS or HFS file system only Windows Windows XP systems should use drives formatted as NTFS only Hard drive performance depends on factors in cluding system configuration number of tracks session...

Страница 108: ...count with internal drives visit the Digidesign website at www digidesign com compatibility Formatting an Audio Drive Formatting Mac Audio Drives For optimum performance audio drives should be formatt...

Страница 109: ...select a partition size and other partition settings When prompted choose a file system For optimum performance audio drives should be formatted as NTFS Select Perform a quick format Make sure Enable...

Страница 110: ...rt that playback will still be very seek intensive Also the remaining free space on the disk will be dis contiguous increasing the likelihood of file fragmentation on subsequent record passes Increase...

Страница 111: ...Mac formatted HFS drive connected to a Windows system This functionality requires that all Mac session and audio files be stored on Mac formatted drives During Pro Tools installation make sure to se...

Страница 112: ...d hard drive space for audio tracks 44 1 kHz and 48 kHz sessions shown Number of Tracks and Length 16 bit at 44 1 kHz 16 bit at 48 kHz 24 bit at 44 1 kHz 24 bit at 48 kHz 1 mono track 1 minute 5 MB 5...

Страница 113: ...r Bombich Carbon Copy Cloner Mac By doing this you can quickly restore your system configuration and settings if you encounter any problems Common Issues Pro Tools Won t Launch Problem When you double...

Страница 114: ...your computer before running Pro Tools Power Saver Features Some automatic power saver features such as those that spin down the system hard drive can affect Pro Tools perfor mance These features shou...

Страница 115: ...for use with your Pro Tools system refer to the latest compatibility information on the Digidesign website www digidesign com compatibility Other Software If you are using other audio or video applica...

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Страница 117: ...as in depth instructions on using the guitar processor in Eleven Rack Printed Getting Started with Pro Tools Guide The printed Eleven Rack Pro Tools Guide has tu torials on using Pro Tools such as rec...

Страница 118: ...line An swerbase or join the worldwide Pro Tools com munity on the Digidesign User Conference Training and Education Study on your own using courses available online or find out how you can learn in a...

Страница 119: ...43 Windows 48 B banks 14 Black Wah 27 bypass 25 C Cache Size 56 Clean Uninstall Mac 44 Clock Source 58 Internal setting 58 S PDIF digital setting 58 Control knobs 4 9 15 Control pages 16 19 CoreAudio...

Страница 120: ...izing 102 partitioning 101 SCSI requirements 100 space requirements 104 Hardware Buffer Size 52 headphones 3 I I O Setup Windows 58 IDE ATA requirements 100 Ignore Errors During Playback Record option...

Страница 121: ...ing performance Windows 64 Q QuickTime installing Windows 47 R re amping 86 removing Pro Tools Windows 44 50 Rig devices Amp 16 Cab 16 Dist 16 Dly 17 FX Loop 17 FX1 and FX2 16 Mod 16 moving 18 Rev 17...

Страница 122: ...ings Cache Size 56 Clock Source 58 CPU Usage Limit 54 Hardware Buffer Size 52 I O Setup 58 Plug in Streaming Buffer 57 Plug in Streaming Buffer Size 56 Sample Rate 57 T Tap Tempo 8 technical support p...

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Страница 124: ...Daly City CA 94014 3886 USA TECHNICAL SUPPORT USA Visit the Digidesign Online Support Center at www digidesign com support PRODUCT INFORMATION For company and product information www digidesign com v...

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