User’s Guide Hammerfall DSP MADI
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15.1 Elements of the Surface
The visible design of the TotalMix mixer is mainly determined by the architecture of the HDSP
system:
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Upper row: hardware inputs. The level shown is that of the input signal, i. e. Fader
independent. Per fader and routing window, any input channel can be routed and mixed to
any hardware output (third row).
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Middle row: playback channels (playback tracks of the software). Per fader and routing
window, any playback channel can be routed and mixed to any hardware output (third row).
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Lower row: hardware outputs. Because they refer to the output of a subgroup, the level can
only be attenuated here (in order to avoid overloads), routing is not possible. This row has
two additional channels, the analog outputs.
Every single channel has various elements:
Input and playback channels each have a mute and solo button.
Below each there is the panpot, realized as indicator bar (L/R) in order to save space.
In the window below this, the present level is displayed in RMS or Peak, being
updated about every half a second. Overs are indicated here by an additional red dot.
Then comes the fader with a levelmeter. The meter shows both peak values (zero
attack, 1 sample is enough for displaying full scale) by means of a yellow line and
mathematically correct RMS values by means of a green bar. The RMS display has a
relatively slow time constant, so that it shows the average loudness quite well.
Below the fader, the current gain and panorama values are shown.
The white area shows the channel name, the black area shows the current routing
target. Selecting one or more channels is done by clicking on the white label which
turns yellow then.
