RME HDSPe MADI FX [47/87] Settings

User's Guide HDSPe MADI FX © RME

25.3.1 Settings

A click on the tool symbol opens the channel’s Settings panel. It includes these elements:

Stereo. Switches the channel to mono or stereo mode.

Width. Defines the stereo width. 1.00 equals full stereo, 0.00 mono,

-1.00 swapped channels.

FX Send. Setting the level of the signal sent to the FX bus which feeds

Echo and Reverb. The current setting is also visible with closed channel

settings, because knob and small fader are always synchronized. To

make this function as useful as possible FX Send is locked to the

highest submix, thus imitating the Aux Post Fader function of a standard

mixing desk. When moving the big fader both knob and small fader will

also move. This way the reverb signal will always have the same

relation to the dry signal.

The level of the signal sent to the effects can be controlled by the FX In

level meters of the FX window. It becomes visible after a click on FX in

the View Options.

MS Proc. Activates M/S processing within the stereo channel. Monaural

information is sent to the left channel, stereo information to the right.

Phase L. Inverts the phase of the left channel by 180°.

Phase R. Inverts the phase of the right channel by 180°.

Note

: the functions Width, MS Proc, Phase L and Phase R affect all routings of the respective

channel.

The Hardware Outputs have no width option, but two other options:

FX Return. The effect signal (Echo and Reverb) is mixed to the

respective hardware output by the duo knob/small fader.

Talkback. Activates this channel as receiver and output of the Talkback

signal. This way Talkback can be sent to any outputs, not only the

Phones in the Control Room section. Another application could be to

send a certain signal to specific outputs by the push of a button.

No Trim. Sometimes channels need to have a fixed routing and level,

which should not be changed in any case. An example is the stereo

mixdown for recording of a live show. With No Trim active, the routing to

this output channel is excluded from the Trim Gains function, therefore is

not changed unintentionally.

Loopback. Sends the output data to the driver as record data. The

corresponding submix can be recorded then. This channel’s hardware

input sends its data only to TotalMix, no longer to the recording software.

Another difference to the input and playback channels is the Cue button instead of Solo. A click

on Cue sends the respective Hardware Output’s audio to the Main Out, or any of the Phones

outputs (option Assign / Cue to in the Control Room section). With this any hardware output can

be controlled and listened to through the monitoring output very conveniently.