M-Audio Wizoo Darbuka [13/30] The track mixer

Darbuka • User Guide 4

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In Room Mode, Level, Ambience and Pan controls are linked together to emulate the natural acoustic behaviour

of a room. I.e. when you move an instrument away from the center (listener’s position) to the top right corner,

the following things happen at the same time:

• Level slightly decreases.

• Ambience increases in level (less direct signal, more reﬂections from the walls) and changes in character

to match the surround position as well as the exact distances between listener, instrument and walls.

• Pan moves all the way to the right.

• Front/Rear moves all the way to the front.

You can regard the listener – which in fact is the audio output – as being a surround microphone setup at the

listener position.

< Horizontal Movement

Horizontal movement of Tracks on the Stage will always affect the panning of the Tracks.

Occasionally Tracks may obscure each other on the stage, to select and bring a Track to the front simply click

it’s Track Tab.

Anytime a Track is moved on the Stage the relevant parameter knobs will move to reﬂect the changes.

The Track Mixer

Each Track used in a Style has it’s own Track Mixer containing the most common and useful features you’ll

need to set your Track mix.

To choose a Track to mix just click it’s Track Tab.

The Track Mixer for the snare is displayed.

• You might ﬁnd the Track Solo and Mute buttons useful when balancing your mix.

• Most of the Track Mixer features are just like what you would ﬁnd on a mixing console or in your host

application mixer.

< EQ

Each Track has it’s own three band equalizer. To EQ a Track simply click and hold your left mouse button over

any of the three blue handles in the EQ display. Moving your mouse horizontally adjusts the center frequency

of the equalizer band, vertical movement controls the volume of the frequency area.

Holding the [Alt] key and moving horizontally allows you to deﬁne the Q setting (or range of frequencies

affected) for the middle band of the equalizer.

Control Clicking a blue handle(Mac: [Cmd]-Click) resets the Equalizer band

level to zero.

The EQ On/off button (top left corner) could be useful for comparing the effect

of your equalization on the original signal.