M-Audio 2626 manual ProFire, User Guide

Useful Tips and Shortcuts:

• The input channel numbers (listed along the bottom of the mixer) can be renamed by clicking on them. For example, if a bass guitar is routed to input channel 8, you can click the “8” at the bottom and rename the channel to “Bass.” Note that changing a channel name only affects the labeling in the DSP Mixer and does not affect the way that input appears in your computer’s audio software.

• By alt-clicking(option-click for Mac users) the mute, solo, or link buttons, you can quickly mute, solo, or link all of the DSP Mixer’s 18 input channels at once. This is also a handy feature in situations where you have muted/ soloed/linked multiple channels and need to quickly unmute/unsolo/unlink them. Note that the mute buttons for the input channels (just above the faders) and the mute buttons for the aux sends (on the right side of the mixer) operate independently of each other.

• A fader or aux send knob can be set to unity gain by either double-clicking or alt-clicking it (option-click for Mac users).

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It is important to note that any changes made to the DSP Mixer will only affect what is audible from the mixer’s outputs—the DSP Mixer does not affect the signals that are sent to the audio application for recording. For example, if you are recording a vocalist and he/she tells you to turn up the vocal track so they can hear themselves better, you can increase the vocalist’s microphone channel in the DSP Mixer. This will make the vocal part louder in the vocalist’s headphones, but it will still be recorded into the audio application at the volume determined by the front panel Gain Adjustment Knob (4).

The DSP Mixer is set up like a standard mixing console: There are 18 input channels, each with its own volume fader, pan and aux send knobs, solo ( ), and mute ( ) buttons, as well as a master output section with its own pair of faders, and mute buttons.

A pair of channels can be linked together by clicking the link icon ( ) between the two channels. Linking channels allows you to adjust mute, solo, aux, and fader settings simultaneously by modifying parameters on either one of the linked channels.

NOTE: Linking two channels will not have any effect on their pan or channel input selection. These settings are always made on a per-channel basis.

The DSP mixer features multi-segment meters to show input channel levels

(directly above each channel) and main mixer output levels (at the top right of the mixer). The peak hold indication time as well as pre/post fader metering operation can be set from the Settings tab of the Control Panel. Finally, the clip indicators can be reset by clicking on the meter itself.

The signal source for each of the DSP Mixer’s 18 input channels can be selected from 52 possible signal streams

(26 input streams and 26 software return streams). Click the downward arrow ( ) and make a selection from the drop-down menu that appears. If an exclamation point ( ) is displayed in place of a downward arrow, the currently selected stream is disabled because of S/MUX operation or by user preference. Grayed out and italicized drop-down selections are also disabled and will not stream audio

if selected. To resolve this issue, select another input source that is not deactivated, reduce the sample rate of the interface, or increase the number of active input ports or software returns if possible (the reduction of input ports and software returns is covered in detail in the “Why are channels disabled?” text box on the next page.

As stated earlier, setting or adjusting the DSP Mixer will not affect the signal that is recorded into the audio application. For example, you’ll still be able to record a channel while its corresponding DSP Mixer channel is muted. You won’t hear the part through the DSP mixer as it is being recorded, but it will still record into your audio application and play back properly.