From: Jonathan W. <jw...@ph...> - 2008-10-24 04:44:43
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Hi Patrick > > > The Phones assign works, but the Phones selection under the Mix output > > > should technically only be available if Phones is selected in the Phones > > > selection drop-down. According to the manual, when you choose Phones for > > > the Phones setting, this setting makes the headphone jack serve as its own > > > independent output pair (except when running at 176.4 or 192 kHz). As it is > > > currently, if you select Phones under the Mix output, the Phones assign > > > setting has no effect. This is a minor issue and may be kludgy to make 100% > > > correct, so I'm happy to live with it as is. > > > > I'll look into this - it's actually a point of difference with other > > MOTUs. On the Traveler the contents of the "phones" stream from the PC > > is always delivered to the phones. If you have other mixes assigned to > > phones as well then they are mixed. > > > > So let me get this straight. On the 896HD, if any of the mix buses are > > assigned to "phones" then the "phones assign" control is ignored. > > Yes, but I'm not sure if that's correct or not. If the phones is a separate > mix bus from the actual phones output, then I could see that it could be > possible (though probably not very useful) to setup the mix buses to output > to the phones bus, but have the phones output monitoring something else. Sorry, I was somewhat unclear about what my previous comment referred to. I was talking about the actual hardware's behaviour. If the *hardware* is set up such that a mix bus is sent to the phones, then my understanding from your previous comments (quoted above) is that the 896HD sends only that mix bus to the physical headphones - anything else that might be assigned by the "phones assign" control is "blocked" by the hardware and doesn't show up in the physical headphones. Is that what happens? Out of interest, how does Cuemix behave under other systems? What happens if you use the front panel controls independently of the computer? > Thanks for the peak hold time fix. Not a problem. Regards jonathan |