<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><div style="direction: ltr;">anyone can use that shitty panel of mBox mAudio ?</div><div style="direction: ltr;"><br></div><br>Envoyé de mon iPad</div><div><br>Le 6 févr. 2016 à 08:40, Chris Belle <<a href="mailto:cb1963@sbcglobal.net">cb1963@sbcglobal.net</a>> a écrit :<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>hey Patrick, have you noticed any difference in performance with USB vs firewire mode on that audio express?</span><br><span></span><br><span></span><br><span>On 2/4/2016 12:05 PM, Patrick Perdue wrote:</span><br><blockquote type="cite"><span>Yeah, the hardware is accessible, however, you still need the software for a few things, like changing clock, sample rate, buffer size, headphone routing, etc. The Audio Express is one of those interfaces you can't override the asio block size with Reaper as you can with most. Fortunately, these things are all accessible in the MOTU Audio Console, the basic control panel for the device, though the MOTU Cue-Mix FX software is not. With the Audio Express, the only things I've not really been able to do are invert the phase of channels, and making channel pairs link their volume controls, neither of which are a big deal to me, personally.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The MOTU MicroBook 2, which is a smaller interface based on the same idea, however, is more of a challenge, as it has far less hardware controls than the Audio Express. For example, the AE can be used as a small 4x4 (technically 4x6, I suppose,) stand-alone mixer away from a computer. Thus, you can route any input to any output all from the front panel, as well as creating submixes for each output within the hardware itself. The only two controls on the MicroBook 2 are input gain (controls either mic or line input, depending on which is selected, also toggles phantom power for the single XLR input,) and another knob that controls either the main or headphone out, depending on which has been toggled. If you want to do any routing, you have to use the inaccessible Cue-Mix FX.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>I eventually resorted to having a sighted friend make some templates for me, as one of the few accessible parts of the software is switching presets.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>The presets are all XML-based, so perhaps with a little time and effort, I could figure out the tags and change what I want.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>For example, by default, with the MicroBook 2, the headphone out is it's own mix and routable output, meaning if you route something to main, it doesn't come across the headphone out. Maybe this is fine if you want two discrete mixes, but in a simple situation where you just want to plug in and go, it's annoying, since you have to change your DAW's output routing. There is an easy (if you can see) way to route things to the headphone mix, of course.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>This is even possible accessibly with the same software and the AE through a menu bar option, but, while the AE and MicroBook 2 use the same software, those options are greyed out, and you have to go to another part of the mixer to accomplish this. I'm not sure why they didn't leave that well enough alone.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>There is also no accessible way to control the dynamics processing in the MicroBook 2. Each channel and mix can have it's own dynamic compressor and parametric EQ. I actually don't think the Audio Express has this, but it's more flexible in every other respect.</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span></span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><span>On 2/4/2016 11:43 AM, Chris Smart wrote:</span><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>At 11:30 AM 2/4/2016, you wrote:</span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>The mark of the unicorn audio express. The hardware is totally</span><br></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite"><span>accessible. 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