Some newb q's

[steveng57]

Hi all,

Just bought a new 896mk3. I must confess to having a lot of trouble understanding it, it seems to have a different "philosophy" than other hardware I have used before (mostly m-audio).

I am having trouble with some concepts I am hopeing you might be able to help me with...thanks in advance.

First is volume. The output from this thing is off the charts. I have 3 stereo pairs of monitors, six Mackie HR824 speakers in all, hooked up to the MAIN OUTS, ANALOG 1-2, ANALOG 3-4. Playing Windows Meida Player will blow the doors off the neighbors houce with the output set to anything higher than 2. If I go to the output tab in in the CueMix FX console I can of course put "MONITOR" on that output and use the master volume to turn it down. But this seems rather odd. My first question is where do I set the output levels for an individual speaker pair? I would like to be able to set one pair at level X, another at level Y, and the third at level Z for example. The placement of my monitors requires that they have differing volumes.

Second question is how do I route software inputs to more than one output? The website seemed to inidcate that this was easily doable. I can get Windows Media Player to come from my MAIN OUTS, or the ANALOG outs, but not out of both at the same time. In my DAW software (SONAR), I can do this of course, but I would have thought this would also be doable with the basic unit and with the Cuemix control panel.

Last but not least, is there a tutorial on how MIXES work? I RTFM, but it wasn't much help. I take it these are akin to "AUX" buses used by m-audio. Are all MIX BUSES active all the time, unless the output is set to "Disabled"? Why not allow assigment to more than one output on a bus?

[wo1]

second for this questions

anyone ?

[therealbigd]

for the first one, there is no way to make them quieter. Why not turn the volume knobs on the speakers down?

for the second, you can't do this outside of the DAW... but why would you want to? I don't sit watching DVD's referencing off each set of monitors just to check...

I don't quite understand your last one, I'm not an M-Audio user. But it sounds like you're questioning the way in which the software is written. There's not much I, or anybody else on here, can do about that!

Hope that helps!