Routing audio from your sequencer to your Soundscape DAW
The Mixpander streaming channels are available as inputs and outputs to all Windows applications. This is how they are recognized in Steinberg’s Cubase:
The numbering starts from Stream 17 because in this case there is also a Mixtreme in the host PC, which uses streams 1 to 16. Note that while a Mixtreme can be used for audio streaming between the host PC and the Soundscape DAW, it connects to one or two of the DAW’s TDIF ports, whereas a Mixpander connects to the DAW’s expansion port, leaving all TDIF connections free and increasing the total input/output count. Mixtreme is recommended for native setups.
In the following example, a backing track prepared in Steinberg’s Cubase includes a noisy sample recorded from vinyl. While vocal parts are recorded to Soundscape, the noisy sample is routed to a Cedar Auto-dehiss mixer element in order to control the noise with the best algorithm available for that purpose. Synchronization is via MIDI Time Code with Soundscape set to Master.
With 16 streaming channels per Mixpander, it is easy to route individual tracks and submixes from any audio+MIDI sequencer to the Soundscape Mixer, along with virtual instruments, while using the Soundscape DAW’s physical inputs and outputs to record or to integrate high-quality external effects processors.
You can think of the streaming channels as 16 extra inputs and outputs linked to the native world… added to its 28 inputs and 32 outputs on TDIF, AES-EBU and analog connectors, this makes Soundscape 32 a 44-input, 48-output system. And remember that you can run multiple Soundscape DAWs and Mixpanders as a single system!
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