Instruction/ maintenance manual of the product PRO TOOLS MIX 51 Avid Technology
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Mix 5 1 Surr oun d Panning an d Mixing p lug-in fo r Pro To ols ™ Plug-In Users Gui de Ve rsion 1.1 for Pro Tools HD/LE/M-Pow er ed System s on Macintosh OS X and Windows XP Cre ate d By Ne yr in ck San Francisco, CA US A www.neyrinc k.co m info@neyri nck.
Table Of Contents Chapter 1 Introduction Welcome System Requirements Important Latency I nformation Chapter 2 Installation Installing Mix 51 Authorizing Mix 51 Removing Expir ed Plug-Ins Chapter 3 Qui.
Chapter 1 Introduction We lc om e T o Mix 51 Mix 51 is a suite of 5.1 surround panning and mixing plug-ins fo r Pro Tools L E and M -Powered systems with six or m ore outputs such as Mbox 2 Pro, 002, 003, and M-Audi o interfa ces such as the D elta 1010 or FireWir e 410 or f or use with stereo output systems su ch as Mbox connected to a 5.
such as 00 2, 003, or Mbox 2 Pro or a st ereo inte rface connected to a 5.1 Pro Logic II decodin g system. Importan t Laten cy Information Mix 51 u ses the host CPU to perf orm the surround panning and mixing. It introduces latency that is equivalent to one buffer of audio based on the Pro Tools H/W Buffer Size.
Chapter 2 Install ation Insta lli ng Mix 51 Installer s can be downloaded f rom the Neyrinck website ( www.neyrinck.com ) Installation steps are essentially the same, regardless of the bundle, package, or system you pu rchase. Installa tion To in stal l Mix 51: 1.
Chapter 3 Quick Start G uide Ov er vi e w This sectio n guides you through steps to create a Pro Tools session that will pan one audio track to a 5.1 main bu s and a quad rev erb effect send which will be monitored o ut six channels of you r Pro Tools system.
purpose is to provide outputs that can be routed into other tracks, as we will see. Connect Th e Outputs Create five stereo auxiliary tracks and cha nge the tr ack names to: Dialog Front, Dialog C LFE, Dialog Rear, Reverb Front, and R everb Rear, respectively.
Chapter 4 Surround Mix er Pl ug - In Ov er vi e w The Surro und Mixer is im plemented as an RT AS plug-in and can be placed on any mono or stereo track. Because a sin gle instance of the Surround Mix er plug-in manages all Mix 51 su rround inputs and o u tputs in a Pro Tools se ssion, it is not necessar y to insert more than one Surround Mix er.
D esc ri pti on a n d Us e Of Contr ols The Surro und Mixer user interface provide s master output c ontrol of the three 5.1 busses and three q uad- send bu sses.
Chapter 5 Surround Pa nner Plug - In Ov er vi e w The Surro und Panner plug-in operates as a n RTAS pl ug -in on mono and stereo tracks. It will simultaneously pa n to one of the 5.1 channel main busses and to one of the quad-channel effect send busses.
The mute buttons will silence the track ʼ s con tribution to the m ain bus and/or send bus yo u have chosen. The so lo but ton will only allow the audio through for this track and any other soloed tracks. If you want other tracks com ing throu gh the Mix 51 mixer, then they n eed to be soloed also.
channel only, you should use the LFE pan ner plug-i n. Defau lt/F ine-Tune Opt-click ( OS X) or alt -click (WinXP) to reset any control to the default position. Ho ld down the cmd key (OS X) or the control key (WinXP) to perform fine-tuned adjustments.
Chapter 6 LFE S e nd Plug- In Ov er vi e w The LFE Send plug-in operates as an RTAS plug -in in mono or multi- mono for st ereo tracks. Its purpose is to allow you to send a track directly to the LFE channel without having to also mix th e signal into the main L/C/R/Ls/Rs outp uts.
Chapter 7 Automation Ov er vi e w All of the M ix 51 parameters can be a utomated using standard Pro Tools plug-in automation. Click the “auto” butt on in the Mix 51 plug-in window header and add the controls you would like to be aut omated.
Panner wi th all con trols in “w ri te” aut om atio n e nable d mode Thus, to migrate the Left-Right panning a utomation of Mix 51, you must c opy it into the Front Position and Rear Position pan automation tracks of the Pro Tools panner. To do so, select the track automation for the Mix 51 Left -Right pan contro l and c opy it.
Chapter 8 Pro Logic ™ II Movie Mode Monitoring Ov er vi e w Mix 51 p rovides a stereo, matrix encoded, LtRt outp ut that is compat ible with Dol by Pro Logic II decoding systems. This allows you to use a stereo Pro Tools LE system with a 5.1 home theater system fo r monitoring.
menu which shows t he various Mix 51 outputs available ( fro m each of the Main Bus outputs and Send Bus out puts). Panne r or M ix er N ot G e tt ing a ny S igna l The track must not be set to “no .
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