Specifications

Recording
Studio 32 Reference Manual
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Monitoring MIDI Virtual Tracks
If you are using a MIDI sequencer, the tracks being played “live” from sound
modules in synchronization with the tape are effectively the same as additional
tracks on tape –– which is why they are called “virtual tracks.”
Synthesizers and drum machines are normally plugged into the LINE IN jacks of
the channels, and can be monitored on the Channel FADER or MONITOR 1/2 , using
the procedures above. Since the point of virtual tracks is not to use up a track of
tape, just make sure that when the synthesizer is on the Channel FADER, that its
Group Assign switches are OFF, so it doesn’t get recorded. Assign virtual tracks to
L/R only.
If you are using Monitors and Channels simultaneously for tape return and virtual
track monitoring, the L/R mix should be used for the performers’ headphone mix,
not MON 1/2.
1 Set the Control Room source to L/R (all CR Select buttons up).
2 Press the LINK TO L/R switch. This mixes the MON 1/2 mix onto the L/R buss.
3 Set the HEADPHONES SOURCE switch to CR (up).
4 Set the MONITOR 1/2 SOURCE switches for the channels with virtual tracks
to MIC/LN (down).
5 Set the FADER SOURCE switches to TAPE (down).
6 Set the MONITOR 1/2 MASTER LEVEL control to its nominal position (about “2
o’clock”). Adjust all other levels to taste. If you want to turn all the virtual
tracks up or down in the mix simultaneously, use the MONITOR 1/2 MASTER
LEVEL control.