User`s guide

Duet – User’s Guide
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Low Latency mixing - continued
By routing the hardware input directly to the hardware output and mixing in playback as
shown in Figure B, it’s possible to provide the vocalist a headphone monitoring signal with
a much shorter delay.
First, the signal being recorded (in this case, a vocal mic) is split just after the A/D stage
and routed to both the software applicaton for recording and directly back to the hardware
outputs without going through the latency-inducing software; this creates a low latency path
from mic to headphones. Next, a stereo mix of playback tracks is routed to the low latency
mixer and combined with the hardware input(s). This allows the performer to hear himself
without a confusing delay while listening to playback tracks in order to record overdubs.
Note that the software application’s mixer is used to set a stereo mix of playback tracks
while the low latency mixer is used to set the balance between the stereo playback mix and
the hardware inputs.
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Figure 2
Figure B