User Manual

Patching Signal Paths
While bus creation and assignment is a straightforward way of creating a cascade of routing
from tracks to Subs to Mains, sometimes you need to create more specific signal paths. For
example, if you need to record audio to a track, you need to patch the audio input you want to
record from to the track you want to record to. This, and many other scenarios, are
accomplished using the Patch Input/Output window.
Using the Patch Input/Output Window
Choosing Fairlight > Patch Input/Output opens the Patch Input/Output window, which can be
displayed in either Icon or List view. This window is split into two halves, with the left half
containing whichever Audio Source controls you choose, and the right half containing
whichever Audio Destinations you choose. In the following screenshot, the Audio Inputs from a
Scarlett2i2 USB audio interface are shown, while the available Track Inputs are shown to
the right.
The Patch Input/Output Window showing Audio Inputs and Track Inputs
Creating a Patch
By default, the Patch Input/Output window shows the available Audio Inputs as the Source, and
the Track Inputs as the destination. This makes it easy to patch whatever audio source (such as
a microphone connected to a USB audio interface) to a specific audio track of the timeline to
prepare for recording. Patching and unpatching a source to a destination is straightfoward.
To patch a source to a destination:
1 Choose a type of source from the Audio Source drop-down menu at the upper left-
hand side of the window.
2 Click the button or list item of the source you want to patch on the left side of the Patch
Input/Output window.
3 Choose a destination from the Audio Destination drop-down menu at the upper right-
hand side of the window.
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