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• a "rehearse" button. When this is activated, TB continues to be active

even when playback or recording are running. You can use this to

talk to the artist while playback is running so to coach him or her or

discuss other aspects of the production. When recording, you must

not enable the Rehearsal function, as your microphone signal may

confuse the artist and also the Performer signal is no more in sync.

The basic idea is that the Studio side (producer) can sing along to the

playback for the artist to hear, but the Performer signal will be delayed

in respect to what the studio side hears. VST Connect is not designed

for jamming (playing together in realtime), if talkback or rehearsal are

engaged during playback, one side will hear the other with a delay.

However the studio can record its own signal along with and in perfect

sync to the artist, only the artist can (and should) not hear the studio

during playback/recording to avoid confusing delays.

• a Talkback level rotary control. This is linked to the Control Room VST

Connect Cue mix channel’s Level control, so you can operate either

one to adjust the overall TB level.

• a DIM control. This is linked to the Control Room VST Connect "Talk

Dim" control.

Note

Note that when you engage Talkback during playback or record-

ing, the Control Room also features a "Dim" function in the "Main"

section that you can use to control how much the playback is

"dimmed" (lowered) so to not have it obscure the TB microphone

signal.

2.6 Mixer

Once connected, the VST Connect mixer will show up in the VST Con-

nect editor window. The upper part is used to set up the stereo mix that

you (the engineer) hear and record. This upper part (with the "RECORD-

ING" header) is not visible in the Performer application.

2.6.1 Performer Monitor (Headphone) Mix

The lower part (with the "MONITOR" header) merely controls the head-

phone monitor mix that the artist hears in his or her Performer applica-

tion. This is simply remote-controlling the Performer mixer which can

also be operated by the artist; the idea is, that the engineer can oper-

ate it so that the artist stays hands-free and also does not have to have

a deeper technical understanding as the engineer does - so it’s all like

in the professional recording studio where the artist can concentrate on

his or her performance. In particular this also means that nothing that