SoundGrid Studio User Guide / Owners Manual
Table Of Contents
- Welcome to SoundGrid Studio
- Part 1: Getting Started
- Part 2: Top Bar
- Part 3: Setup Window
- Setup Window Overview
- Network Controls
- Device Racks: Assigning and Managing Network Devices
- I/O Devices Racks
- I/O Device Racks Displays and Controls
- I/O Devices Menu Items
- SG Connect
- I/O Sharing
- Connected Systems
- System Inventory in Super Systems
- Sharing a Device
- Setting up Device Sharing
- Shared Devices: Clocking Considerations
- Patching Shared Devices
- Patching Shared Output Devices
- Shared and Un-Shared Devices in the Patch
- Removing Shared Devices
- If the Sharing Host Becomes Unavailable
- Share Preamp Control
- Servers
- External Control Devices
- Setting Sample Rate
- Assigning I/O Devices Manually
- Working Offline
- Mixer Settings
- User Interface Settings Section
- Patch Window Sections
- The Patch Grid
- Mixer Layers
- Mixer Channels
- Mixer Layer Modes
- Using Plugins
- Monitor Panel
- INCORPORATING MIDI
- MACKIE CONTROL PROTOCOL
- Setting Up Mackie HUI in a DAW
- Setup Window Overview
- Part 4: Patch Window
- Part 5: Mixer Window
- Appendix
SoundGrid Studio/ User Guide
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Welcome to SoundGrid Studio
SoundGrid is a proven networking tool for connecting audio devices, streaming audio, and offloading plugin
processing. SoundGrid Studio is the application that controls the network that makes all of this possible:
• SoundGrid Studio lets you offload processing from a host computer to a high-speed server. This results in a
huge improvement in DSP, which lets you use many, many more plugins. All you need is a SoundGrid server
and the StudioRack plugin.
• With SoundGrid Studio, you can flexibly assign I/O devices, servers, and drivers to a SoundGrid network. This
enables efficient use of studio resources, since studios can pick and choose which I/Os to use for a specific
job.
• Depending on the configuration and license, SoundGrid Studio incorporates a fully featured 64-channel studio
mixer. This mixer, used in conjunction with the StudioRack plugin, lets you monitor while recording record—
with plugins—with very low latency.
• SoundGrid Studio is a quick way to stream audio between computers.
Since SoundGrid Studio setup is essentially the same (in principal) for all configurations—the smallest to the
largest—we suggest you read the next chapter, “Getting Started,” to help you get everything up and running. Use the
later chapters to learn the details and as a reference. In addition to the table of contents, there’s a sidebar bookmark
tool (on most PDF readers) that will help you navigate quickly through the information and find what you are looking
for.
SoundGrid Studio supports several input devices: touchscreen monitor, touchscreen panel, external controller, and
mouse. These devices may use different terms for input action, so for simplicity, we use common terms such as
“click” to describe all such actions.
When a control or function is described more comprehensively
elsewhere in this user guide, there is a link to that section.