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
Part 3: Setup Window
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Assigning I/O Devices Manually
1. Click the Device Menu icon in the upper right corner of an I/O device rack slot to open the Devices menu. All
devices available to this SoundGrid system are displayed here. Devices that are currently unavailable are grayed out.
2. Assign hardware and software devices to device slot. The sequence is unimportant.
3. Select an available device. It will appear in the rack. If this is the only device in the rack, it is by default the clock
master for the SOE network and its icon text is blue. Now that there is a master clock for the SOE network, the
Network Link and Speed indicators in the Top Bar are no longer red.
4. Once an I/O has been assigned to a computer, no other computer can access it until it is released by that user or
shared. To release an I/O from your computer, select Remove from the menu.
5. Add more devices in the same manner. They will be defined as clock slaves and their icon text will be green. To
designate one of these added devices as the clock master, choose Set Master from that device’s drop-down
menu. The original clock master becomes a slave.
6. If you need to adjust preamps or otherwise configure the I/O, click the gear button beneath the icon to
open the I/O device’s control panel. The SOE master can be locked to a system outside of the SOE network
(such as a mixing console). Use the device’s control panel to configure its sync with the outside device or system.
Even though this device is a slave to an outside source, it remains the SOE master.
7. I/O channels of all assigned devices—hardware and software—will appear in the Patch, Channel, and Mixer
windows.