

- #FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL HOW TO#
- #FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL INSTALL#
- #FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL SOFTWARE#
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#FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL INSTALL#
Do not install near any heat sources such as radiators, heat registers, stoves, or other apparatus (including amplifiers) that produce heatĨ. Then just watch everything else you can find on MC and it'll all start making sense soon enough.7. I'd say first go through the Sweetwater playlist on the MC. That leaves you to control the monitor mixing entirely from Mix Control. However, when I finally took the time to learn everything I could and really understand how it works, it was well worth the effort.Īlso important is to disable input monitoring/echo in Garageband so it doesn't duplicate the stuff you are recording to its output, only the parts being played back. I just found something I could work with, and left it there for a while.
#FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL HOW TO#
I went through a stage of not really knowing how to set up Mix Control with my Liquid 56, DAW and other hardware. Then you can have different mixes for your monitors and your headphones and even have effects sends or inserts routed to external hardware. Learn how to use Mix control properly and you can mix any of your analog inputs with the outputs from your DAW and route that mix to any outputs. I don't know GarageBand at all, but it's mostly down to how you set up Mix Control, which allows multiple, different mixes to be assigned to different outputs on your Pro40. Send them an email, and they WILL answer your question. If none of this is helpful - then contact Focusrite's Support Online - they are EXCELLENT.

Also, the Pro40 has 2 headphone outputs with their own separate volume and mute controls. That really shouldn't matter for Garageband or any DAW. The XLR outputs on the Pro40 should work for your monitors, or just the normal outputs. On the Pro40, you'll have to press the "instrument" button for the channel that the Torpedo is plugged into. My experience with Garageband has always been with just one channel when recording. Whatever is going into the Torpedo, be it your amp or the simulations, needs to be connected to one of the 8 Pro40 inputs. So if I wanted to use an outboard Torpedo coming into my Pro40 I would connect it with some regular unbalanced TR instrument cables. The difference is that the ElevenRack is also an Interface. I have an ElevenRack, which seems similar to what the Torpedo is: an amp simulator. So you really do not need to even have Mix Control as part of your situation (for Garageband).
#FOCUSRITE SAFFIRE MIXCONTROL SOFTWARE#
I'm no engineer, but.the purpose of the Focusrite Mix Control software is for when you are recording vocals or something - and it allows you to monitor without any latency. I think that GarageBand is really not meant to be doing this sort of thing, as it is one of those programs where the I/O stuff is pretty much your interface. To answer your question: How does one set up a FS for GarageBand so that both my FS MixControl directs signal from my TL to my GB DAW and also feeds signal from GB through my studio monitors or headphones?

Now to do what you're talking about, particularly with the SPIDF stuff and Mix Control (the software that comes with the Pro40) can get pretty confusing! So anything that you want showing up in your DAW has to go through the Pro40. I use Garageband for demo drums, but ProTools for everything else.
