Hello vpo-organist,
vpo-organist wrote:It would help me if someone could explain to me step for step how to assign a separate IR file for a stereo setup for different divisions.
To expand on Mark's reply, here are some step-by-step instructions for you for mixing ranks together by divisions, assigning separate reverbs to those mixed divisions, then further mixing the divisions (with their reverbs applied) down to a single stereo output: (These instructions assume that your other audio routing settings are at their defaults.)
- Load the relevant organ.
- Decide which of the available 8 mixer presets (which are global) you want to dedicate for the purpose. (We do plan to increase the number in the future, so that you could potentially dedicate a distinct mixer preset to each organ if you wished.) Let's say you choose to use mixer preset 2.
- Go to '
Organ settings | Organ preferences | Audio mixer preset' and select mixer preset 2, thus configuring the organ to use that preset. OK the screen.
- Now open the '
General settings | Audio mixer' screen.
- Find '
Mxr prst 2: Mstr mix bus 1 stereo mix 1 (main/recording)' in the left-hand bus list. In the right-hand pane, make sure that your desired audio device stereo channel pair is selected, so that you will be able to hear the mixed output that will be fed to the bus. (Don't assign an impulse directly to this bus, since we will instead be assigning the reverbs to per-division buses below.)
- Now, in the left-hand list of mixer buses, expand the '
Advanced items' node.
- Let's say we'll use primary bus 0031 for division 1, 0032 for division 2, etc., so scroll down the bus list to find '
Mxr prst 2: prmry bus 0031'. In the right-hand pane, name the bus something like '
Division 1' (or 'Great', or whatever you like, for representing that division, although it might be useful to keep the names generic in case you want to use the same set-up for several different organs which might have different division names). Make sure that no device channels are selected for the bus (since you'll be mixing it down to your main stereo output, instead of sending it to speakers directly). Also make sure that '
Sends: to master mix buses: 1 stereo mix 1 (main/recording)' is still ticked (as it is by default). For '
Impulse response reverb' select the reverb that you want to apply to this division.
- Repeat the last step for each of the other divisions that you plan to use (using buses 0032, 0033, and onwards), naming them '
Division 2', '
Division 3', etc., and assigning the desired reverbs to each.
- Now open the '
General settings | Audio mixer bus groups screen. To keep things tidy, let's say we'll use group 0031 for division 1, group 0032 for division 2, and so on. Hence scroll down the left-hand group list to find '
Mxr prst 2: bus grp 0031'. In the right-hand pane, name it '
Division 1' (for example). In the lower part of the right-hand pane, make sure that mixer bus 0031 is ticked for it, and no others. You should see that mixer bus 0031 is named '
Division 1', since you named it that a few steps ago. Hence you will now have configured group 0031 to contain just bus 0031, so that all pipes for any ranks that you route to this group will play through just that one mixer bus (bus 0031, to which you have assigned your desired reverb for this division).
- Repeat the last step for each of the other divisions that you plan to use (using groups 0032, 0033, and onwards), naming them '
Division 2', '
Division 3', etc., putting bus 0032 in group 0032, bus 0033 in group 0033, and so on.
- Now open the '
Organ settings | Rank routing ...' screen. In the left-hand rank list, highlight all ranks for the first division. In the right-hand pane, for '
Rank output perspective 1 (front 1/main): Destination mixer bus group' select group 0031. You should see that group 0031 is named '
Division 1', since you named it that a few steps ago.
- Repeat the last step for the organ's other ranks, assigning them to the appropriate groups according to their divisions.
You will then have a unique group set up for each division, with that group containing a unique mixer bus for the division, with the desired reverb assigned, and the whole lot will be mixing down to the main stereo output (master mix bus 1), and with the each division's ranks routed to its group (and thus to its mixer bus, which has its reverb assigned.)
Edit: P.S. For other people who like to assign different divisions to different pairs of speakers, the above instructions apply equally, except that you would select the desired device channels for the divisions' primary buses (for bus 0031 select your device channels for division 1, for bus 0032 select the device channels for division 2, etc.), instead of for the main stereo mix, and you wouldn't necessarily assign any reverbs (unless you wanted to).
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.