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I am running HW6 on a PC and I use a MOTU Ultralite Mk4 as my audio interface; I have six stereo pairs of speakers (i.e. 12 channels), so I run the digital fibreoptic output through a Behringer DAC to get the extra channels. I also have an SVS powered subwoofer, and the input for this is the headphones output from the Ultralite. This has been working fine until today.
I have been away from home for a few days and I shut everything down first. Today I thought the pedal seemed a bit weak when I was playing and I realised that I wasn't getting any output from the subwoofer. I have traced the problem to the mixer in the Ultralite but I have been unable to resolve it.
There is a web-based interface controlling the internal mixer of the Ultralite, with several pages. The routing page shows a grid with inputs along the top and outputs on the left side. You can route an input to a specific output by clicking on the square where they intersect, which lights up. You can route one input to many outputs, but not the other way round. At the top and left edges there are circles which light up when there is a signal, so that you can check how it is working.
Each input (from the PC) is connected to its appropriate output (to the speakers) as indicated by a diagonal run of squares. In addition there is a pair of inputs and outputs called "main" and a stereo pair of outputs called "phones". The router had the Main input routed to the Phones output. However, when I played something none of the lights on the main and phones channels lit up (the other channels lit up as expected). If I clicked to route one of the other channels to the phones, then the subwoofers worked as expected, but of course I want a mix-down of the whole organ, not just one or two channels which would not include every note.
According to the manual, if you want to mix down several inputs to a single output you need to route the signal to the mixer, which I think I have done, but still nothing seems to be reaching the Main channel or any others that I have tried.
I am not very used to using mixers and I don't know what I am doing wrong, nor why it should have stopped working when it was fine previously. Has anyone got any ideas?
I have been away from home for a few days and I shut everything down first. Today I thought the pedal seemed a bit weak when I was playing and I realised that I wasn't getting any output from the subwoofer. I have traced the problem to the mixer in the Ultralite but I have been unable to resolve it.
There is a web-based interface controlling the internal mixer of the Ultralite, with several pages. The routing page shows a grid with inputs along the top and outputs on the left side. You can route an input to a specific output by clicking on the square where they intersect, which lights up. You can route one input to many outputs, but not the other way round. At the top and left edges there are circles which light up when there is a signal, so that you can check how it is working.
Each input (from the PC) is connected to its appropriate output (to the speakers) as indicated by a diagonal run of squares. In addition there is a pair of inputs and outputs called "main" and a stereo pair of outputs called "phones". The router had the Main input routed to the Phones output. However, when I played something none of the lights on the main and phones channels lit up (the other channels lit up as expected). If I clicked to route one of the other channels to the phones, then the subwoofers worked as expected, but of course I want a mix-down of the whole organ, not just one or two channels which would not include every note.
According to the manual, if you want to mix down several inputs to a single output you need to route the signal to the mixer, which I think I have done, but still nothing seems to be reaching the Main channel or any others that I have tried.
I am not very used to using mixers and I don't know what I am doing wrong, nor why it should have stopped working when it was fine previously. Has anyone got any ideas?