Solid State Logic 4.3 Manual De Usuario

 
 
 
 

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Software drivers 

 
The SSL Soundscape Mixpander comes with Low-latency MME drivers, WDM drivers, ASIO-2 
drivers, DWave drivers and GSIF drivers for Windows 2000 and XP. It can be used with any PC 
based MIDI+Audio sequencer, recording and editing software or other audio applications. 
 
All SSL Soundscape native systems are truly multiclient. This means that you can share your SSL 
Soundscape audio hardware between several different applications. You could for instance run 
Steinberg’s Cubase or Nuendo, Sony’s ACID and Tascam’s Gigastudio simultaneously, with each 
application using a predefined number of the available audio channels. You could also record the 
output of Gigastudio into the audio software via the SSL Soundscape Mixer, along with external 
sources… adding real-time DSP-powered effects and processing as you go along. 
 

Digital mixing, effects and processing 

 
The SSL Soundscape Mixer software runs on the on-board DSP-powered mixing engine of the SSL 
Soundscape Mixpander . The Mixer’s architecture is the same as used for the high end Soundscape 
Digital Audio Workstations, but adapted for the native environment: the “Track” inserts, which 
can be placed anywhere in the Mixer, are available as audio inputs and outputs to Windows audio 
applications such as MIDI+Audio sequencers or software samplers. 
The included Soundscape Audio Toolbox provides some essential building blocks for commercial 
standard mixes, with multi-function dynamics processors (gate, expansion, compression and 
limiting), delay and delay based effects (chorus, flanger) and dither. Optional effects and 
processing plug-ins are available from Solid State Logic and other world renowned developers 
including Wave Mechanics, TC Electronic, Dolby Laboratories Inc., Cedar Audio, Sonic 
Timeworks, Aphex Systems, Arboretum Systems, Spinaudio, Drawmer, and Acuma Labs. 
 

DSP-based processing 

 
PC-based mixers suffer from a certain amount of processing delay, also known as “latency”. This 
may be very small on an expertly configured, modern PC, but gets worse as native effects and 
processors are added in the signal path, so much so that it can be impossible to play an instrument 
and monitor the output in real-time through a software mixer with a few plug-ins. This is why 
most native MIDI+Audio sequencers now include a “plug-in delay compensation” feature. This 
solves the problem in mixing situations, but is by its very nature unusable while recording. 
 
In contrast, the SSL Soundscape Mixer and Soundscape format DSP-powered plug-ins offer a level 
of performance on a par with high-end audio hardware in terms of sound quality and comparable 
to a hardware mixing console in terms of latency (…or absence thereof!). This is a major advantage 
when recording live vocals or instruments. DSP effect plug-ins can be inserted at any point in the 
signal path and the wet signal can be monitored in real-time (i.e. without any annoying processing 
delay) while recording the dry or wet signal, or both, into your chosen application.