Groundbreaking: Route Jr.

[Shayne White]

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At long last (at least it seems to me) I'm finally pleased to announce the release of my new advanced mixer, Route Jr. (info on Sr. below). It has several unique features which I'll discuss in a moment. Suffice it to say, I'm very proud of my new mixer, and I sincerely hope you guys all enjoy it. It's what we've all been waiting for for a long time!! I'll explain the basic architecture:

There are sixteen input channels. I supposed I should have tried twenty-four, but that would have made things far more difficult. Each channel has a volume control, a pan control, four insert slots, a VU meter, a mute button, and a "Send to Main Mix" button. It also has three bus sends.

There are six stereo (!) busses. The mixer is entirely stereo all the way through, no mono/stereo switches. There are two bus "layers" with three busses in each layer: the "A" busses and the "B" busses. All the busses have the same features as the channels. The "A" busses have two bus sends each, and the "B" busses have no sends. Why? Read on.

In an attempt to steal Sonar's Universal Bus Architecture, I made the bus "layers". What this means is that each channel can be sent to the "A" busses and the "B" busses. The "A" busses can be sent to the "B" busses, and the "B" busses are the last layer. Each bus send has a switch that allows you to choose which bus the send should send to. This allows for a highly advanced routing system, the like of which has only been seen so far in John Bowen's Solaris synthesizer. (Thanks John for the inspiration!!)

Not only can every channel send to every bus, but each bus has its own dedicated input accessible in the routing window of SCOPE. In addition each bus has its own dedicated output as well.

The most innovative feature is the pre/post options. Each bus send has a pre/post button with THREE settings. The first is pre-insert, pre-volume/pan. The second is post-insert, pre-volume/pan. The third is post-insert, post-volume/pan. This is a feature NO OTHER MIXER ON THE PLANET has as far as I know. Why no one has thought of it before I can't guess! There's a dialog box in the mixer that you can bring up that tells you which colors of the buttons are which options.

It's late at night, so I hope I've made myself clear! When you play around with the mixer you should be able to figure out how it works.

It takes up a little more DSP power than I'd like, but thankfully you can turn off EVERY COMPONENT that you're not using to save to DSP power.

Route Sr....well, my original concept was to have three layers of busses with six busses in each layer. That got far too complicated after a while. If there's enough demand I may finish up Route Sr. (same architecture and design as Route Jr.) some time in the future.

OK, I think that covers everything...special thanks to J9k and John Bowen for their support and advice!

I hope you all have lots of fun with this device!!!

Shayne

P.S. Everything is automatable. I've also included in the Zip file a font I'm using.
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[Immanuel]

Nice ideas. Nice colors. This will be a nice addition to the Scope mixer park. It is nice to have different flavours to choose from

Thanks for sharing.

[cannonball]

hi

thanks for this great new mixing console

in rhe afternoon i''l try to make a song with it

alessandro

[alfonso]

Hi Shayne, great device!

I noticed a thing though, I can't grab the open surface on the screen. I'm not on sdk now but I think is something related to the "change position" ability or something like that...due to my work it's some time I'm not using sdk...

asap I'll see and tell you...

thanks!

[alfonso]

Sorry it seems that sometimes I can move it and sometimes not....I must check better

[bizarre]

Thanks Shayne, can't wait to try it

[borg]

congrats shayne! this is a real nice mixer! it's really a joy working with this 'deep' yet 'simple' mixer.
it was real early in the morning when i stopped playing around, so things got a bit unclear... noticed something with the mute buttons and sound still flowing through (self oscillating interpole as insert)... if i remember correctly, i had to turn off the channel... is it meant to be like this? i'll look into it later.

anyway... veryverynice, inspirational/functional. keep it up!

[kwild]

Yeah,your mixer is amazing!
But,are u thinking to develope a 24 channels version with the opportunity to switch channels from stereo to mono?
I think a mixer like that will be a great replacement for the STM mixers series.
Regards and good work,mate!
;O)

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[kperry]

This is absolutely fantastic as it's got exactly what I've been looking for in a SCOPE-based mixer for a really good monitoring set-up.

It is very CPU heavy though - any chance of it being optimised (my pretty basic monitoring configuration takes up 3 DSPs just about completely)?

And - while I'm making suggestions - some mono channels would be very good too (I know I can route to both sides of a stereo channel, but I dislike that on aesthetic grounds ).

[Yogimeister]

Sweet !!!

Cant wait to check it out (The Stereo and Multi-Level Busses are something I can really use ...


Thanks!