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Using MBOX Studio
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Setting Up Pro Tools for Headphone Mixes
MBOX Studio provides 8 channels of inputs from Pro Tools in the Software Input section. The following example suggests one way
you can configure Pro Tools signal routing for maximum flexibility when creating and managing headphone mixes.
To configure Pro Tools for headphone mixes:
1 Include an “everything” mix by making sure your stereo Pro Tools mix is assigned to MBOX Studio Internal 1–2. This could be from
an Auxiliary Input that is submixing all Pro Tools audio, or directly from each Pro Tools track output.
2 Next, use Pro Tools Sends and Auxiliary Inputs to set up submixes for up to 6 mono or up to 3 stereo sends that need to be individually
adjustable in each different mix. For example, to create an Auxiliary Input for a stereo submix of all drums do the following:
• Select all the drum tracks.
• Hold Option+Shift (Mac) or Alt+Shift (Windows) and click an available Send selector on any of the drum tracks.
• Choose
new track...
• The New Track dialog opens pre-configured to create one new stereo Auxiliary Input track. Enter a custom name for the new track
(such as “Drums cue”) and click OK.
Pro Tools adds a new Send to each selected track, creates a new stereo bus, creates a new Auxiliary Input, and automatically assigns
its input to the newly created bus.
3 Assign the new Auxiliary Input track’s output to an available MBOX Send (such as MBOX Studio Internal 3–4 for a stereo send, or
an available sub-path such as MBOX Studio Internal 3 for a mono send).
4 For each track (each drum track in this example) click the newly added send to open its control window, then raise the fader to set
how much of the track signal is sent to the Auxiliary Input.
5 Raise the Auxiliary Input fader as needed to send sufficient signal back to MBOX Studio.
6 In MBOX Control, make sure to select the desired output mix (such as Headphone 1) then raise the appropriate Software Input fader
(such as Internal 7) to include its Pro Tools source audio in the selected output mix.
7 Repeat for other instruments, submixes, or tracks.
Creating a new stereo Aux Input in the New Tracks dialog
Assigning track output to an available MBOX Send (shown at left) and the Send window (shown at right)
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