Fixed Inserts

Select the Fixed Inserts tab to set the options for the Fixed Inserts.

In the Fixed Insert Points area, you can assign insert points to fader channels. You can see all configured fader modules of this virtual mixer in the list. In the Edit Insert Point area, you can assign a pre-fader signal to the selected fader. You can assign inserts to stereo or mono signals, the procedures necessary for that are a bit different.

Follow these steps to include an external signal processing for a stereo signal:

1. Connect the input of an external device to an output of the corresponding DHD device. Connect the output of the external device to the input of the DHD device. Remember which in- and outputs of the DHD device you have used.
2. In the project tree, select <Device>/DSP Frame I/O. Find the input that is connected to the output of the external device. Name this input signal distinctively, for example FromExt. With this name, the signal is shown in the Audio Sources window in the Inputs section. Find the output that is connected to the input of the external device. Assign a name, for example ToExt (see also DSP Frame I/O – Configuring the DSP Frame).
3. In the project tree, select <Device>/Audio/Output Routing. Find the output that you named ToExt. Assign the pre-fader signal to this output that you want to edit (see also Output Routing).
4. In the project tree, select <Device>/<Mixer>. Select the Fixed Inserts tab. Select the fader you want edit the insert. Click Select and choose the return signal of the external device FromExt as input signal for this fader. The pre-fader signal is now routed via the external device before entering the fader.

Follow these steps to include an external signal processing for a mono signal:

1. Connect the input (mono) of the external device to an output of the DHD device. Connect the output of the external device with an input of the DHD device. Remember which in- and outputs of the DHD device you have used.
2. In the project tree, select <Device>/DSP Frame I/O. Find the input that is connected to the output of the external device. Name this input signal distinctively, for example FromExt. With this name, the signal is shown in the Audio Sources window in the Inputs section. Find the output that is connected to the input of the external device. Assign a name, for example ToExt. Make sure to configure the input and output as Mono in the Mono/Stereo column. Please also check the correct assignment of the signals on the connector of the device (see also DSP Frame I/O – Configuring the DSP Frame).
3. In the project tree, select <Device>/Audio/Output Functions. Create a new output function in which you sum up the desired pre-fader signal to a mono signal. (See Output Functions).
4. In the project tree, select <Device>/Audio/Output Routing. Find the output that you named ToExt. Assign the output function you have just created to this output as a signal source (see Output Routing).
5. Create two additional output functions and name them <Name>L and <Name>R. As input for the output functions, use the signal FromExt, which has been processed by the external device.
6. In the project tree, select <Device>/<Mixer>. Select the Fixed Inserts tab. Select the fader you want to define the insert for. Click Select and choose the output functions you just have defined as input signal for this fader. The pre-fader signal is now first summed up to a mono signal, then routed via the external device and split on two channels before getting to the fader.