The X-Spat Diagram window

Select X-Spat Diagram in the A&G X-Spat> menu or File >Diagram from the only menu in the Patch bay window, to visualize a flow diagram, which we hope may be useful to dispel possible doubts relating to the configuration of the X-Spat internal patchbay.

Some preliminary considerations: the Patch bay area, with its 34 inputs and 56 outputs, to the left of the diagram, allows the routing of incoming audio signals to any of the available outputs.

For instance:

The eight “to HOST” outputs correspond to the eight firewire channels inputting the computer. The eight channels outputting the “Spatialisation Matrix’, either mixed with the “Insert Returns” or not, can also be directed to the “to HOST” outputs for a possible codification of the Spatialisation in one of the multi-channel encoding formats.

The 8 input channel strip correspond to the 8 inputs of Spatializer and its 8 outputs can be connected to the 8 direct ‘to ROSETTA Option IN’ outputs, which correspond to the analogical or digital Rosetta/800 96 outputs.

The ‘Number of Speakers’ parameter of the area ‘Global Settings’ can be set to a value equal or inferior to 8, and, to actuate a set-up 5.1, this value must be equal to 5. The channel reserved to the subwoofer could be output 4 of ‘to Rosetta Option In’, connected to ‘Send/Out’ of the ‘Sub Mix A’. The Sub Mix A could receive as inputs the 8 channels coming from the host or from ‘Rosetta Option OUT’ itself. This would provide a separate non-Spatialized channel, which would be the result of the mix of all the incoming audio sources that are already spatialized through the Spatialisation Matrix. The 16 ‘Channel Inserts’ can also be used in a similar way in order to have as many separate channels that can be assigned to any ‘physical’ output.

There are also 8 test signals, (really 7 as the condition ‘No Signal’ must also be selectable). It’s advisable to connect any non-used patch bay input to ‘No Signal’. Watch out for possible signal feedbacks, which may happen in the host computer software used. X-Spat’s patch bay is very versatile and powerful and we have tried to eliminate all possible ‘dangerous’ configurations. However, we can’t do anything to avoid wrong external connections.

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