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Feature Request: Add speaker toggle/selection functionality for multiple outputs interfaces (1824c)

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asked Nov 24, 2022 in Hardware Integration / Remote Control by musicsamurai (800 points)
recategorized Nov 27, 2022 by musicsamurai
Hello,

Anyone knows if it's possible to connect additional speakers to the 1824c card and to be able to switch between them in a click of a button?
 
Owning PreSonus 1824c, the Unversal Control/StudioOne 6 cannot be configured in such a way, at least from my experiments:

In order to switch speakers I need to manually mute the main output and redirect the output to alternate output.
 

It would a nice feature to add to Studio 1824c / StudioOne, a simple way to switch/toggle the speakers, while mute the other outputs.
 

I'll be happy to hear your workaround switching speakers (macro/script/etc...)

Thanks alot!

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answered Jul 21, 2023 by teqnotic (670 points)
I would also like a speaker selection option on the Listen Bus channel.  Perhaps toggle between 4 different speakers and enable/disable a sub woofer.
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answered Jul 22, 2023 by mbmmusic (580 points)
edited Jul 22, 2023 by mbmmusic

Just a quick idea.

Lets say I have 8 analog outputs. That makes 4 stereo pairs.

Assign 1/2 to speakers A
Assign 3/4 to speakers B
Assign 5/6 to speakers C
Assign 7/8 to speakers D

Make sure to switch on the Cue-Mix on all speakers or in my case headphone outputs.



To be able to see the Cue-Mixes in the console you may need to toggle their visibility.

After you have done that you can create a simple Bus and send all your signals to that Bus instead of the master out.

Now you can send the Bus to speakers A and all the other speakers can be feed by cue-mixes from that Bus. Or as in my case, my headphones.



And in the ouput section of the console you can change the outputs and also the low-latency monitoring.




Hope that helps.

All best,
Markus

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