Bypass Mbox Control!!!!!!!!!

[danielcordova]

I am surprised that the Mbox Control mixer cannot be completely omitted, when in other interfaces of the same range it is possible, I want to take the outputs of my DAW directly to the physical outputs, omitting the volume control so that all the volumes are controlled solely by the DAW, but there is no way to do it.

[Darryl Ramm]

The Mbox Studio only has 8 DAW returns, it needs that hardware motioning mixer to get to a physical outputs. A not great design decision, made a lot worse by Avid sloppy marketing not making the 8 DAW return limit clear. Its unclear if Avid could rewrite the firmware to add more DAW returns, and without that folks would need the mixer. But combine that with the poor latency and seeming latency reporting errors in the interface I would just run far from this box. But... if the issue you are having is the mixer volume controls what is stopping you setting them all at 0dB in the mixer and leaving them there?

[albee1952]

Hmmm, a couple of thoughts here:
1-latency has not ever been an issue here and I do a fair amount of overdubs with guitar and bass thru amp sim plugins. Not sure why some feel there's an issue.
2-if you want to route all audio out outputs(guessing some sort of analog summing?), then maybe Mbox Studio is simply not the right tool for the job.

I certainly wish some things were different on this interface, but at the end of the day, it serves my needs quite well(and this is coming from an HDN rig with 192's)

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by albee1952

Hmmm, a couple of thoughts here:
1-latency has not ever been an issue here and I do a fair amount of overdubs with guitar and bass thru amp sim plugins. Not sure why some feel there's an issue.

There is an issue for the reasons I stated. Folks actually measured and reported the RTL latency, and it's not great. And worse it is reported wrong by the driver, and that is just awful for any interface. This has been covered in other threads here, I actually thought you were on those threads. If it works for you for your workloads that is great for you, but based on what has been measured and more so the latency reporting errors I'd not touch these. Given no serious peep out of Avid about these or other issues the product also has some feel of early abandonware. I'd be happy for Avid to prove me wrong, you know by actually doing something. :-O

[Top Jimmy]

As Darryl already mentioned, simply put up the one chosen pair of return faders on each output tab to 0 and leave all others all the way down.


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