01V... Your thoughts?

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:23 pm

Greetings all,

While I have been doing some serious downsizing and moving more and more into the digital domain, I am considering getting rid of my mackie 24/8 and going to a much smaller desk such as the 01v for a few reasons..

It is my understand the 01v can also serve an AD converters via lightpipe to my CW card, and also I had read how you can use the 01V as a controle surface aswell. I do think this would change the quality of sound going all digital but I was just curious if any one has this board and what there thoughts were on it.

Since I have started selling off alot of my oputboard gear I have no need for all these patch bays and 24 channels these days, just looking for opinions

Cheers!

virtualstudio · Post by **virtualstudio** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 2:21 pm

I've the 01v and I'm very happy with it
I still have 48 one wich comes without the adat board and has only one slot for an adat extension, but what I've heard the new 01v96 is standard with one adat (8in/8out) board and has an option slot for another one.
I like the easy to use display and good layout for this mixer. it doesn't feel like a small mixer although it fits perfect in my 19" rack. my opinion... go for it!

medusa13 · Post by **medusa13** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 9:30 pm

I have a 01v, and I think it's great.
You get 24 channels of audio (8 digital+16 analog).Though there's a little trade off with the digital channels and the swap function regarding the parametric eq. Still, it's not something that can't be solved. Besides, you can still use the sfp's EQs and FXs before you go into the board.
Yes, you can also use every single knob or fader as a controller, plus you get a compressor on every channel, plus 2 FX units.
Too bad the ADs are 20 bits, but the internal resolution is still 32 bits and the adat and s/pdif connections transmit on 24 bits resolution.

paulrmartin · Post by **paulrmartin** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:22 am

On 2004-03-15 21:30, medusa13 wrote:

Yes, you can also use every single knob or fader as a controller,

How do you achieve that, medusa?

Basic Pitch · Post by **Basic Pitch** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 10:39 am

Hi again,

Im not overly concerned with a 20bit ratio since most of what I do ends up on CD or old school wax

in the end it all ends up dithered down to 16 bit anyways..

Thanks for the heads up..

medusa13 · Post by **medusa13** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 4:02 pm

First of all, the 01v has MIDI in/out/thru. You should connect the MIDI out of the 01v to your pulsar MIDI in. You can achieve this by using a MIDI patch bay, or just plugging it in directly into your card, depending on how many inputs you have. After that, there’s a setup page in the 01v screen where you should set the mixer to transmit controller data. After that, just connect your SFP's MIDI source to any device and there you go.
Next step is to open the device you've chosen, click on the parameter you want to control and ask SFP to learn the controller number.
Sorry if I can't be more specific about the setup page but I personally prefer to use my microwave xt as a MIDI controller for tweaking.
In case you are using cubase, there's an option that, in case you enable it, you can also control cubase's mixers or some plugins.
If you have more doubts, let me know.