MixerEvent EZbus 8 Channel USB Audio Interface/Stand Alone-Digital Mixer Board

  

Event EZbus MIXER 8 Channel USB Audio Interface/ Stand Alone-Digital Mixer Board. MIXER DIGITAL STUDIO EVENT EZBUS.

As a stand-alone Digital Mixer, it provides 8 main input channels (four of which provide 3 inputs each), plus a USB port, 2 S/PDIF coaxial Inputs, one output, and S/PDIF/ADAT-format optical I/O. Main input channels provide dynamics processing and 4-band EQ. Other I/Os include dual MIDI I/Os, Word Clock Out, and 2 Sends plus 2 Aux Outs, making it an ideal Hard Disk Recording Interface. One button push is all it takes to instantly transform EZbus into a customizable Control Surface with support for major software programs.

You could see a product like this on the horizon but it took the ingenious minds of Event Electronics to actually deliver. The EZbus mix engine architecture provides 8 primary channels, each of which offers EQ and dynamics processing. The 8 channels can be fed from any hardware input, analog or digital. A channel's signal can be routed to multiple destinations, including the Main Mix bus, the Alt Mix bus, and any or all of the 4 Sends; these, in turn, can be routed to a variety of hardware outputs. The EZbus also has 4 Return busses, which can function as additional input channels.

This provides you with a total of 12 input channels, 8 of which support EQ and dynamics processing. In a typical computer-based recording environment, many of the audio sources (keyboards, sound modules, drum machines, effects devices, and the like) require little or no processing "after the fact;" that is, they don't necessarily need to have their tone, volume, or pan positions controlled at the mixer level. Rather, these functions can be performed by the device itself via internal settings or in response to MIDI commands. In that scenario, all that's required of the mixer is that it provide a means for the audio from the device to be brought into the main mix. The EZbus was designed to accommodate a large number of audio sources, not all of which would necessarily need to have their individual tone, volume, and pan positions controlled at the mixer level.

On EZbus analog inputs 5, 6, 7, and 8, three input jacks (labeled A, B, and C) are provided for each input. The 3 jacks in each channel are summed (and electronically buffered), allowing you to connect up to 3 audio sources to a single input. You could, for example, bring the signals from 6 synthesizers into inputs 5A, 5B, 5C, 6A, 6B, and 6C. Altogether, that's 12 audio signals brought into the EZbus using only 4 audio channels.

In this manner, you can bring a total of 20 signals into the EZbus. At a minimum, you can bring 8 signals into the EZbus, each of which can be independently processed with EQ and dynamics.

These signals can be from either analog or digital sources. Let's presume you're a solo performer doing a nightclub gig.

You would likely have an assortment of sound modules, possibly a keyboard, a drum machine, some effects devices, your vocal mic, and, versatile musician that you are, an acoustic or electro-acoustic guitar. Your vocal mic would plug into analog input #1. Your guitar would go into analog mic input #2 (or instrument input #3 if it's electro-acoustic) Your drum machine could go into analog inputs #3 and #4 (presuming you want to run in stereo). Let's say you have 3 MIDI sound modules and you also want to run them in stereo; these would plug into analog inputs 5A and 6A, 5B and 6B, and 5C and 6C. Now for your 3 outboard effects devices (a reverb, a vocal harmonizer, and a digital delay line, for example): Let's run them stereo as well, and plug all 3 into analog inputs 7A and 8A, 7B and 8B, and 7C and 8C.

The last item is your keyboard, which features an S/PDIF output. It plugs into either the EZbus's coaxial or optical S/PDIF input. Let's say you're also using a computer loaded with MIDI and audio sequences.

Its stereo output would come into an EZbus Return (routed to the Main mix bus) via USB. Altogether that's 2 monophonic instruments, 5 stereo instruments, 3 stereo effects devices, and a stereo mix from your laptop, for a total of 20 audio signals.

In this configuration you would have independent control of volume, pan, EQ, and dynamics over your vocal mic, guitar, and drum machine. The sound modules would be grouped, with the EZbus's channel volume, pan, EQ, and dynamics settings affecting all 3 devices equally. Similarly, the effects devices would be grouped, with the EZbus channel settings affecting all 3 devices equally.

The keyboard and computer would simply return directly to the Mix bus, with no EZbus channel-level processing on either; their settings would be controlled at the source. Let's say you want to use your software "virtual" synths for live performance. Here's what you do: First, connect your computer or laptop to the EZbus via USB. Next, connect the MIDI out of your controller keyboard to either of the MIDI inputs on the EZbus.

Now, when you play a note on your controller, that MIDI signal goes out of EZbus via USB and triggers the virtual synth. Here's where it gets fun: The audio from the virtual synth comes back into a couple of EZbus channels via USB, and that signal is mixed with your regular hardware synths (which are plugged into other EZbus channels). Your entire keyboard rig - real and virtual - is now a single, integrated system! The EZbus offers 2 ways to bring audio digitally into a PCI-based system: via S/PDIF and via ADAT light pipe.

Simply connect one of the S/PDIF outputs to an S/PDIF-equipped PCI card, or the ADAT optical output to the ADAT optical input on a Lightpipe-equipped PCI card. You can use the ADAT, S/PDIF, USB, and analog outputs simultaneously. Independent programmable dynamics (compressor/expander/gate) are provided on each primary audio channel and on the Main Mix. The EZbus also has independent four-band EQ on each primary audio channel and on the Main Mix, comprising sweepable high and low shelving plus 2 fully parametric bands. All parameters of all functions are independently programmable and simultaneously available. In addition to USB, the EZbus offers 2 ways to bring audio digitally into a computer system equipped with a PCI-based audio interface: via S/PDIF and via ADAT light pipe. NOUS SOMMES UN MAGASIN SPECIALISE DANS L'ACHAT, LA VENTE ET LE DEPOT-VENTE DE MATERIEL AUDIOVISUEL. OCCASION / NEUF A PRIX DISCOUNT.

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