Yep! You just have to make sure that you start the MIDI application up when you restart your computer. It has to "grab" your MIDI controller before you start up your DAW or any other music applications do. Other than that, it remembers all of your programming and it works perfectly. The MIDI program has an "auto startup" state but it doesnt work because it starts up too early, before my Apollo stuff gets registered on my Thunderbolt port. Since it beats the Apollo stuff to the punch, the connection between the two isnt made. So you just have to manually start it up on your own and then youre good to go. Also, you do not want to hit the "x" to close it, you just want to hit the "-" to minimize it. That will make it disappear but it will still be running/functioning in the background. If you want to see it again, you just have to find the icon in your system tray (the little icons next to your clock).
This is awesome!! I’m using BlackLion Revolution EXT with my Apollo x8 and I’m trying to use its DAC but still have control on the volume via adat. How would I set this up?!? Help!!
I dont have a Reveolution EXT and Im not quite sure how ADAT comes into play here. Sorry, man. Hopefully you can think your way through it with what you already understand about your equipment and your configuration, then just add what I show in this video.
@keyemup OK so I think I understand what youre doing. Youre using the ADAT outputs of your Apollo X8 to go into the ADAT inputs of your BlackLion Revolution EXT and then using the analog outputs of the EXT to send to pairs of speakers. Is that right? If so, just make a linked pair of your ADATs on console (make a stereo channel) and then follow the same steps I show in this video for the Virtual Channels. Just replace "virtual" with "adat" in whatever Im showing and see if that works as expected. Instead of using Virtual outputs as channel 1/2 on I/O Matrix, use ADAT outputs. IDK if the Apollo Console's Cue "mirror to output" will let you select ADAT outputs but if it does, then you can do both workflows I show in the video.
If you use the Sends and the Cue Outputs like I did on the 2nd set of channels (the Avatones, JBLs, Workspace, Bedroom set) you can simply turn up 2 of the Cues to send your output audio to both sets of outputs simultaneously.
@@jasonzdoraHi! Thank you for a very cool video. Please tell me I also have a77x monitors and they have a subwoofer sub10mk2, I would like to be able to turn it off programmatically and adjust the volume - is it possible to do this in the way you are talking about? The interface I have is Apollo x6
@@djfreedom.studio Yeah, for sure you can do that workflow! I would use one of the Que outputs for the sub and then set that Que output to "mirror to output X" Where "x" is whatever physical output of your X6 is feeding your sub.
