How To Get The Most Out Of Avid's MTRX And MTRX Studio
The Avid MTRX and MTRX Studio interfaces have a lot of features and offer significant flexibility. However, the extent of options and flexibility can make the setup process complicated. This article offers a range of resources all designed to help you get the most out of your Avid MTRX or MTRX Studio.
We are going to start with an extended video tutorial presented by Avid’s Jeff Komar who has been an Avid product specialist team focusing on professional audio products for over 20 years. Jeff is a musician, engineer and technician who enjoys helping creative people navigate the flux of technology. He has played a key role in many high-level demonstrations for Avid at industry events in the US and around the world and has been instrumental in helping major facilities to optimize their workflow by integrating solutions from Avid.
This video tutorial examines the concepts of signal flow and I/O patching and monitoring with the MTRX and MTRX Studio products. Understanding and managing the PRO | MON monitoring environment in DADman, whether for stereo or Dolby Atmos workflows, is a critical part of working with the MTRX devices. Some creative and unconventional uses for Fold Downs, Talkback, and Monitor paths are also explored.
This is a lot of information covered in this extended, 1 hour, video tutorial. To help you jump to the topic you need help on here are links to allow you to jump straight to the chapter that you are specifically interested in…
00:00 Introduction
02:55 Device List in DADman - connected devices overview
03:35 PRO | MON and Monitor Profiles - structure of Monitors
06:00 Control Room Sources
08:15 Control Room Outputs
09:20 Control Room Fold Downs
10:06 Control Room Meters
10:30 Monitor Sources - Add Existing
10:55 Import from Profile
12:15 Signal Flow using the Con patchbay
13:30 Labeling DigiLink and MADI ports in DADman
14:20 Patching Analog I/O into Pro Tools
16:50 Monitoring and Patching Sources
18:50 Patching the Dolby Renderer to MTRX
23:30 Returning Speakers and ReRenders into Monitor Profile
25:20 Patching 5.1 and BIN ReRenders from MADI to Dante
28:55 Dante Optimization and Best Practices
30:40 Creating and assigning a 9.1.6 Custom Group format
34:55 Bass Management
38:26 Control Systems: MOM, MTRX Studio & EUCON
39:45 Unconventional Applications of Fold Down Matrix
42:30 Speaker Group Solos with Fold Matrix
45:30 Alternative Applications for the Meter Path
50:10 Setting up a Talkback Slate to Pro Tools
51:55 Sending LTC over the Dante Network
54:10 Input EQ and Delay Processing
Using Audio Over IP Or EuControl? Read This Now
We are creatives, we use tools to be creative and get the job done but we are not computer network specialists. However, with the growth of Audio Over IP using Dante or AVB and control surfaces connected via your network using protocols like EuControl, people may be using technology that we may not fully understand. In this article, Using Audio Over IP Or EuControl? Read This Now, we aim to explain, as simply as possible, tips you can implement to reduce problems with trying to get too much data reliably across your office or home network.
How To Set Up The DAD/Avid SPQ Card Using The Free Room EQ Wizard
Ever since DAD released the SPQ card for their AX32 and then with the version for the Avid MTRX and now with the smaller version built into the MTRX Studio, users need to be able to analyse their speakers and room, and somehow transfer the results onto the SPQ card using the DADman software. In this article, How To Set Up The DAD/Avid SPQ Card Using The Free Room EQ Wizard, we show how this can be achieved using the free Room EQ Wizard software, a low-cost USB measurement mic, and most importantly, how to transfer the measurements to the SPQ card.
Avid MTRX Tested - Why One User Decided That This Was The Pro Tools Interface For Him
In September 2020, James Richmond took delivery of a new Avid MTRX. In this article, Avid MTRX Tested - Why One User Decided That This Was The Pro Tools Interface For Him, he explains why the Avid MTRX was the interface for him and why he chose the MTRX as opposed to its new little brother the MTRX studio.
Want To Future Proof Your Pro Tools HD System? Upgrade Your Interface To An Avid MTRX And Have Access To All The Latest Protocols
Whether you work in music production or audio post-production you can now have a versatile interface that delivers the respected DAD sound quality with complete Pro Tools integration. In this article, Want To Future Proof Your Pro Tools HD System? Upgrade Your Interface To An Avid MTRX And Have Access To All The Latest Protocols, we walk through the features in the MTRX that will help you future proof your Pro Tools HD system and talk to a user about why he chose to buy a Pro Tools MTRX and include a case study showing why OSN, a major entertainment network with the rights to broadcast into 24 countries across the MENA, with over 150 channels including 65 HD channels chose an MTRX interface.
Avid Overview Of Pro Tools MTRX Interface
In this video from Avid, Avid Pro Audio Solutions Specialists Ozzie Sutherland and Jeff Komar take you through what you can do with the Pro Tools MTRX interface, covered the modular, I/O, network, router, monitor control and DigiLink options that are on the Pro Tools MTRX.
Avid Pro Tools MTRX Highlights
Digital Audio Denmark’s (DAD’s) AD and DA converters are renowned for delivering clean, transparent, and detailed sound. DAD has partnered with Avid to take their AX32 and turn it into the Pro Tools MTRX, meaning that the MTRX picks up that pedigree enabling you to get the best sound quality possible from your Pro Tools HD system up to super-high-resolution 384 kHz DSD. But the MTRX doesn't stop there because it does double duty as both an audio I/O and monitor interface.
With the MTRX you can take full remote control of all sources, monitors, and speaker sets directly from Pro Tools S6, other EUCON-enabled control surfaces, and the included DADman software. Pro Tools MTRX includes Pro Mon 2, providing complete monitoring, talkback, summing, and fold-down control, whether you’re mixing in mono, stereo, 5.1, 7.1, 9.1, or even a 64-channel immersive audio mix.
Like its DAD cousin the AX32, the Pro Tools MTRX is fully modular, so you can customise it with a variety of I/O and interface options. From analog inputs, outputs, and high-quality mic pres, to Dante, MADI, AES3, 3G-SDI, and more, you have the interface versatility to connect any type of gear and route any signal between the various I/O formats.
Using DADman software, you can route, split, and patch audio quickly with a matrix capacity of up to 1,500 x 1,500 cross points. You can feed any input to any output, or even send audio to multiple outputs simultaneously, giving you unlimited workflow possibilities.