Connectivity

What is the best method for audio shuffling with the Ultrix router?

For example, I have 8 video sources with audio on 1 & 2.  I need to route the audio from those 8 sources respectively combined to one destination with 16 channels of audio.  

Paul,

I did something similar to this, in my case I wanted studio program audio (coming from our Dante side of the FR12) to be routed to the cameras in each of the studios in question. The objective was to put program audio on each camera to be used as an ISO without the need to dynamically route each time I wanted an ISO.

I would create a source labeled with a mnemonic that speaks to you of its combined audio nature.

Then in that source I would go into each of the audio channels and manually update those entries. As you can see below my studio c camera 1 takes video from that input but replaces the first and second audio channels from Dante aux. Continuing along this way and modifying audios 3/4, 5/6 & etc until you have your payload configured as you like. The only drawback i see is that there is no truly 'obvious' way to see this audio shuffling, you kind of need to know it it being done or you need to pay close attention to the table. The other thing is that the source shuffling appears to depend on the exact string (i.e don't change case, spacing or characters).

I hesitate to say this is the 'best method' for accomlishing what you ask but it is 'a method' that works in my use case.

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Chris Spacone
Broadcast Engineer
USC / ASG
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Everything Chris said in his reply is correct. Building a source with all of the audio signals embedded on the respective channels is the quickest way to do this.

If you are wanting to  shuffle these signals from a soft panel and have the ability to change that shuffling on the fly, then that's where it gets a bit more tedious. I don't believe there's a way from a soft panel to say I want channels 1&2 from a source to be shuffled to say channels 3&4 of this destination, or any of the other 16 channels. But, a way around this could be that when you create the source(s) in the ultrix database, assign the same signals that are on 1/2, to 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, etc…this effectively copies what's on 1/2 to all 16 channels of the source. Do this for all 8 or your video sources. Now when these levels are exposed in the soft panel, each signal lives on all levels of each source and you can route them to any level of the destination in whatever order you like. This should give you the ability to change the shuffling on the fly from the panel.