Mackie Spike User's Guide

™™G E T T I N G S T A R T E DGETTING STARTEDMONITORL / RUSB9V DC750mAINPUT 1INPUT 2INOUTOUTMIDIPower SupplyMackie Control(or other MIDIdevice)MIDIOU

Getting Started1010. Launch the Tracktion software and select the Mackie XD-2 hardware under Settings menu/WAVE devices. Also select Mackie XD-2 (fo

Getting Started1112. Navigate to a good location, enter a wonderful name for the new project in the pop-up dialog box, then click Save. All of this p

Getting Started1214. Double click on “new edit #1” to open up the Edit Screen. This new project starts with eight hori-zontal tracks, stacked vertica

Getting Started1315. As we have a microphone and a guitar connected in this example, we want two independent chan-nels instead of a stereo pair. Clic

Getting Started1416. Click on the Ch.1 icon, hold down your mouse button, and drag it next to the track you want to record onto. As it gets closer, a

Getting Started1517. To record, click the Record button in the Transport area (or press keyboard R). Tracktion records any armed tracks (icon with ar

Getting Started1623. MIDI data can be recorded using one of the softsynths supplied with Tracktion. Drag the MIDI icon to the left of a track, and Ar

Getting Started17Computer System RequirementsMinimum PC requirements• WIN XP• Intel Pentium 3 or 4, or AMD Athlon (750 MHz or better is recommended

Getting Started2ContentsGetting Started ----------------------------------------- 3Installing the Software-------------------------------- 4To install

Getting Started3Getting StartedWe hope this guide will help you get started making recordings with Spike. It describes how to in-stall the software, h

Getting Started4Installing the Software• The Spike CD contains an installer which will help you install the various software applications, plug-ins a

Getting Started55. If you want, go ahead and install Warmer Phaser (and other plug-ins from Nomad Factory), and Antares plug-ins.6. You can accept t

Getting Started6Installing and connecting the hardware• To stand the XD-2 upright, pull the stabilizer bar downwards and twist it out 90˚ from the bo

Getting Started7MONITORL / RUSB9V DC750mAINPUT 1INPUT 2INOUTOUTMIDIPower SupplyMackie Control(or other MIDIdevice)MIDIOUTMIDIINUSB ConnectionLaptopGui

Getting Started8Making a RecordingThe following example of a recording session uses a guitar plugged directly into the XD-2 channel 1 input, and a mic

Getting Started96. On the XD-2 front panel (with the MIX knob set to DIR) turn the PHONES knob gently to hear yourself through your headphones. Remem