What Do You Know About Touchmix Compact Digital Mixer? Trivia Quiz

TouchMix-16 and TouchMix-8

TouchMix-16 and TouchMix-24

TouchMix-Simple and TouchMix-Advanced

TouchMix-8 and TouchMix-Pro

XLR Main Outputs

XLR Auxiliary outputs

XLR Talkback Mic input

Power connection

Accessory Jack

2 USB Ports

Different number of inputs and outputs, but the same power and processing

Different processing speed and internal memory

Different colors and construction materials

“Touch and Turn,” one hand on the touchscreen, one hand on the Master Wheel.

“Slam and Bam,” both fists on the touchscreen, repeatedly.

“Wait and Hope,” no hands on the mixer, wait for someone else to do it for you.

“Scratch and Sniff,” one finger and one nose on the touchscreen.

True

False

Simple mode provides fewer controls to quickly adjust a particular process, while Advanced Mode gives more experienced users control over every aspect of the process.

Simple mode makes the text and fader heads oversized, while Advanced mode makes it intentionally difficult to read text or make changes.

Simple mode provides nothing but one gain fader for every channel, and Advanced mode requires a password to access further control.

True

False

True

False

Less experienced users can add professionally-created EQ for their instruments with the touch of a few buttons.

Experienced audio engineers can save time by using a preset and then fine-tuning any remaining parameters for their venue.

It will preserve the channel’s current name when the Preset is loaded.

It will delete the channel’s current name and restore its default name setting.

It will remove the name field entirely from the channel and make the gain fader taller.

A team of TouchMIx engineers spent weeks working with real musicians and a variety of instruments and PA gear to create useful presets that work for actual performances.

Presets were applied to synthesized instruments in a studio by one engineer using headphones only.

EQ, Compression, and Gate was randomly assigned to channels, and then labeled based on what sort of instrument the end result sounded like.

Channel presets

FX selections

Pan

Fader settings

EQ

Compression

Gates

Channel names

Basic Chorus

Pitch Change

Dense Reverb

Lush Reverb

Mono Delay

Stereo Delay

Doppler Effect

1

2

3

4

1

2

4

As many as you like

Lets a user quickly apply an FX preset to multiple channels based on instrument type and style.

Lets a user manage pyrotechnic and laser lighting rigs through the TouchMix.

Lets a user change the color scheme and sound effects of the TouchMix navigation.

True

False

It indicates the amount of clipping that has occurred on each channel, and recommends how much its input trim knob should be adjusted.

It automatically mixes your channel’s gain faders for the best sounding band mix.

It normalizes all channels by adding gain to softer inputs and removing it from louder inputs.

That channel has experienced clipping.

That channel is muted.

That channel does not have anything connected to it.

That channel has phantom power active.

Only for recording a single stereo track

For recording all 22-tracks of a recording session

Never, this device is not usable for any recording purposes.

FAT32

FAT

NTFS

ESATA

Show Drive and Archive Drive

Performance Drive and Studio Drive

Live Drive and Prerecorded Drive

Travel Drive and Network Drive

Track will use the recorded track on the hard drive as the channel’s source, while Arm will enable that channel to be recorded.

Track will keep a log of all changes made to that channel, while Arm will restore the channel to its last saved state.

Track will set up the channel to be recorded onto the hard drive, and Arm will begin the recording session.

True

False

True

False