Matrix3: Automation

Automation

If the LX-300 is the heart of Matrix3, then CueStation is the brain. CueStation provides a single point of entry to every Matrix3 feature for programming, real-time operation, or automation. You can configure a mixer with up to eight bands of fully parametric EQ, two dynamics processors, and more than a second of delay for each input or output, mix any combination of channels to any output, decide how a control surface will command Matrix3, create complex multichannel panning that works independently of the physical loudspeaker layout, set up audio playlists, and generate Cue Lists automating every one of these details, even controlling external devices.

“The LCS Series provides a spectrum of creative tools not otherwise available. The type of automation it offers makes complex matrixing and fades possible with a high level of precision, reliability and repeatability.”

- Peter McBoyle, Sound Designer

The power of Matrix3’s highly flexible automation is tremendous. A Matrix3 Cue can automate one parameter as easily as all of them, and an unlimited number of Cues can be strung together into Cue Lists that can be executed manually and/or under external control methods like time code or MIDI commands.

A Cue can make one small parameter change or redefine the entire system. It can cause an immediate alteration, delay triggering an action, or generate a sequence of events that can last for minutes. With this level of power, an entire production can be programmed into a single Cue List, with the user always having the option of real-time modifications.

It is common for things to change in a production, but that doesn’t have to make life difficult. Cue List components are referential: rather than each Cue or Subcue (the lowest level of automation component) in each Cue List containing its data, each instance of that Cue or Subcue merely references data stored independently. When the timing of a cue changes, it is only necessary to change it in one place and every instance will play the new version correctly.

No other system offers such comprehensive control over every aspect of the audio from a single environment.