Topic: Muting active monitors without muting HO AN 1/2
Hi all, I'm new to the forum and recently picked up a Fireface UFX III, and I absolutely love this thing. Thanks to the team for putting together such an outstanding product. Also, TotalMix has a learning curve but at a high level I find the architecture and mental model quite clever and easy to reason about once you internalize the logic.
My question: I'm trying to create a snapshot optimized for taking video calls (Google Meet, Zoom, etc.) and I've combed through the manual, YouTube videos, and posts here on this forum to review the configs that people tend to use for this scenario. Thus far I have almost everything set up correctly for my needs in this way:
HO AN 1/2 (Main) has Mic 9 mixed in, and is set to Loopback with the intent of sending my voice over Mic 9 to the video call
HO AN 1/2 (Main) has SP AN 1/2 turned off with the intent of not feeding the other video call participant's audio back to them
PH 9/10 has both Mic 9 and SP AN 1/2 mixed in so I can monitor the call and my own voice via headphones
This all appears to work exactly as intended, with the one remaining issue that the two near field studio monitors I have connected to the physical HO AN 1/2 ports continue to playback all audio during a call.
It makes logical sense that they would do this, but I'm curious if there's a way in this scenario that I could mute only the output to the active monitors while still being able to send along the signal from Mic 9 (my voice) over HO AN 1/2 and monitor the call via PH 9/10.
I suspect this would be a lot easier if I wasn't using MacOS and could specify different outputs for the mic feed (reserving HO AN 1/2 for my near field monitors), but as it stands I believe I'm forced to send my mic signal mixed into HO AN 1/2 because it's the default port used by all video call applications on MacOS.
Is there something obvious I'm missing here? Or a different routing config that might handle this scenario more elegantly? Thanks in advance for taking the time to read this, cheers!
Fireface UFX III