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Hy guys,

I have to play out a videoclip with 4 mono audio tracks through ultrastudio monitor's SDI output.
Do I have to use the preferences with some kind of crazy LCRS routing or what?
If yes, how the heck do I set it up and how can I listen simultaniously to the first 2 tracks on my laptop speakers?
Or should I better use another software?

Thx in advance for any kind of help.
Christian

Adaptive 4 single track and then you map 4x source channels as you wish. This should be passed to SDI then with 1-1 mapping. I may be wrong though

thx for your help
but I still cant figure out how to map the source channels.

Do you mean I have to change the audio attributes of the clip to adaptive 4 (with the embeded source channels 1,2,3 and 4) and created a new timeline using that clip? Yeah, the adaptive 4 track audio shows up... nice. But where is the point? There is no adaptive 4 track bus but only fancy LRCS kind of busses available in fairlight where I can't route the source channels correctly and besides that I still have to decide in the preferences whether I want to use my laptopspeakers or 'decklink' called outputs. I cannot use both simultaniously.

I think bus for SDI monitoring is irrelevant, but not sure about it.
Audio in Resolve is a bit of mystery

For simultaneous monitoring on headphones get cheap HDMI de-embedder. This will also guarantee you sync.
If you start splitting video and audio path you may end up with sync issues. Very common problem.

A mistery? ... nice understatment!

In Premiere Pro its so easy.
I just set up a sequence with adaptive 4 tracks and adaptive 4 master out, then map the tracks to the outs by simply checking the cossesponding boxes of the routing-matrix... thats it.

But I would like to get rid of Premiere

Ok, simultaneous monitoring is a problem, I get it... I could use an atomos shogun for that, no problem.

I know, I use Premiere more than Resolve as well. Some things are so convoluted in Resolve and whole audio section is one of them. It's due to the fact that Resolve is trying to be an advanced audio tool as well. Same with Fusion. All of this needs so much refinement. Now it's just collection of "dropped in" elements to have it all in one app. It's not the best approach.
If you ask then you will find that actually not many users get audio section in Resolve. For advanced audio users it lacks many key elements, for "NLE users" it's complex
What you asked should be trivial, but I assume you won't get clear answer quickly.

ok, found the problem... seems to be a bug.

YOU ONLY GET AUDIO OVER SDI in the edit tab!!!

Here is how it has to be set up:

1. Set audio output format of computer audio device in preferences to LCRS and map speakers
2. Right click on clip -> clip attributes -> audio -> 4 individual monotracks
3. Right click on clip -> create timeline with clip -> set 4 mono tracks for output
4. Go to fairlight and set bus format to RCLS
5. Map every track output to that RCLS bus within the mixer (click on the '+' at the bottom)
6. Route every track according to its position of the bus format in the pan section of the mixer
first track to left top (R = right)
second track to center top (C = center)
third track to right top (L = left)
fourth track anywhere at the bottom (S = surround)
7. Go to edit tab, play the clip end enjoy sound on speakers an over SDI

So you still have to go through that all messy and convoluted process just to have simple 1-1 mapping on SDI output?
This basically makes Resolve about unusable for any typical NLE work in studio which does a lot of quick editing etc. and uses SDI monitoring.

You can't have it working this way in "Most advanced NLE out there"

Well, at least this is how it works... maybe there is an easy way, who knows?

But the ultrastudio monitor 3g has more problems, in fact it is absolutely unuseable on the fairlight page, because videomonitoring is in SLOMO! Yes, in slomo, while audio playback is in realtime. However, on cut and edit page everything seems to work just fine.
But if I want to do any kind of work on fairlight page, I first have to uncheck ultrastudio monitor as a video device in the preferences and restart resolve.... thats very annoying!