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Metric Halo +DSP MIO Tips, Tricks, and Tweaks

Tips, Tricks, Tweaks, for Metric Halo Mobile IO MIO hardware.

MIO Inside Internal

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————[MIO Inside]————-

Now for the fun stuff 😉

2882+DSP w/ 2D upgrade card

Legacy ULN-2 with original bridge board

ULN-8 with 2D AES board


Data sheets for the ADC and DAC chips are further down the page under MIO Conversion.

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+DSP Graphs

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- Bass Rekker

- M/S Limit

- M/S Compressor

- M/S EQ

- NY Comp

- MoTown Comp

- Parellel Limit

- Pitch Shift

- Program Duck

- Ring Mod LFO

- MIO echo

- Leslie Emulator

- Parallel Side-Chain Comp

- Look-Ahead Parallel Limiter

- Parallel RMS Side-Chain Comp

- Mulit-Band Compresor

- XYtri -> 5.1 down mix

- XYtri -> stereo down mix

- Tape Echo v1

- Tape Echo v1

- IBP Variable Phase - 2 pole

- IBP Variable Phase - 3 pole

+DSP Explained

- All Pass Filter (custom reverb)

- Slew Rate (definition and use)

- M/S (setup explained)

- Phase Shifting (explained)

- Chorus (building explained)

- Delay (building explained)

- Flange (building graphs)

- EQ (tech paper)

- Physical Modeling DSP

- NCO (definition)

- Vocoder (building explained)

+DSP Manual

+DSP
- MIO M/S Processor

- MIO 2x2 Static Matrix

- MIO 3x3 Static Matrix

- MIO 4x4 Static Matrix

- MIO 5x5 Static Matrix

- MIO 6x6 Static Matrix

- MIOComp (s/s)

- MIOEq 6 Band (s/s)

- MIOEq 12 Band (s/s)

- MIOLimit (s/s)

- MIOStrip (s/s)

- MIO Channel Summer

- MIO Channel Difference

- MIO Channel Sum/Difference

- MIO Channel Multiplier

- MIODelay (s/s)

- MIOModDelay (s/s)

- MIO Delay (Short) (s/s)

- MIO Delay (Medium) (s/s)

- MIO Delay (Long) (s/s)

- MIO Delay (Short IM) (s/s)

- MIO MultiTap Delay (Short)

- MIO MultiTap Delay (Medium)

- MIO MultiTap Delay (Long)

- MIOAllpass

- MIOAllpassVD

- MIOHardClip

- MIOSoftClip Type 1

- MIOSoftClip Type 2

- MIOSoftClip Type 3

- MIOSoftDistortion Type 1

- MIOSoftDistortion Type 2

- MIOSoftDistortion Type 3

- MIOSlew (m/m)

- MIOInSlew (m/m)

- MIO 4th Order Nonlinear Map

- MIO 4th Order Symmetrical

- MIO 16->8 A/B Switch

- MIO 16->8 A/B Switch (LPF)

- MIOQuadOsc

- MIOQuadLFO

- MIOQuadNCO

- MIOQuadNCO-Glide

- Noise

- Simple Dither (TPDF)

- Simple Dither (TPDF Hipass)

- Scale/Offset (m/m)

- SVF Control

- MIOSimplePitchShifter

2D Card +DSP Additions

2D Card+DSP

- Character (22 types)

- MultiBus V5 Mixer

- Surround Support

- Monitor Controller

- HaloVerb

- Bass Head

- Bass Head Shape 1

- Bass Head Shape 2

- British Mil Spec

- British Mil Spec Bright Cab

- British Mil Spec Grind

- British Mil Spec Light Grind

- British Mil Spec Rhythm

- British Mil Spec+Vibrato+Trem

- MH Clean

- MH Clean Tweed

- MH Hi-Gain

- Small Dark

- Small Dark No Cab

- Small Tweed Crunch

- Small Tweed Touch O' Dirt

- Autoflanger

- Autoflanger 2

- Autoflanger 3

- Cool Mono Echo

- LoFi Mod Echo

- Mono Rotary

- Slap Delay

- Vibrato+Tremolo

- Stereo Rotary Speaker

- Diffuse Prime

- Diffuse Room

- Early Diffuse Room (no tail)

- Hall 1

- LongVerb

- Med Diffuse Room

- ModVerb

- Small Diffuse Room

- Parallel Compressor

- Parallel Limiter

- Mid-Side Compressor

- Mid-Side EQ

- Mid-Side Limit

- Stereo Parallel Limiter

- Nezumi

- Nezumi Less Gain

- Screamer

- Closed 2x12

- Closed 2x12 with Air

- 4x12 Cab


+DSP Math

- ABS

- Max

- Min

- Select

- Map Range

- Divide

- Constant

- Square Root

- Reciprocal Square Root

- ADSR

- Exponential ADSR

- Band Split

2D Card MIO Character

2D CardCharacter

- American Solid State

- American Transformer 1

- American Transformer 2

- Boutique Tube

- British Pre Clone

- Cali Tube Mic

- Cali Tube Line

- Cali Vocal Box

- Cali Vocal Box Drive

- Classic British Pre

- FET

- Modern Tube DI 1

- Modern Tube EQ 2

- Modern Tube Soft Sat 3

- Modern Tube Mic Low Gain 4

- Modern Tube Mic Med Gain 5

- Modern Tube Mic High Gain 6

- Modern Tube Simulation 7

- Modern Tube Mic Soft Sat 8

- Soft Sat

- Transformer

- Valve
*1k tone sync w/ no level change*

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Official Metric Halo Links

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Mobile IO MIO Resources

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Metric Halo Tech Notes

- Firewire Speed

- 2882 Hardware

- ULN2 Hardware

- ULN8 Hardware

- ULN8 Front Panel

- Console Overview

- Firmware Upgrade

- CC + FW returns


- Console Pref

- Legacy Routing

- V5 Mixer Routing

- 2D Routing

- Core Audio MIO

- Troubleshooting

- Record Panel

- Control Surfaces Config

- Monitor Controller

- MIO Console Help

MIO iPod Tutorial Videos

- Teaser Trailer

- Mixer Overview

- Mixer Config

- Manual Mix Config

- Templates

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- Hardware Remap

- Foo ITunes

- Foo Sends

- Foo Tutorial 1


- Foo Tutorial 2

- Foo Tutorial 3

- FW Console Connect

- Legacy Box Config

- Mainstage

- MC Shuttle

- Multibox Routing

- Simple Input

- Simple Output

- Surround

- V5 Record Panel

- MIO Logic Automation


- 2882 Disassembly

- ULN2 Disassembly

MIO Foo +DSP Tutorials

- Foo Multizone Xfer

- Foo FW routing

- Foo & XTA tuning

- Foo Xfer balc tuning


- Foo weight EQ

- Foo SPL & flowchart

- Legacy Routing

- Logic Mono Bussing

- MIO Automation in DP

- MIO + Bidule

- MIO in Windows

- +DSP Program Duck


- +DSP BassRekker

- +DSP RingMod LFO

- +DSP Chorus

- +DSP Stereo Leslie

- Channel Strip SSL v1

- Channel Strip SSL v2



MIO Navigation

  • Mult a Send to multiple Outputs
  • Converter Latency
  • Box Remapping : Order
  • ULN8 – DI input
  • Word Clock : Termination
  • Foo : THD Measurements
  • +DSP : SHARC Generations
  • MIO Comp : Detection Meter
  • 2882 Steel panel vs aluminum
  • Spectrafoo : Lock scale with Groups
  • Rename MIO Mixer channels
  • AES/SPDIF : flagged bits
  • ULN8 – disable front power
  • Spectrafoo : Migrate Window Sets
  • +DSP Memory limits

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