 In this video I'm going to be running through the setup of the mixer on the Rocaster Pro 2 and show you how to assign different channels to the different faders on the device so let's get straight on into it. Now one of the things that's different about the Rocaster Pro 2 compared to the Rocaster Pro 1 is that first of all although there are fewer physical faders on the device there are three virtual faders so we have nine in total but the other thing is these are completely customizable so whereas with the RCP 1 these four faders here were linked directly to the four inputs now we can sort of move these all around so I'll show you how to do that but for the time being what I've done is I've just got this as the default setup so when you go through the setup process with the Rocaster Pro 2 you can either use the setup wizard where you're going to specify exactly what things you've got coming in and out of it and it will then organize all of those devices onto the screen for you and to the relative faders. I've just used the default setup now in that sense what this has done is it's just basically pre-populated all of these faders with different inputs and outputs so this isn't quite what I want and so then I'm going to go through and show you how to adjust all of that. So the default though is that you will have on the first four faders these will be linked to the four inputs at the back so you can have up to four microphones coming in but then over XLR but because they've now got these as well as an XLR cable from a microphone you could also take a line in or a guitar or something like that so that is what these first four faders are it is for the line in on the back the four connectors on the back. The fifth fader here is for Bluetooth I should say by the way that there is a little symbol on the screen telling you what they are so this has got a little symbol of a microphone and then the numbers one two three and four this has got the Bluetooth symbol that is corresponding to this fifth fader and then the sixth here is the sound panels or the smart pads I should say where you can have sound effects and things like that playing so that is for the volume of those and that is currently assigned to this. They are all color coded so we do have a colored light on each of these to corresponds with the color that you have on the screen there just so that you can easily see which one relates to which but you'll notice on here there is also as well as these six faders there is also these three here and these are those virtual faders now as a default these are all assigned to the the USB in and out that we've got and in fact there is now two cables going out of the device those could both go into the same computer as indeed I've got them now because I'm doing a little bit of slightly more complex audio routing using both of those USB cables but you could also have one going into one computer one going into another or even one going into an iOS device or some sort of other device that you are going to have your audio coming in from whatever the case though we've got two cables now the thing that is slightly special about that first one is that that's actually got two separate channels on it so that's why we have these three different things here the first one is USB to the secondary then we've got USB one and then USB one chat now these show up as three different devices on your computer and actually they're called the from the first cable we've got the USB main sorry the road caster pro 2 main and road caster pro 2 chat and then from that secondary cable we've got road caster pro 2 secondary so that is how these are going to show up on your device in fact they will be something like this that's what they will just appear as as the inputs and outputs on your computer so what is different about those three because there is a slight difference with the the two that are coming from the first cable road caster pro 2 main does not have mix minus and road caster pro 2 chat does have mix minus and these are permanently on maybe this might change it to later date with a firmware update who knows but for the time being there is no mix minus on the main and there is mix minus on the chat and what is mix minus exactly and well if you think that this is a device that we can either send audio from the computer to so it can act as an input into the device and but also we can take audio from the device back into the computer as well and so you've got this sort of two-way audio going on now if you are using this in some sort of communications platform like zoom discord teams or something like that or in my case recording with e-cam live as well just as I'm doing right now if you're feeding audio from zoom or from e-cam live into here because you want to record the audio and obviously put it into the mix and but then it's feeding back into the computer it would feed back to itself and you would get this slap back where you're hearing basically a duplication a moment later of whatever audio is coming in would go straight back out again so mix minus basically means that on that specific channel so in this case on the chat channel this one has the mix minus on any audio that's coming in will be kind of like removed from the signal that's going back out on that same channel so it means that the application is not kind of hearing itself back and especially important in things like zoom where you don't want basically people to be hearing themselves back over the over in in the zoom meeting so that's what mix minus is and that's the difference between the main and the chat now on the secondary channel which is coming from that second USB cable although there is only one USB cable that has that has a single channel that has the option of turning the mix minus on or off so you have the choice there and I'll get into the the way that I'm using this with those two cables and three different channels in a later video but for the time being though let's just have a look at how we can rearrange all of that because that is the default setting that is basically all of the different inputs and outputs that you may have but we can then do a little bit more in terms of organizing these so that if you want to move things around so for example I might well use a second microphone at times so I might well want to keep this second microphone here but really for me these are a little bit pointless because I'm never going to be bringing a second a third and fourth microphone into the device so I'd much prefer to have my sort of USB controls over on these physical faders and by the way I should say to adjust the levels on these virtual faders all you do is you click on them on the screen like this and then we have the dial here that we can turn and you can see that as I'm turning this dial it is moving that fader up and down and if you just press in the button then it will it will sort of set it at that level I could click on this one you see that these little controls pop up at the bottom I'm going to move that fader up and down and then just press and then it exits that screen or you could also do it this way if I move the fader up and then just tap again on that slider that fader then it will it will exit that there are a couple more controls before I move on on the the bottom down here so this is to either mute a channel and this one is to solo the channel and by solo what that means is it means that you as the host on channel one will hear that in your in your monitor so if you are maybe queuing up some music or something like that and you just want to hear exactly where it's getting to or a clip or something like that you would be able to let's say I was bringing something over Bluetooth I might want to just solo that channel and then get the level right and then bring it into the mix something like that so that's what that little symbol is there's a little bit more advanced things that you can do with these I'll come on to that in the next video when we're going to be talking about the back channel chat and things like that as well but the time being just know that there are these buttons here for the mute and solo by the way if you do want to solo multiple different things you can simply do that just click multiple ones of these and then I'll be hearing in my ear everything that's coming from those specific channels so you can solo more than one which sounds a little bit weird but you can do that now on the virtual faders here then you can do this as well so just click on any one of these and you'll see that we've got those same two symbols there this one for the solo and then this one to mute that channel so let's move on to how to actually organize all of these if we want to rearrange anything that is on this screen at any time we can do that simply we just click on the little cog wheel just up at the top here for the settings and then we have faders here now we can see what is assigned to all of the different faders so the top row here is the physical faders and the bottom row here is the virtual faders and you can see what is assigned to each everything is all matching in terms of you can see the color coding and things like that corresponds to the colors along the top here but we can really simply move things around so if I say well I don't really want to use this microphone 3 and I want to move it out of the way I could simply say right well okay let me put my USB one over there instead I'm just going to drag it and drop it and it is now switched those those two out in terms of where they are I might also just want to say well I actually just want to delete this one all together because I'm never going to use microphone 3 so I could also just click on it and then where it says input number 3 you can see what is selected I can just click none and then click like that and then it has actually gone all together from those faders you can always add it in add it back in afterwards if you wanted to and we'll look at how to do that in the moment for the time being though let me say that I want to move this over here so we've got my these are both the USB one channel so we've got the main and then we've got the chat you can tell which one is the chat although they both got USB one symbol on them the chat is the one with the chat speech bubble which makes sense and then here we've got the USB 2 so if ever you want to add something onto one of these faders then you just simply click on the plus and then from here you can choose from any of those inputs and the inputs of those that we've already looked at inputs one to four Bluetooth USB one USB one chat USB two and also the sounds from the sound pad one thing that you can also do with this though if I just delete this one for a second so I'm not using channels three and four one thing that you can do with the rogaster pro 2 which is something you couldn't previously do first of all is take line in as opposed to just a over a jack rather than an XLR cable so now it has got these nitric-nutric connectors on the back that allow you to plug in a jack and what you can also do is if you do have as well as being able to plug in like a line in or a guitar or something like that if you do have a stereo pair that you want to bring in over two separate lines then you can do that as well we just click on the plus and then you'll notice underneath these four inputs input one two three and four corresponding to those four inputs on the back you do also have this little stereo icon here which basically is going to couple two of those together and it's either one and two two and three or three and four you can't join four and one for example so it's just two that are next to each other so if you click on input three and four and you can see underneath you don't need to click on I'm sorry you see the stereo button underneath I tap that then that now has linked those two together you can see that they've turned yellow click on okay and there we've got them linked onto that virtual fader so now coming back out what you'll notice is as well that fader slot that we're no longer using has just disappeared from the screen so it's not going to appear there if you've got nothing on it and if I just come back into the faders again I'll show you what I mean if I just remove this one now and I'll remove the virtual one as well there we go so if I come back into my home can you see now there are only six faders there rather than those three virtual ones so these ones will stay though if I was to say I don't want anything on this one so I wasn't using the chat then take that one out come back here that one does still show as a just a blank fader just so that you can clearly see you know what's corresponding to which but just know that those virtual faders even if you can't see them here it means you can add them in and everything else will just sort of squish up to make some space for it so that is how you sort of move things around and organize them I think it's really great that you can do that because then you can set this up and have these faders for exactly what you need them for one of the reasons why I didn't get a roadcaster pro one is because I couldn't really think of the use case necessarily that I'd have for it with just a single microphone doing my audio mainly in ecamm live being able to control that with the stream deck and the loop deck however having the versatility now to move all of these things around and I'm going to be using all three of those inputs and outputs to do some complex audio routing with ecamm live going into zoom and discord and things like that now I can really see the benefit of having this because everything is all on for me all on these these six sliders here so or faders I should say I got to get my terminology right haven't I now you can do some slightly more complex things in terms of first of all that audio routing that I was talking about but also activating back channel chat and things like that so there's a couple of different ways you can do that he says knocking his mouth across the desk there are a couple of ways that you can do that from the bottom but then also using the smart pads as well because they're not just audio now they are for you know assigning to different tasks as well so we'll be looking at that though in the next video which is coming right up and I've also left a list to my overall roadcaster playlist too