well, anyway... The last tutorial left us with two machines.. Pretty useless really. We need to create a network of them to get anywhere. This requires some theory lessons, though.
In S:A:T:A:N we have these "Machines", that can be connected to each other. When they are connected, they can send signals to each other. How do you connect machines? Well, using their sockets!
Each machine has zero or more Input Sockets. Each socket has a descriptive name, like Mono or Stereo, or Midi.
Each machine also has zero or more Output Sockets. Again, these have descriptive names like Mono, Stereo, Midi or Albert. .. wait, perhaps not Albert.
You probably wonder - where are those pesky sockets? I don't see them! Well... I'll come to that later... Don't worry!
OK, so far so good. There's an important limit to this interconnection business. You can not connect signals of different types. Yes - signals have types. For example, the grooveiator Machine has an output called Mono, this means the type is an audio signal in mono. The liveout machine however has an input called stereo. That's a different type! OH NOES! So - basically, we can not connect the grooveiator with the liveout machine.. I guess we just give up now and go home.. No? NO! Instead we add another machine, the mono2stereo machine. So, use the amazing powers you got from the previous tutorial and create a mono2stereo machine!
Wow, like a work of art! OK, let's get going. Next - tap in the middle of the grooveiator machine, notice how it got bigger? In the process the other machines vanished! And we got that round thing called Mono.... Well, what we did was to focus on the Grooveiator, that action zooms in on the machine and shows its Output Sockets.
Tap on the Mono Output Socket:
You should now be back to the overview. Tap on the mono2stereo machine:
You will now have this:
It looks similar, but now with the Mono socket on the left side! That's cause this is a Input Socket! What are we supposed to do? Well, we have selected an Output Socket called Mono, now we want to connect that to this Input Socket called Mono... So - naturally we just tap the Mono!
After that, they should be connected. A connection is represented with a thin line, like this:
Cool! OK, let's directly proceed and connect mono2stereo with the liveoutsink machine.
The result should be this:
We have a fully connected network of machines, cool!
That is the end of tutorial #3, we have created a network! Proceed to tutorial #4 to learn more!
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