Midas PRO X Quick Start Manual page 18

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>> To assign channels to a VCA/POP group
1. Press and hold down the LCD select button of the desired group (VCA or
POP). For example, "Kit" in the VCAs (as shown above). The group's LCD
select button will start fl ashing when you are in group member selection
mode and the inputs will jump to program mode.
2. While still holding down the LCD select button, do one of the following:
• • To assign an input channel to the group, press the LCD select button
of the desired input channel. Repeat for any other input channels you
want in the group. For example, "Kik 1", "Sn1", "Hihat" and "Tom"
(shown above). If necessary, scroll to a new bank of input channels
• • To assign an output channel to the group, press the LCD Select button
of the desired output channel. Repeat for any other output channels
you want in the group. If necessary, navigate the desired output
channels to the control surface. The LCD Select button of any output
channels that are at the control surface and are group members will
illuminate. Individual output select buttons will fl ash if their bank
contains a member of the current group.
3. Release the group LCD select button. The group now contains the channel
members you have just assigned and the group will be selected.
4. To exit the group, quickly press the group LCD select button.
Confi guring VCA/POP groups
The default name and associated colour of a group, which appear on its LCD
select button and on the GUI, can be confi gured to suit your own preference.
You can also globally change the colour of the group members to match the
group colour.
Confi guration is carried out at the Group Sheet screen.
NOTE: Clicking the control knob icon will take you to the VCA Groups
screen (a submenu of the Control Groups option), which provides group
management control.
>> To access the Group Sheet screen
Do one of the following:
• • At the GUI, choose home > Control Groups > Group Sheet
• • In the primary navigation zone, press the vca/assignable controls
screen access button.
>> To set up the name of a VCA/POP group
Do one of the following:
• • Choose from a list of pre-confi gured names by clicking the pencil
icon of the group. In the drop-down list, click the name of your choice,
for example, "E Gtr". Scroll the list, if required
• • Type in a new name by clicking within the name fi eld of the group.
The pointer will change to a white fl ashing I-shaped cursor, which
will appear at the end of the name fi eld. Type in the new name via the
keyboard (maximum six characters).
>> To set up the colour of a VCA/POP group
1. Click the palette icon of the group.
2. In the palette, click your chosen colour.
>> To set up the colour of a VCA/POP group and all of its members
Click the fi ll icon of the group. The colour of all group members will now match
that of the group.
Setting Up A Mix
The control centre has 96 confi gurable mix buses (72 auxes and 24 matrices);
the auxes can be set to mixes, subgroups or mix minus. All of the mixes can
also be set up as stereo pairs or mono. 24 matrix outputs can also be accessed
directly from input channels via level controls, which gives the control centre the
ability to provide 32 discrete mixes, plus left, right and mono. The mix sections
(input fast strips) and the mix and sends sections (mix and master bays)
provide mix control and navigation, while the bus mode selection is via GUI only.
Similarly to the inputs and groups, identifi cation of mixes is by colour coding.
The overview displays in the GUI channel strip (see below) show the status of the
mixes, which are colour coordinated to match those in the sends section of the
control surface.
>> To select the mix bus mode
1. Select the mix bus (see To Select A Mix Bus).
2. Press the quick access button (adjacent to the fi lters section) to assign the mix
overview to the channel strip. For example, the aux send overview for AuxS1.
3. Click a non-control area within one of the sections (for example, dir in)
to open the confi guration processing area in the GUI channel strip.
4. Click MODE repeatedly to scroll through the mix modes (mix, group and
mix minus) to select the one you want. Group mode is fader only with no
pre-fader, and in mix minus mode all buses are initially routed — you have
to turn a bus routing switch on to take it out of the mix. Stereo mix mode
— with mix selected and LINK button on — is only accessed from the odd
numbered output channel of the linked pair. In stereo mix mode the top
control knob becomes pan adjust and the bottom one adjusts level. When
creating a stereo mix, you can use either the odd or even output to link the
two channels, but the mode of the odd channel is used on both.
>> To set up a mono aux mix
1. Making sure that the mix bus is not linked, select mix (see To Select The
Mix Bus Mode).
Quick Start Guide
2. Select the input channel (see To Select An Input Channel).
3. At the GUI, click within the appropriate sends section (aux or matrices) in the
overview display to open its processing area.
4. In the mix (upper) section, do the following:
• • Press PRE to select pre-fader (on) or post-fader (off ).
• • Press ON to route the aux mix from input to aux output
• • Adjust the level control knob to change the signal level.
You have the option to adjust them using the pan/fader controls in the input fast
zone (12-channel input bay); this is known as "fl ip" mode. (You can also adjust
them in the GUI channel strip — overview or processing area — using drag.)
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