Surround Panning - Midas PRO X Quick Start Manual

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>> To copy and paste an event
1. Right-click the event you want to copy, and then choose Copy from
the menu.
2. Select the scene in which you want to paste the copied event. Or, if the scene
already contains an event(s), select the event after which you want to paste
the copied event.
3. Right-click to open the menu, and then choose Paste.
Show editor
The Show Editor screen lets you very easily copy and paste settings
through scenes.
The panel at the far left of the Show Editor screen shows the sources, such as
channels, GEQs and eff ects, from which you can copy the settings. The Sections
panel in the centre of the screen contains source sections that you can copy to the
scene(s). At the far right of the screen is the Scenelist panel, which is a cue list of
the current show.
>> To open the Show Editor screen
Do one of the following:
• • From the GUI menu, choose home > Automation > Show Editor
• • At the Automation screen, click SHOW EDITOR.
>> To copy and paste sections to a scene(s)
1. In the Show Editor screen, click the sources that contain the sections you
want to copy to a scene(s). These are in the far left panel of the screen.
You can choose any combination of inputs, aux returns, aux sends, matrices,
GEQs, eff ects and masters.
2. In the Sections panel, click the boxes of the sections that you want to copy.
Ticked options will be copied.
3. In the Scenelist panel, click the scene(s) in which you want to paste the
sections. You can use the buttons at the bottom of the list to help you,
as follows:
4. Click ALL to select all of the scenes in the list
5. Click NONE to deselect all selected scenes.
6. Click PASTE TO SCENES.
Saving Your Show Files To A USB Memory Stick
When you are satisfi ed that your show fi le is how you want it, we recommend
that you save it to a removable storage device (USB memory stick). This provides
a valuable back up should the show fi le stored in the internal memory of the
control centre be lost, for example, due to inadvertent deletion.
You can also load show fi les onto the control centre from the same
storage device.
>> To save (export) a show fi le to a USB memory stick
1. If necessary, close and save the show fi le you want to export; you can't
export a show fi le that is open.
2. Insert the USB memory stick into the active USB socket, which is the one
with the active LED. For example, USB key 2.
3. Do one of the following:
• • At the GUI, choose home > Files
• • In the primary navigation zone, press the automation/fi ling screen
access button twice.
4. You may see an "Analysing..." message in the Removable Storage panel,
which means that the MIDAS folder on the USB memory stick is being read.
Wait for the message to clear. Then, in the Control Surface panel, click the
show fi le you want to copy.
5. Click EXPORT.
6. In the Are You Sure you Want To Export? message window, click OK.
The fi le will start copying to the USB memory stick.
7. When your show fi le appears in the Removable Storage panel, it has
fi nished copying to the USB memory stick. Remove the USB memory stick.
>> To load (import) a show fi le from a USB memory stick
The procedure is similar to the export procedure, as detailed in To Save (Export)
A Show File To A USB Memory Stick, but select the fi le to be imported to the
control centre from the Removable Storage panel and then click IMPORT.
Using Copy And Paste
The copy and paste buttons (upper-right corner of GUI) let you copy the
parameters of one/all of a single channel's processing area(s) — such as the
EQ, compressor, gate etc. — and paste them to one/all of the channels of a
similar type.
>> To copy a processing area to a channel/all channels
1. If necessary, navigate the channel's processing area to the channel strip
(see To Select A Processing Area).
2. Click copy.
3. Do one of the following:
• • To copy the processing area to another channel, select the channel
and then click paste. (As the copied parameters are still stored, you
can paste to as many channels as you want)
• • To copy the processing area to all other channels, right-click paste to
open its menu, then choose Paste To All.
>> To copy all parameters to a channel/all channels
1. If necessary, select the channel from which you want to copy all of the
processing areas.
2. Right-click copy to open its menu, and then choose Copy All.
3. Do one of the following:
• • To copy the parameters to another channel, select the desired channel
and then click paste
• • To copy the processing area to all other channels, right-click paste to
open its menu, then choose Paste To All.
Copy and paste rules and restrictions
• • You can only copy and paste similar functions. For example, you can't
copy the input EQ from one channel to the output EQ of another,
as they are diff erent
• • You can only copy and paste across similar channel types.
For example, you cannot copy from an aux and paste to a matrix
• • Copying and pasting across inputs is restricted to the input bays only
• • Channel names are not copied
• • Compressor and gate side chain listen cannot be copied.
User Library (Presets)
The control centre has a user library where you can store settings, such as for the
EQ or the whole channel. For example, you may wish to store the EQ settings of
a singer who may be called upon to perform during a future show. You can then
easily recall these EQ settings to the appropriate channel, when required.
The settings are stored as presets, which are saved in a library. The library fi les
are managed via a Preset Manager screen on the GUI. Here, you can create new
libraries, load existing libraries, save the current library or give it a new name.
You can also delete presets from the library.
Before you can save/load a preset, you need to create a new preset library or
open an existing one. To create a new one, open the Preset Manager screen
(choose home > Preset Manager) and click New. Then, after typing in the
details in the Enter new Library name window, click OK.
>> To save a preset to the user library
1. Make sure that the settings you want to save are assigned to the channel
strip, then click store preset. If the channel's overview is displayed, all of
its settings will be saved in the preset. Otherwise, just the settings of the
displayed processing area will be saved.
2. In the Save Preset window (shown right), type in your chosen preset
name (Preset Name), your name (Preset Author) and any note (Notes)
as necessary.
3. Click OK.
>> To load a preset
1. Make sure that the channel section in which you want to load the settings of
the preset is assigned to the channel strip, then click load preset.
2. In the Load Preset window, click the desired preset.
3. Click OK.
>> To select the surround panning mode
1. At a GUI screen, choose home > Preferences > General to open the
Preferences screen.
Quick Start Guide

Surround Panning

In addition to stereo, the control centre has three surround panning modes:
quad; left, centre, right and surround (LCRS); and 5.1 surround.
To help you visualise the surround panning envelope, the masters processing area
of the GUI channel strip has a spatial diagram (shown right) that updates in real
time when you operate the panning controls.
The surround panning modes are operated via a surround monitoring system,
which uses matrix channels 1 to 6 as the surround bus channels. The channels are
muted via six MUTE buttons in the master bay. Control centre monitor output
connections are via the surround, sub, centre and front XLRs on the rear panel.
The 5.1 panning mode uses all six channels, while quad mode uses four (left and
right on both the front and surround). Although the LCRS mode uses fi ve
channels (front left and right, centre and surround left and right), both surround
channels are the same. (In an LCRS surround panning arrangement, you can have
a single surround speaker positioned directly behind the listener.)
In surround mode, the SIS button routes the channel to the surround buses in
much the same way that the ST button routes to the master buses.
The diagram below shows the location of the surround MUTE buttons and
their matrix channel allocation, and shows the allocation of the surround
MUTE buttons per loudspeaker and the recommended1 5.1 surround
system confi guration.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Matrix channels
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