Studer Vista 1 Operating Instructions Manual page 282

Vista 1 Digital Mixing System
Talk to the Conference
Temporary Conference Deactivation
Conference Level
Monitoring the Conference Using the MPX Bus
4-106 GC Operation
strip setup window.
The conference icon in the Tools tab has (only two) states:
Grayed out : No conference active nor defined
Grayed out : Conference active (if member faders closed)
Grayed out, crossed out : Conference defined, but temporarily deactivated
(even if member faders closed).
Note: In certain circumstances, also an aux master can be selected as a conference
member (indicated by its half-lit LINK / SEL key). This is intended for adding
e.g. an on-air signal to the conference. See details below.
When pressing the TALK key on a channel which is currently conferencing,
the talk function is automatically activated on all members of the conference
at the same time.
The conferencing may temporarily be deactivated by clicking on the confe-
in the toolbar or the CONF ON key. In this case the conference
rence icon
definition is retained. As soon as the conference is reactivated globally (by
pressing CONF ON or clicking on the conference icon in the toolbar again),
the previously selected channels may talk to each other again. Temporary
activation of the CONF ON key is possible as well.
While in conference mode, the N–X send level of the channel conferencing
may be adjusted. This level will then be used as a conference send level only.
When opening the fader, the level previously set returns. In other words, the
system remembers two level settings; one of them is active when conferen-
cing, the other one is activated in normal N–X mode.
Within the new Configuration Editor software, the MPX bus type has been
added. This bus only exists once within a configuration (similar to a PFL
bus) and is used to monitor the conference. It is a mono bus. Any channel
currently conferencing is automatically assigned to the MPX bus, and the
MPX bus output may be monitored using a source selector key. Since the
MPX bus output is a normal bus output, it can also be patched to any console
output. This allows, for example, feeding this signal to a small loudspeaker
for constantly playing back the conference signal.
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