1.1.6 Faderglow; 1.1.7 Tft Level Meters - Studer Vista 9 Operating Instructions Manual

Vista 9 Digital Mixing System
Scrolling a Locked Bay by One Section

1.1.6 FaderGlow

1.1.7 TFT Level Meters

1-12 Introduction
key on a different bay; this will lock all bays in between and form a 'lock
group'. Multiple bays within a lock group will scroll at a time and perform
common global view changes. In this way it is easy to split the desk for two-
operator use.
When both the ScroLL: SEcTIoN and the ScroLL: LocK BAY keys are ON
on a fader bay, this is a special case. When pressing one of the arrow keys on
that specific bay, the display of channels will jump by exactly one section.
This function becomes very obvious when looking at the dark background
indication on the Graphical Controller. This operation mode might be useful
for operators who want to change to a different section with a locked bay.
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During a hectic live production, FaderGlow
instant overview of the console status by illuminating each fader in one of
eight freely-assignable colours.
Now the operator can mark individual, important channels such as present-
ers, main talents and other 'must-never-lose-their-signal' channels. Once the
important channel is colored, it can be found within a fraction of a second,
even after mixing on a different layer and coming back to a channel layout
that may not have been on the surface for some time. Moreover, FaderGlow
allows the operator colouring entire channel groups (such as 'band', 'guest',
'ambience', 'string section', 'rhythm section' channels), in order to distin-
guish them easier and locate them faster. One of eight different colours can
be assigned to any channel strip.
TFT screens allow displaying all sorts of data, for example the metering.
For all possible channel types the metering has to go with it – from mono
over stereo and 5.1 to 7.1, always in the same space. Priority was to have as
large a bar graph meter as possible. In order to bring in more information, a
lower area is configurable and enables different options, depending on the
channel type. It can bring a surround image view or what is called the history
diagram of incoming or outgoing signal waveforms. This shows the history
of the signal and makes it easy to spot anomalies in the audio signal, such
as overloads or signal loss. When focusing on some important channels, one
might miss what's going on somewhere else. If suddenly hearing something
strange, with the history feature a quick look across the console is sufficient
to see what has happened. Another option in the lower portion of the TFTs is a
bus assignment view, giving an overview of the channel's current bus assign-
ment, e.g. on a single channel where bus assignment is changed frequently.
The control bay metering differs from the meter screen on the fader bays; it is
mainly made to show output channels. Different meter views are available for
this screen. It can be switched to a predefined meter view to see all auxiliary
outputs. Or to all groups, or all programme masters, direct outs, bus outputs,
N–1s, matrix channels, etc. In addition there are user pages assignable to
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provides the operator with an
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Date printed: 26.10.10
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