Control Bay Overview - Studer Vista 9 Operating Instructions Manual

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Control Bay Overview

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Date printed: 27.0.0
The control bay hosts twelve faders and a Vistonics™ screen, as well as the
keys for monitoring functions, dynamic automation, talkback etc., as known
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from other Vista consoles. The faders and the Vistonics™ screen are fully
independent from the rest of the console in terms of view changes and scroll-
ing. A separate set of four keys provides independent scrolling functionality
of this section. In the strip setup window of the Graphical Controller, a second
page is available, in order to set-up the strip usage of the control bay. Four
fader pages with ten strips each are provided as a standard. By scrolling once
to the left and the right, an extension of up to 120 strips is available for chan-
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nel access within the control bay.
The Vistonics™ screen is used as a collection of 40 level controls, usually
representing a duplicate view of the fader bays' channel faders. The Viston-
ics™ controls will then give access to the channel faders and graphically
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indicate their settings. Tweaking any of the console's output levels is therefore
extremely easy and fast.
The control bay is subdivided into 19 different areas:
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Area [1] is used for powering the desk up/down and switchover from the
main to the redundant control system, and vice versa. This area also contains
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the TB mic socket.
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Area [2] contains the control bay and monitor metering with a TFT screen.
Area [3] contains the 9-pin machine control panel (optional).
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Area [4] is the monitoring source selector (for all controllable rooms).
Area [5] is the CR monitoring control unit (Level, Solo, Dim, Mute...).
Area [6] is the studio monitoring control unit (Level, Solo, Dim, Mute...).
Area [7] is used for talkback and headphones control.
Area [8] is the global automation control for AutoTouch+ automation.
Area [9] is used for control and mute group as well as conference setup.
Area [10] hosts the Vistonics™ element with 10 × 4 on-screen rotary controls
and a touch screen area. Some rounded keys are located next to the screen in
order to change parameter views on the Vistonics™ screen. The Vistonics™
module can act as a channel-strip-specific control, dedicating four rotary
controls as well as their associated bitmaps and graphical displays of the most
important settings to each channel strip.
Area [11] contains a central channel processing panel and various controls
dedicated to each channel strip: Audio functions on/off, Copy/Paste, and other
standard elements, such as input selector and gain control.
Area [12] holds two 'grand master' faders that can be assigned to any two
faders within the console surface in order to have them always at hand.
In area [13] the motorized joystick for panning is located.
Area [14] is the mute group selector.
Area [15] contains a trackball for operating the Graphical Controller applica-
tion and keys duplicated from the control system keyboard (e.g. Ctrl, Enter,
cursor keys); hardware keys for selecting major pages in the Graphical Con-
troller; and dedicated keys for snapshot operation.
Area [16] is the section navigator with keys for navigation (section jumps/
scrolling) through the console.
Area [17] is the fader page selector that allows scrolling the control bay over
a range of up to 120 channels, independent from the fader bays.
Area [18] contains shortcut keys for operating the cue list.
Area [19] contains spare keys for future functions and/or options.
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