General Considerations; Program Assign; Cue Button; Fader - AudioArts Engineering Lightning Technical Manual

General Considerations

If any problems are encountered, please consider the following points:
• If you are not able to get the audio into or out of the USB port, check the USB
cable, its connections at both ends, and the port selection settings in the applica-
tion you are using.
• If you have the audio flowing where you want and it suddenly becomes intermittent
or disappears, check the USB cable and the connections at both ends.
• Once you have the USB audio under control it is a good idea to make a record of
the application being used, including its version number, the audio direction (into
or out of the computer), and all the settings that were required to make it work. This
information will be invaluable if you later have to troubleshoot the USB audio, or
set it up on another computer.

Program Assign

Output switches assign the selected source signal to any combination of
the console's four stereo Program outputs – PGM 1 - PGM 4. The button will
be lit when the source is assigned to its respective bus. To remove a source
from the bus, press the button again; the light will go off to indicate that the
source is no longer assigned to that bus.
The four Program outputs operate the same: the audio from the channel
connects to the assigned PGM bus post-fader and post-channel ON switch. In
other words, to hear the channel's audio on a program bus the channel must
be assigned to that bus (the desired PGM button must be lit), the channel must
be turned on (the ON button must be lit), and the fader must be adjusted to
control the level of the channel audio going to the selected PGM bus.
Recessed front Master panel trimpots adjust the
left and right levels of PGM 1 and PGM 2 VU meters.

CUE Button

A CUE switch places the channel's signal on
the console's cue bus, where it may be heard on the meterbridge mounted cue
speaker, as an interrupt to the console operator's headphones, and as an inter-
rupt to the control room monitor speakers, if so programmed.
Press the CUE button. The channel's input signal will be included in the
console's CUE output at a level that is independent of the fader setting, and
the button will light. The fader does not need to be turned ON. To remove a
fader from cue, press the CUE button again; the light will go off to indicate
the channel is no longer assigned to cue.

Fader

Level is set by a long-throw fader. The fader is the sliding mechanism
that determines how strong is the presence of the input in some of the various
console outputs.
If the fader is all the way down (that is, pulled toward the console operator),
the signal will not be present in either of the two program main buses to which
it is assigned. As the fader is moved up (that is, pushed away from the console
operator) the signal will appear more strongly in each of the main buses to
which it is assigned.
A L / June 2018
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