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Monitor ! Window

Scope

Pyramix has a dedicated Monitor section. This extremely powerful tool offers comprehensive monitoring facilities
including summing and downmixing for all supported formats. External Machine Inputs, comprehensive Talkback,
Foldback and External Metering are also supported depending on your system specification.
The Monitor presents monitor outputs of all buses present in the current Mixer as sources. It is also possible to
configure external sources both for recorder returns and for talkback. Sources can be summed for monitoring
without affecting the Mixer bus outputs. This is useful, for example, when you need to listen to a guide track while
recording.
You do not have to use the Monitor and disabling it will save DSP power but, with complex Mixers and routing,
the Monitor helps to keep things logical.
The monitor is also used to output the audio signal from the audition function of the Media Manager and Libraries
as an unformatted input. (I.e. Routed to LRC in a Surround 5.1 Speaker Set and to LR in a Stereo one)
Monitor Hardware Control
Many functions of the Monitor can be mapped to a hardware controller or to the keyboard. To facilitate this, the
commands are available in the Monitor menu. Please see the documentation for your hardware controller,
Remote Control on page 514 and Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts on page 457 .
By default the Monitor window is hidden. It can be opened with View > Monitor or the
View Toolbar.
The Monitor has four pages: a Main Monitor ! page in normal operation, a Configure page for setting up and two
further pages for configuring Externals (machines) and Talkback .

Monitor ! page

The Monitor ! window is divided vertically into three sections.
Sources, left-hand section:
The button top-left of the title bar enables/disables the Monitor and lights yellow when enabled. This allows DSP
power to be saved when comprehensive monitoring control is not required. Below the Enable Monitoring but-
ton is a tree view of all buses used in the mixer. Clicking on the + and - boxes shows and hides branches in the
Monitor : Monitor ! Window
Monitor Main Monitor ! Window
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