Edit Global Filter Mode - SoundCraft Vi1 User Manual

Global Filter settings are indicated on the Vistonics screens by means of the colour purple, as follows:
A complete purple border around an input channel or output bus = full channel/bus isolated
A wide purple LED indicator in the top left of a function block = complete function block isolated
A narrow purple LED indicator in the top left of a function block & individual purple parameter
icons in the function block = some parameters isolated
Purple parameter name(s) within a zoomed function block = parameter isolated
A horizontal purple bar across the screens (except the control bay) indicates that the whole
console is in Edit Global Filter mode (see later).
*Note: if there is no FX assigned to an output bus the purple border will not encompass the FX function
block.
Remember that the Global Filter of the console can also be edited directly on the console surface, without
losing control of the majority of the surface, by using the [ISO] keys, as described on the previous page.
In conjunction with the Gang function, the [ISO] keys enables horizontal groups of channels, function
blocks or individual parameters to be quickly set in and out of isolate (Global Filter) mode.

Edit Global Filter Mode

The {EDIT} GLOBAL FILTER key (see Fig 15-18) will switch the whole console into an edit mode which is
the equivalent of 'Press & Hold on all ISO keys at the same time'. (ISO keys continue to work, but only
with their 'Isolate All on this Channel' function, in this edit mode. There is no actual press & hold ISO
functionality in this mode – it is not required).
In this mode the horizontal bars across all VST screens (except the control bay) will change from their
normal colour (Blue or Red) to Purple, to indicate that audio can no longer be controlled from the VST
screens.
Selecting function blocks or individual parameters is then done as follows: touch the function block with a
short press to select the whole block (indicated by the wide purple indicator) or press & hold the function
block to enter zoom mode, where individual parameters can be touch selected (or by VST key).
Note that the filter parameters being edited here are the same ones that are set by the "holding down
[ISO] key" method previously described.
The reason for having two methods of editing the same parameters (locally using ISO or globally using Edit
Global Filter mode) is that whilst the ISO method allows very fast, immediate control of channel filtering,
even using Gang in addition to quickly set filters across the whole console, if there are a lot of parameters
to be set into Isolate mode, the latching Edit Global Mode will be easier to use.
The [SEL] key is used to select whole channel to isolate mode. The [ISO] key can still also be used.
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