Live Recording Guide
14
Enabling Input Mode
(HDx and VENUE MADI with VENUE software
2.8.5 and Higher Only)
In Input mode, Pro Tools is the main source of
audio signals for your VENUE system. Audio
channels from Pro Tools appear one-for-one in
place of Stage inputs in the VENUE Patchbay.
To replace Stage inputs with inputs from
Pro Tools:
1
Put your system into Config mode
2
Go to the Options page and click the System
tab to access the System Configuration page.
3
Click
Edit
.
4
In the Inputs section of the System Configura-
tion page, beneath Inputs 1–48, select
HDx1
(or
MADI 1),
then select
Input Mode
from the pop-up
menu.
5
For systems with a second HDx or MADI card,
do the following:
• Select
Enable HDx2
(or
Enable MADI 2
).
– and –
• In the Inputs section of the System Config-
uration page, beneath Inputs 49–96, select
MADI 2
, then select
Input Mode
from the
pop-up menu.
6
For each MADI card present, click the Input
Format pop-up menu and choose one of the fol-
lowing input options:
Optical Priority (default)
The optical input is au-
tomatically selected and made active when a
valid input signal is detected on the optical in-
put. If signal is being sent simultaneously to
both the optical and the coaxial inputs, only the
optical input will be active.
Optical
Only the optical input is active,
whether or not a valid MADI connection exists.
Coaxial
Only the coaxial input is active, whether
or not a valid MADI connection exists.
Enabling Input mode for inputs 1–48 (HDx shown)
Enable Stage 2 and HDx2
Enabling Input mode for Stage 2 inputs (HDx shown)
It is possible to use HDx2 or MADI 2 inputs
even if a second Stage Rack (Stage 2) is not
present in the system. A second Snake card
must be installed in your FOH Rack. See the
Snake Card guide for more information.
Selecting the MADI input format