Crest Audio NEXSYS - VERSION 3.0, Software Manual

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Crest Audio Inc. NexSys v. 3.0
9.2 Related devices
When pointing to a device, right clicking will show a menu of related devices -
those devices sharing the same address. In a CKS amplifier, there may be a
crossover, a load monitor, and a sequential turn-on control as well as the two
amplifier channels. Each is a separate device as far as NexSys is concerned but all
appear on the right-button menu. For instance, right-clicking on CH A shows this related
device menu:
Related Device menu
9.3 Group & Plan Amplifier Control Panel
When in list view, a group level control may be accessed by clicking the group con-
trol panel button at the bottom left of the group window. When in console view, the
left most module is the group control panel. The Plan amplifier control panel is accessed
by the fader button on the left of the toolbar (at the top of the NexSys window.) To open
these controls from the menu select
Group | Control
and/or
Plan | Control.
The Plan & group amplifier controls are very similar. In fact, if you think of the Plan itself
as the largest group available in NexSys, they are identical. So in the following discussion
about how they operate what is said about one applies to the other -- only their scope is dif-
ferent.
Group/Plan Level
The group plan control is pictured here. Notice that the fader ranges from
+83dB to -83dB. It is a relative level to the amplifiers in its group. Positive
changes here will have the same magnitude increase for every amplifier chan-
nel in the group. A negative change here will decrease each amplifier channel
level in the group by the same amount. For instance, if the amp is set to -10,
and the group level is 5, the amp level will increase by 5dB to a level
of -5.
Group and plan level settings are not saved. They are simply relative controls.
However, the changes they have upon the amplifiers they control are saved in
snapshots and in the plan itself.
Group/Plan Level Control Panel
Group/Plan Mute
Pressing the group mute button will mute all of the amplifier channels in the group. Pressing
it again, will unmute all of the channels that the first action muted. Remember, NexSys treats
the amplifier channel with the highest priority. So if you have purposefully muted a single
amplifier channel within a group, unmuting the group will not override that channel’s mute.
These different conditions are conveyed by the “LED” indicator next to the group mute but-
ton.
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