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D-Control Guide 130
Interrogating Bus and I/O Assignments
Momentary and Latching Operation
When interrogating bus assignments or I/O assignments, you
can display them momentarily or latch them on. Latching the
display of assignments is useful when banking faders to locate
off-bank indications.
To display bus and I/O assignments momentarily:
„
Touch the encoder showing the assignment.
To latch display of bus and I/O assignments:
„
Double-tap the encoder showing the assignment.
To exit latched display of bus and I/O assignments:
„
Press the flashing Escape switch.
Off-Bank Indications
When interrogating bus assignments (in either momentary or
latched display), any off-bank assignment are indicated by
flashing Bank/Nudge switches. Slow flashing indicates that an
assignment is one button press away; Fast flashing indicates
that an assignment is multiple presses away. The Soft Key dis-
play shows “Nudge 1,” “Nudge 8” and “Bank.” The left and
right Soft Keys flash to indicate the presence of off-bank as-
signments.
Interrogating Bus Assignments
D-Control allows both forward interrogation of outputs to bus
paths and reverse interrogation of inputs from bus paths on
Audio tracks or Auxiliary Input tracks.
To interrogate a track output to a bus (forward bus
interrogation):
1
Press and hold the Sends switch on a track that has the bus
as an output assignment. The channel goes into I/O view,
showing the input and output for the track in its channel strip
encoders.
2
Touch (or double-tap) the encoder showing the bus assign-
ment on the output. The channel Select switch flashes on
tracks with that bus assigned as an input.
To interrogate a send to a bus (forward bus interrogation):
1
Press the Sends switch on a track that has the bus as a Send
assignment.
2
Hold Control (Windows) or Command (Mac) and press the
B/M/P switch under the send. All sends on the track spill to
the track’s encoders.
3
Touch (or double-tap) the encoder showing the bus assign-
ment on the send. The channel Select switch flashes on tracks
with that bus assigned as an input.
To interrogate a track input from a bus (reverse bus
interrogation):
1
Press and hold the Sends switch on a track that has the bus
as an input assignment. The channel goes into I/O view, show-
ing the input and output for the track in its channel strip en-
coders.
2
Touch (or double-tap) the encoder showing the bus assign-
ment on the input. The channel Select switch flashes on tracks
with that bus as an output. Both the channel Select switch and
the channel Send switch flash on tracks with that bus as a send
assignment.
Interrogating I/O Assignments
D-Control allows interrogation of matching input or output
assignments (including interface, bus, or MIDI paths) on Au-
dio, Auxiliary Input, MIDI, Instrument, or Master Fader tracks.
To interrogate a track input or output:
1
Press and hold the Sends switch on a track that has the input
or output assignment. The channel goes into I/O view, show-
ing the input and output for the track in its channel strip en-
coders.
2
Hold Shift and touch (or double-tap) the encoder showing
the input or output assignment. The channel Select switch
flashes on all tracks that have the same input or output.
Making Elements Active or Inactive
You can make Inputs, Outputs, Inserts, Sends, and entire
tracks active or inactive directly from D-Control by entering a
temporary Make Inactive mode.
To toggle an input, output, send, or plug-in active/inactive:
1
Make sure the channel is showing the top-level view for the
element you want to make active/inactive.
2
Press a Make Inactive switch to enter the appropriate Make
Inactive mode.
3
Press the Bypass/Mute/Pre switches on encoders to deacti-
vate or reactivate their corresponding track elements.
4
Press the flashing Make Inactive switch to exit Inactive
mode.
To toggle a track inactive/active:
1
Press any of the Make Inactive switches.
2
Press channel strip Select buttons to deactivate or reactivate
the corresponding tracks.
3
Press the flashing Make Inactive switch to exit Inactive
mode.