EAW UMX.96, Owner'S Manual

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EAW UMX.96 Owner’s Manual VCA Control Section
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• If the selected channel is already displayed in the master section (e.g., it is a VCA), then the displayed
channels do not change but the VCA buttons still both light to illustrate that the faders are in channel fol-
low mode.
Once the channel is displayed, the channel follow mode follows the selected channel button push, so push-
ing select on a user bank (or if the channel is selected by select follows fader or select follows solo), that
bucket displays. Alternately, if advancing using the channel up/down ar-
rows in the selected channel section, then the displayed bucket is the true
channel location, and not the user bank, even if the user bank bucket was
previously displayed.
10.2 Master Faders Area
These three faders control the Main Left, Right, and Center/Mono signals.
ASSIGN Button — Like the ASSIGN buttons on the 48 channel faders,
these tricolor buttons are used to assign the master faders to VCAs and
Mute Groups. No other assignments are possible. See Sections 10.1 (VCAs)
and 11.3 (Mute Groups) for details.
MUTE Button — The
MUTE
button lights when the corresponding main
channel is muted. It will flash when muted by a VCA or Mute Group.
Pressing
CTRL+MUTE
disables the mutes of the master channels. This is
indicated by a triple blink to off (blink/blink/blink/off) on all three of the
master
MUTE
buttons. They can be re-enabled from the
SETUP>GENERAL
screen or by
CTRL+
Clicking on one again. This is useful to prevent acci-
dentally muting the mains and inadvertently stopping the show.
SELECT Button
— Like the select buttons on the 48 channel faders, the
Main
SELECT
button focuses the corresponding Main channel for control
on the Selected Channel controls and the touchscreen.
Fader — These three touch sensitive motorized faders set the levels for
the Left, Right, and Center/Mono System Outputs.
Note: Don’t overlook setting the console’s operating mode to either
LR+Mono or LCR via the Setup>Operation screen.
Holding
CTRL
and touching a fader returns the fader to the bottom off
position. This allows you to quickly reset a group of faders by holding
CTRL
and sliding your finger across a series of faders.
LINK button
— The control surface
LINK
button links or unlinks the Left, Right, and Center/Mono faders,
without affecting the DSP linking. This allows you to quickly offset the fader settings by turning the
LINK
button off, change the fader settings, and then turn the
LINK
button back on (you can also do this by hold-
ing the
SHIFT
button and adjusting one of the faders). When one fader reaches the max gain value the lesser
fader value will not go higher.
The DSP for the Left, Right, and Center/Mono channels can be unlinked by simultaneously pressing their
SELECT
buttons. Simultaneously press the left and right
SELECT
buttons to unlink their DSP. Simultaneously
press all three
SELECT
buttons to completely separate the three master faders.
Fader linking has other considerations that are related to the console’s operating mode. See Section
12.10.1.1 under Setup>Operation for more information.
SOLO Button — The SOLO button routes the channel’s pre-fader or after-fader signal to the appropriate solo
bus for monitoring. Refer to Section 6.2.1 for more info on Master LRC solo routing.