Monitor and Cue Controllers
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Mono
: Folds a stereo or multichannel Cue feed down to mono.
•
Lock
Gain: When selected, it turns purple and disables the Cue gain control.
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Dim
: Dims the Cue output -20dB.
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Mute
: Mutes the Cue.
• Cue output
Gain
: Volume control for this Cue.
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“-”
and
“+”
(Decrement and Increment Gain): Clicking these buttons will subtract 0.5dB from, or
add 0.5dB to the current volume level, respectively.
Monitor/Cue source management
The MC Source selection is also used as a dynamic input source by the Cue Controllers. It is always at the
top of each Cue Source selection menu, listed as “MC Source”. With “MC Source” selected, that Cue will
play the currently selected Monitor Controller Source.
• Signal from the 3d Mixer Main Mix bus will always be the first selection in the ‘MC Source’ selector.
This is a permanent connection from the 3d mixer.
• Group and Aux buses are assigned as Monitor Controller sources by default. Each bus may be
Monitor Controller is managed from the menu bar
window.
Figure 11.10: Assignment of bus outputs as Monitor Controller sources
The graphic above shows the Aux and Group ‘Monitor Control’ settings in the “Configure Mixer”
window. In this example, Aux #1 and Group #1 are both selected as “In MC”, meaning they are
available as audio sources in the Monitor Controller source selector. Aux buses #2, 3 and 4 are “Not
In MC” and therefore are not routed to the Monitor Controller source selector.
Figure 11.11: Monitor and Cue Controller sources as assigned
Please keep in mind
: Since all Cue Controller inputs are provided by the Monitor Controller source
selector, removing a Monitor Controller source will also remove it as a Cue Controller source.
• MC sources from Group and Aux buses and any hardware inputs, will be listed left-to-right in the
order they are created.
