The MIOConsole3d Application
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You can create and assign DCAs from the Mixer desk surface by hitting the ‘DCA’ selector button at the
bottom of any Input or Bus strip. This opens the ‘DCA Assign’ window. The window is titled at the top with
the window function and the name of the Mixer Strip from which you opened the window.
On the left, the ‘Available’ list presents you with all DCAs not currently assigned to your target strip. On
the right, under ‘Assigned’, are listed DCAs which are already assigned to your selected strip.
Click on the ‘Add New DCA…’ to begin.
•
‘Add New DCA…’
will immediately create a new DCA in the ‘Assigned’ list. Note that this new DCA
also appears immediately in the DCAs section of the “Configure Mixer” window.
Please note
: Although ‘Add New DCA…’ immediately creates and assigns a new DCA, all other
assignment functions must be applied by hitting the ‘Apply’ button, ‘
Enter
’ or ‘
Return
’ keys.
The ‘Cancel’ button, ‘
Esc
’ key or ‘
cmd .
’ key command will cancel new assignments, but will not
undo newly created DCAs.
• The
Single Arrow
buttons in the ‘DCAs Assign’ window are for moving DCAs between the ‘Available’
and ‘Assigned’ lists in the direction the arrow points. Make a selection in the ‘Available’ list and
click the “
>
” button to move your selection to ‘Assigned’. Use the standard macOS “shift-click” or
“command-click” keystrokes to make multiple selections of the DCAs in either list and move them
all at once.
• The
Double Arrow
buttons will move all of the DCAs from ‘Available’ to ‘Assigned’, and vice versa.
• Double-click a DCA to move it immediately to the opposite list.
• By entering a number in the
‘Cascade to __ strips’
box and enabling ‘Cascade’, you can assign your
DCA across that number of strips, starting with your selected strip moving to the right across the
Mixer. In the example above, entering “4” in ‘Cascade to __ strips’ and checking the ‘Cascade’
enable box would assign your selected DCAs to the four strips visible in the screenshot.
• By selecting multiple strips in the Mixer, then hitting one of the highlighted strips ‘DCA’ selector
buttons, the ‘DCA Assign’ window will replace ‘Cascade to __ strips’ with
‘Cascade to selected strips’
‘Cascade to selected strips’ will be checked, and upon hitting ‘Apply’ your DCA selection will be
applied to all of your selected Mixer strips.
• When multiple DCAs are assigned to a Mixer strip, the DCA selector button for that strip will show
as much of the first DCA name as will fit in the width of the strip, plus a (
+
) sign or an ellipsis (
…
) to
indicate there's more than one. Hover the mouse cursor over the DCA selector button and a tool-
tip will pop up showing all DCAs assigned to that strip:
Figure 10.128: Tooltip revealing multiple DCA assignments
• To delete a DCA entirely, select the DCA control strip and hit
cmd-shift-d
, or “Delete Strips” from
the menu bar Mixer menu.
