Midas PRO6, Owner'S Manual

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PRO6 Live Audio System
Owner’s Manual
Chapter 7: Navigation
This chapter introduces you to PRO6 navigation and shows you how to use the
navigational tools of the PRO6 Control Centre.
For information on navigating the scenes in automation, refer to “Managing the scenes”
on page 94.
An introduction to PRO6 navigation
The PRO6 provides you with unique navigational controls to quickly and easily access
the items, such as channels, buses, groups and processing areas, that you will require
for mixing.
Navigation is an important feature of the PRO6 Control Centre. One of the advantages
digital consoles have over analogue ones is that their channel count is not limited by
the control surface hardware. However, this means that only a certain amount of
channels can be at the control surface at any time, while the others are ‘hidden’. So,
navigation is required to access these hidden channels whenever you need them.
The way the PRO6 is set to operate may alter the function of some of the navigational
controls. For more information, see “Operating modes” on page 35.
How the input channels are managed
To aid navigation the 56 input channels are grouped into 14 ‘banks’ of four channels
each. The banks contain the following consecutively numbered channels: 1 — 4,
5 — 8, 9 — 12 etc., up to 53 — 56. (Figure 7 shows the number of consoles required to
show all of the available inputs simultaneously.)
Figure 7: All inputs
During normal operation, four banks of input channels populate the input bays (see
Figure 8 “Input channels in the input bays” on page 48). These are displayed across
the control surface in ascending order from left to right.
1-12 13-16 17-28 28-32 33-44 45-48 49-56