Studer Vista 5 M3, Operating Instructions Manual

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Vista 5 M3 Digital Mixing System
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recording is then started either by touching a control (fader or rotary knob),
by pressing a key (e.g. MUTE ), or by a click on the pause button. Once the
recording is complete, click on stop.
The easiest way to record different controls at once (such as for a cross-fade),
this is best done on the console. However, since the automation system allows
several record passes with different controls, one after the other, a cross-fade
can also be recorded with Virtual Vista on the online editor, or even on the
offline editor.
All mix passes are saved, and if the operator is unhappy with the last one (or
several of them), he just uses the Kill Pass x button in order to delete as many
of the mix passes as desired. Please note that no ‘undo’ function is available
for the
Kill Pass x
button.
The cue mix files are saved in the CueMixFiles subfolder of the
D950SYSTEM folder (main D950 projects folder). They follow the same
folder structure as the ones of the standard automation mix files and can, of
course, be exchanged with them. In other words, any existing automation mix
file may be copied into the CueMixFiles subfolder of the current produc-
tion, and vice versa, except that the cue mix files are not saved pass-by-pass.
For more information, please refer to chapter 5.4 .
VCA/Mute Events
VCA/mute events must be activated in the Option – Snapshot Automation
window by ticking Enable VCA Events , as shown above.
Particularly in large, cue-based musicals, assigning channels to VCA masters
provides the basis for the mixing console cue list. It is very easy just to use
a small number of VCA masters during the show, reassigning slave channels
from cue to cue, instead of working on a very large number of input channels
directly.
One of the main tasks when setting up a cue list for a production is assigning
the appropriate channels to VCA masters on every single cue. With VCA/
mute events this is achieved very easily.
After a double-click on the desired VCA/mute event in the cue list, the VCA
details window opens.