Studer Vista 5 M3, Operating Instructions Manual

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Vista 5 M3 Digital Mixing System
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4.4.5.3.3 Rehearsal Phase
Once the basic settings are transferred to and saved within the console and the
rehearsals are at a stage where the original cast is rehearsing, e.g. already in
costumes and with the stage props, the cue list can be completed with library
events where necessary.
Library Events Library events can be used to make the necessary parameter changes on a
cue-by-cue basis, without the need of using snapshots to accomplish these
changes. This makes the workflow easier, faster and more straightforward,
allowing the operator focusing on the mix, rather than having to remember
appropriate snapshot and snapshot filter states.
Library event settings are visible in the clipboard library window that is
opened with a click on the clipboard library icon . The collected settings
are organized in such a way that a setting or a number of settings belong to
a particular actor. Just select the desired actor from the Actor drop-down list
to display his settings.
If the Actors have not been created already, they can also be created on the
fly, together with the actual library event settings by copying them from a
channel strip. To do this, proceed as outlined below.
• Go to the desired channel strip on the desk surface and copy the current
setting of the desired processing block (or a combination of several pro-
cessing blocks – PAN, EQ, DYN, INS/DEL, FILT, or ALL parameters of
a channel at once) with the or keys.
• Paste it into the library under the desired actor. If the actor does not yet
exist, it can be created while the copied parameters remain in the temporary
clipboard.
• While being pasted into the library under an actor, the setting needs to
be given a name. The naming of the setting is important, since later on
only the names of the settings are shown on the Vistonics screen, and the
operator needs to be able to select to appropriate setting just from reading
the name.
• Once a setting is saved in the library, it still needs to be applied to the
desired cue(s). For this purpose, the identification concept uses the names
of the library settings.
Add a Library Event to a Cue
First, select the actors view on the Vistonics screen by pressing the (Shift)
and ( INPUT ) keys. This is a global actor view across all Vistonics
channels; a particular actor is also shown when opening the channel view
using the key.
With a right-click in the Events column of a cue and selecting the library
event symbol from the list that drops down, a library event is added to
that cue. An alternative way to do this is by dragging-and-dropping the library
event symbol from the Events area at the left of the cue list into the Events
column of the desired cue.
By clicking on the icon once, the Configuration area opens in the lower left
corner of the cuelist page. When right-clicking in this area, channels (i.e.,
characters), actors and library entries can be selected.
If the desired library setting has already been added to the actors’ library, it
can be dialed up with the Setting Vistonics rotary and applied to that specific
channel in the current cue with the Apply key. If there are no other library
events further down the cue list, the applied library setting will remain active