Studer Vista 9, Operating Instructions Manual

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Vista 9 Digital Mixing System
4-0 GC Operation
Date printed: 28.0.0 SW V4.5
4.4.2.6.1 Automatic Label Propagation
The philosophy on Vista consoles concerning labeling is not to name any
labels
within channels
, but to name
patch sources
in the General Patch, let-
ting the system propagate them to the connected channels. Specifically, we
are talking about two kinds of labels which will be propagated in this way:
Device labels (technical labels), and User labels (session labels, e.g. track
sheet). This also supports the workflow, whereby the operator first names his
sources and then patches them to any possible channel.
Advantages: If a source is connected to more than one channel, or if a patch
is changed, the labels are correctly updated on the actually patched channels.
You see what you hear!
User Labels Device Labels Fixed Labels
(Targets)
AES #1 Vocal Track 1
e.g. e.g. e.g.
( Sources )
Change View by Clicking
on Label Type Button
in the GC's Toolbar
Channel
Vocal
Track 1
Displays e.g.:
General Patch
How to Proceed: • Switch on the ‘Use Device Labels’ option in the SysAdmin/Device Labels
menu.
• Switch on the ‘Overwrite Chan. User label with Device Label’ option in
the SysAdmin/Device Labels menu.
• There must be a file ‘
__DeviceLabels.pre
’ present, which holds your
device labels (technical labels), e.g. ‘Studio 1’, ‘Mic 1’).
•
Type your track sheet into the USER LABEL field of the General Patch.
• Patch Sources to Channels, and you will see session labels displayed in the
top line of each channel You may have to press the
GLOBAL VIEW: LABEL
TYPE
key a few times until you see device labels or fixed labels (the actual
channel number) in the second line.