Studer Vista 9, Operating Instructions Manual

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Vista 9 Digital Mixing System
GC Operation 4-5
Date printed: 28.0.0 SW V4.5
If no gang is present, the whole console settings will be saved in a full snap-
shot. If the ‘New Snapshots include:’ setting is set to ‘No Mask’, there will
always be made a full snapshot, regardless of a gang being present or not. It
is also possible to set the partial snapshot to ‘Active Snapshot Filter’. This
will actually create a partial snapshot out of the settings currently
not masked
out by a Snapshot Filter.
Saving Snapshot Masks When working with partial snapshots (option available in ‘Option: ‘Snapshot
Automation’), it is possible to right-click on the
Edit
link to the right of the
snapshots. A context menu will allow not only copying and pasting of masks
between snapshots, but also saving and loading of masks to/from files. The
files will be saved in the
C:\d950System\Users
directory.
This function can be very helpful when multiple operators are working on
the console. During rehearsals, both operators may randomly save snapshots.
After the rehearsal they select ‘their’ snapshots and apply a prepared mask to
them. This will make these particular snapshots only influence the part of the
console which the operator was working on. Other applications may contain
any recall of more complex masks.
Editing Snapshot Masks If a partial snapshot already has been made and the user finds that he forgot to
have some channels in that snapshot, there is a powerful method to correct the
mask contained in a partial snapshot. As it has been mentioned at the begin-
ning of this chapter, each snapshot file in general contains all settings of the
console. A partial snapshot just adds an invisible mask to the audio settings.
Therefore it is possible to enter an edit mode, showing the
mask of a partial
snapshot and giving the possibility to edit it. Let’s say you had channels 1 to 5
in a gang and made a partial snapshot of them, it is easily possible afterwards
to tell the system that this snapshot should have also contained the channel 6
data. How to do this?