Studer Vista, Operating Instructions Manual

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D950/Vista Digital Mixing System
4-12 GC Operation
SW V3.3 Date printed: 05.08.03
4.3.2 The Session Configuration
The Session Configuration is the physical and electrical definition of the
D950/Vista Digital Mixing System installed at your recording studio or
production facility. Session Configuration contains data about the mixing
console channels, the patch, the labels, and so on. A Session Configuration
must be loaded in order for the console to function.
We often refer to the Virtual Mixing Console (VMC) when speaking about
the Session Configuration. VMC is another concept that forms the very
foundation of a D950/Vista: all functions and the current Session Configu-
ration data are stored within the VMC. A simplified definition of the VMC
is:
”The VMC is a data structure containing descriptions of the console’s
functions, including all the current statuses of all functions.”
That is why, as we will see later, all the Session Configuration files have
the extension
*.vmc
.
Because of the flexibility provided by the Session Configuration Tool, you
can create customized, application specific, console configurations. In
most cases the facility’s D950/Vista system administrator will create the
necessary Session Configurations. However, there are some cases where
you will not need to be concerned with the Session Configuration, because
the one configuration that was loaded at the Studer factory will remain
loaded and active unless you changed it. The last-loaded Session Configu-
ration will remain loaded and active until it is either changed, or another
one is loaded.
If a production is recalled that has been created with an other Session Con-
figuration, the correct Session Configuration will be automatically loaded.
Please refer to chapter 7 for more details.