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I N P U T P A N E L
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D-9 / Oct 2003
SET Button
This allows the operator to access vari-
ous controls and displays on the EFS and
DCM panels and apply them to the se-
lected channel. SET can access GROUP,
MIX-MINUS, DYNAMICS and EQ func-
tions. To use, press the SET button and
then make your appropriate section set-
tings in other areas of the control surface.
Once a SET button has been pressed, the
button lights up, and all of the central
section controls (EQ, MODE, DYNAM-
ICS, etc.) display the current settings for
that input channel until a different input
SET button is pressed. Or if you don’t use
any SET-related controls for 20 seconds,
the current SET selection will time out and the SET button will go off.
Page Button
The PAGE function allows each physical channel strip to control two
strips worth of audio. This would allow a 16 fader control surface, for
example, to control 32 channels of audio. Fader #1 would control audio
channel 1 when the PAGE button is off, and would control audio channel
17 when the PAGE button is on. Likewise, faders 2-16 would control audio
channels 2-16 when their respective PAGE button were off, and audio
channels 18-32 with the PAGE button is on. Each audio channel controlled
by a fader is controllable separately via the PAGE button, yet both audio
channels are available simultaneously. That is, if you have just set the level
for channel 17 using fader 1 with the PAGE button on, turning the PAGE
button off switches control to channel 1, but channel 17 continues to sound.
On the top of MASTER panel (see Chapter 4) there are page buttons
which allow groups of input channels to be paged simultaneously.
DCM (Digital Control Master) Displays
Each channel can be assigned to any combination of the four DCM
masters (DCM-D9 panel). The assigned setting is displayed in the DCMS
ABCD display group. Any channel that is assigned to a DCM will have its
level controlled in a subgroup manner, much like a VCA in an analog
control surface. For example, all announcer voices could be on DCM A,
all remotes could be assigned to DCM B, and commercial source material
could be on DCM C. The channels can then be easily adjusted in groups
by means of faders on the DCM panel. Furthermore, these DCMs may be
used as group mutes, to cut out or in an entire bank of faders by simply
toggling the appropriate MUTE switch on the DCM panel.
Channels are assigned to these DCMs in the following manner: press
the channel SET button on the input fader section and then press the desired
DCM SET assign button, located in the center of the EFS panel.
D-9 / Jan 2006