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Principles of Operation
Switching the CDC five ON
The PWR [25] button
is a “soft” button for starting and powering-down the surface. When the surface is
not operative but connected to power and the rear switch is on, the button illuminates red. A short press
initiates the console boot sequence, the internal computer runs standard BIOS and diagnostics routines
and power is applied to the internal audio DSP section. The PWR button then illuminates green. At the
end of the power-on sequence, a dialogue box appears on the screen as shown below:
22: Power ON Dialogue
Touching YES in answer to the question will reload the snapshot saved during the last power-down and
reinstate the console to the last-known settings. Pressing YES also ignores all SAFES to allow the
console to start in its previous state. Touching CANCEL will result in the console operating in its
‘default’ state, without a scene loaded – i.e. no channel names, routing or processing will be active. If
you press CANCEL and want to recall a CUE without safes, press-and-hold the ISO button [Button 4
shown in Control Surface: Part 1] until the cue has fully recalled to ignore safes
A ‘long’ press on the CUE LIST button at any point after the initial boot-up will re-invoke the power-on
snapshot window: this is useful if the CANCEL button has been pressed inadvertently.
For safety reasons, the CDC five boots up with the MUTE ALL function active: all console outputs from
both the stagebox(es) and the local analogue I/O are ‘hard’-muted. Press the MUTE ALL [24] button to
cancel this mode and activate the outputs.