User manual SOUNDCRAFT 800

[. . . ] Here is a summary of the new features, and what you can do with them: Feature User-Defined Fader pages can now be created for both Input and Output faders Benefits Arrange channels in any order on the surface. Assign VCA master faders along-side channel faders. Assign an important channel to the same fader on all 3 User Pages, so that it never disappears from the surface. Assign only one half of a paired channel to User pages, saving faders. [. . . ] What you will see when you open the pairing page from an Input channel is the same screen as you would see if you opened the pairing page of that channel from within a fixed Fader page ­ ie the pairing choices you will be offered by the page will be the channels that are adjacent on the fixed fader pages to the one you have selected. So let's say you have Fader Page USER 1 active, and on this User page you have channel 37, with channel 1 on its left and channel 64 on its right. If you open the pairing page for Ch37, you will see the screen below, which is the same screen you would see if you opened the pairing page for Ch37 from a fixed fader page ­ ie: it has Ch36 on the left and Ch38 on the right. Be aware therefore that you will see channels laid out as they are in the fixed fader pages, if you open the pairing page from a User-defined fader page. Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 10 Stereo Input Channels in User-defined Input Fader Pages Stereo paired channels are treated as if the two halves were separate mono channels, as far as assigning the channels to Userdefined Fader pages goes. In other words it is not necessary to assign both sides of a stereo pair to a User page, if you want to maximize the use of faders. On Fixed Fader pages, two types of indicators are used at the bottom of the touch screen to show that channels are paired, and how they are paired: Vertical Horizontal When you assign only one side of a Stereo pair of channels to a fader in a User-defined Fader page, you will see a slightly different indication, as seen in the channel strip on the right. The two `gear wheels' without any white line in the blue strip below the Pan display indicates that this is one half of a paired channel (note the difference with the vertical and horizontal indicators shown above). The other half of the pair may be adjacent to this channel on the User page, or it may not be assigned at all on this User page. It is important to remember however that not all parameters are linked when you create paired channels ­ most of the input stage such as gain, trim, phase etc, plus the pan controls are not linked, and so it will only be possible to adjust one side of these from the User Fader page, if only one fader from the pair is assigned. However, remember that all channels including any `dropped' halves of stereo pairs are always available in their original locations via the Fixed pages A/B/C or via the temporary right hand bay activated from the Input Meter screen. Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 11 User Defined Output Fader Pages With previous software versions on the Vi consoles, the Output Faders in the centre section of the console have only been accessible via 4 `fixed' fader pages A, B, C, &D, with two fixed VCA fader pages under `VCA' and `E'. Version 4. 0 software unlocks the page buttons A ­ E and allows flexible configurations of Output busses and VCA Masters on any of the pages. (The `VCA' page remains fixed and is dedicated to VCAs 1-8). · · EQ and Hi/lo cut frequencies All Lexicon FX parameters All switched parameters, plus the exceptions listed above will have their values changed at one of three points in the Crossfade: at the start, in the middle, or at the end. This is set globally for all the parameters via the `Switches' control. To set the Crossfade time for a specific Cue, press the Setup button in the Snapshot Control area of the control surface to open the Cue List page, then select the required Cue using the scroll bars or up/dwn arrow keys, and touch the name area of the currently selected Cue in the centre of the Cue List (the area becomes highlighted white, as shown in the picture below): The time selected on the XFADE control below the Cue List will be the time taken for the desk to change from its current state, to the state of the snapshot in the selected Cue. In other words, the XFADE time can be thought of as an `In' time for the Cue. Each Cue can have its own `In' time set using the XFADE control. The Crossfade time can be disabled without affecting the time by using the On/Off switch. An icon is shown in the Cue List next to the desk snapshot icon if a Crossfade time has been enabled for that Cue. Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 17 Using Crossfade and Cue Chaining to create `pseudo-dynamic Cues' Using the Cue Chain facility that was part of the Version 3. 0 software, in conjunction with the Crossfade function allows an approximation to `dynamic' cue fader automation to be achieved. Using the Snapshot Scope facility to control what is recalled on each Cue can also be used to achieve different Crossfade times on different channels, if that is required. To do this, try to break up the overall fader move required into several sections, and make Cues corresponding to the start and end points each section. Then chain the Cues together using the `Go To Cue' parameter in the Cue List. (To find these parameters, open the Cue List page and touch the left-hand side of the currently selected Cue bar in the list): Old Show files and Crossfade parameters When loading an old pre-V4. 0 Show file, be aware that these do not contain any Crossfade information in their Cue List, and so whatever Crossfade settings that might be present on the desk, for example from the previously loaded Show, will remain on the desk and appear to get copied into the Cue list of your old show. [. . . ] This function has been available for Input Channels since the start, but is also implemented for Output Busses on V4. 0 or later software. The main point of this feature is that it gives a faster alternative to using the ALL BUSSES fader page, which switches ALL the Input Faders to Buss master mode. To use this feature, touch the meter overview screen in the block of meters corresponding to the Output busses that you want to access. The relevant section of the ALL BUSSES Fader page will then appear on the far right-hand bay on the surface. The left-hand side of the console will remain in Input control mode. [. . . ]