Let's finish up this TOD by examining the Monitoring functions of MTRX from the Soft Keys on the S6 Automation Module.
We begin by discussing the two different ways to display Monitoring controls on the Soft Keys:
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1) Use the QuickJump
Shift +
. key on the numeric section. Hold any
Shift switch on a Fader Module while pressing the
period switch on the numeric section of the Automation Module.
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2) From the default Soft Keys, access the
Extras page on the right quadrant of the Automation Module and press the Soft Key for
Control Room.
The Control Room
Sources are populated in the left quadrant of the Automation Module, with 10 on the first page and 6 on the second. Simply press one or multiple source switches to enable them while in
Sum mode. The bottom left Soft Key allows you to toggle between
Sum and
Intercancel / Switching mode. While in Sum mode, press
All On to enable all source inputs.
The right quadrant of the Monitoring Soft Keys includes speaker selections, cut, dim, fold-downs, TB and monitoring preferences. If we jump to
Speakers we can see all of the individual speaker channels for our 2nd set (
Alt1) which is a 7.1.2 group. While in
Sum mode, press individual speaker switches to mute individual speakers. To Solo individual speakers, switch from
Sum mode into
Intercancel / Switching. Press the center
Control switch to return back to the primary Control Room functions. We can easily toggle between our
Main,
Alt1 and
Alt2 speaker sets from the primary page.
Main in this case is a 2.1 path, as we discussed previously.
Alt1 is 7.1.2 and
Alt2 is a 5.1 path.
For the third set (
Alt2), which is our 5.1 speaker group, we have access to the first two fold-downs applied to the outputs in the monitor profile. We have
5.1>St and
5.1>LCRS in our profile. To access additional fold-downs, we can press the
Folds Soft Key below. On the
FoldDowns page you can see we have additional fold-downs beyond the first 2 mirrored from the main Control Room section including an upmatch from
LCRS>5.1.
Next, let's access each of the
Monitor A-
D controls on the right quadrant of the Automation Module Soft Keys. First,
Monitor A which gives us 10 sources (either in Sum or Switching mode), but by holding down
Shift on any Fader Module we can access an additional 6 source inputs for this monitor. We also have
Dim and
Cut switches accessible next to the Monitor sources. We can jump to any of the other Monitors
B,
C or
D in the same manner. With Monitors (unlike the Control Room) the Sum vs Switching setting needs to be tweaked directly from the DADman application currently. Monitor A and B are currently set to Sum while C and D are set to Switching (Intercancel).
Back on the right quadrant Soft Keys, we have access to the main
Cut,
Dim, first 2 Fold-downs, and
Talkback for the Control Room. Listenback is currently only available on XMON,
TB can be triggered, and
Auto-Talkback can be engaged. Additional Monitoring settings can be tweaked by pressing the
Monitor Prefs switch where you can toggle preferences including
Talkback Latching,
Speaker Label Editing (which we looked at in the last post),
GPI TB Latch, and more.
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