Specifications

S3L System Guide168
Identifying Rack Slots
The racks indicate which plug-in is currently targeted by high-
lighting its rack slot controls in blue.
Within each rack slot, color outlines appear around each plug-in
to indicate the type of plug-in currently targeted on the control
surface. The following colors are used:
Display of Unavailable or Inactive
Plug-Ins
It is possible for a plug-in to be displayed in a rack slot but be un-
available for channel and bus processing. This can occur in any of
the following circumstances:
• There are not enough DSP resources available for the
plug-in.
• The assigned plug-in is part of the show file but is not in-
stalled on the current system.
• The plug-in has been disabled manually.
Unavailable Plug-Ins
When a plug-in cannot be used because of insufficient DSP re-
sources, because it is disabled, or because it is not installed on the
system, a warning icon is shown in front of the affected plug-in.
The plug-in icon is grayed out, and the rack slot Power switch dis-
plays a yellow switch LED.
For more information, see “Installing and Authorizing Plug-Ins”
on page 161.
Inactive Plug-Ins
When a plug-in has been manually made inactive, the plug-in
icon is grayed out. Plug-Ins can be made inactive manually, let-
ting you retain their assignment and settings in the rack while
freeing up their DSP resources for other tasks.
For more information, see “Activating and Deactiving Plug-Ins”
on page 170.
Scope Indication in the Plug-Ins Page
The Plug-In Rack provides visual indication whenever a plug-in
is scoped in the currently targeted snapshot. The Snapshot pop-up
menu turns red whenever that plug-in is scoped by the currently
targeted snapshot.
For more information, see “Plug-In Presets and Snapshots” on
page 175.
Highlighted rack slot indicating targeted plug-in
Color
Outline
Indication
Green
An EQ plug-in is mapped to S3 control surface con-
trols
Blue
A Comp/Lim plug-in is mapped to S3 control surface
controls
Yellow
An Exp/Gate plug-in is mapped to S3 control sur-
face controls
Red
A plug-in is mapped to the Global Control encoders
(Insert mode)
Place the cursor over the Tool Tips icon to see an explana-
tion of why the plug-in is not available. To view DSP re-
source allocation, see “DSPs Available for Plug-Ins” on
page 58.
Indication of an unavailable plug-in
Indication of an inactive plug-in
Indication of a scoped plug-in