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Chapter 10: Layouts and Snapshots 113
Chapter 10: Layouts and Snapshots
System 5 performs mix-management functions significantly faster than a traditional analog mixing system:
•The PatchNet digital signal patching system can save a complex patch system for each Title.
• Automation supports recording, refining, and replaying virtually all settings with unprecedented precision.
Snapshots and Layouts further extend this flexible model by storing information that describes the console state at a given time:
• Layouts store the channel-to-strip mapping.
For example, channel 8 is mapped to Strip 3 Main level.
• Snapshots store the settings of selected channel functions, even if they are not currently assigned to the console surface.
For example, a Snapshot that contains Channel 3’s EQ and Dynamics will restore the values to both functions, regardless of the
current knobset function.
Snapshots and Layouts complement each other because their information, while related, does not overlap: Layouts map channels
to Strips, and Snapshots determine all, or part of, their channel settings.
Naming, storing, modifying, and recalling functions are accomplished through the Snapshot and Layout Panels, accessed from the
Main Panel.
Layouts
A system with 24 Strips and 96 channels cannot map all channels to the console surface at once. Since each Strip can have two
channels (Main and Swap), two Layouts are required to map all 96 channels:
1 Channels 1–24 to Strips 1–24 Main
Channels 25–48 to Strips 1–24 Swap
2 Channels 49–72 to Strips 1–24 Main
Channels 73–96 to Strips 1–24 Swap
A Layout typically consists of channels sharing a common attribute that are required on the console at the same time (i.e., drums,
vocals, or dialogue).
The Layouts Panel can name, store, modify, and recall up to 48 Layouts.
See Chapter 3, “eMix Application.”
See Chapter 12, “Dynamic Automation (S5P Only).”