User guide

Chapter 2: Quickstart to Common Tasks 7
Chapter 2: Quickstart to Common Tasks
In this chapter, you will learn how to route and patch devices using two simple examples:
• Connect and play a CD
• Connect and monitor a microphone
Connect and Play a CD
Connecting and playing a CD illustrates System 5’s basic configuration, routing, and monitoring principles:
• Set up eMix
• Assign the CD channels to the console
• Patch the CD player
• Route the CD channels to the mix bus
To set up eMix:
1 Select Drives at the bottom of the eMix screen and choose a drive.
2 Click Projects > New, and name the new Project.
3 Click Titles > New, and name the new Title.
4 Click Save the current title and mix data into the new title to use the current Title’s settings for the new Title (like Save As); click
Reset Console with Default Title settings to use default Title settings.
To assign channels to console:
1 Select Channels from the main panel viewer in the console master section.
2 Select Auto then Channel 1.
3 Press Chan Sel keys for two neighboring console Strips (n and n+1).
Channels 1 and 2 are now assigned to Strips n and n+1, respectively.
New Title dialog