User's Manual

8 Chapter 3: About The XL8 Control Centre

XL8 Control Centre

Quick Reference Guide

The choice of controls provided by each bay type are prioritised by access time

importance. A fast zone area gives instant access to specific functions across the bay.

A channel strip (to the right of the input and mix bays) gives greater control of the

selected fast strip.

Typically, the XL8 fast zone areas contain signal processing and routing levels for input

bays, but only routing level control on the mix and output bay channel panels. GUI

screen navigation tools (keys, glide pad, trackball etc.) are used to manipulate the

signal processing required for these paths. This distances these functions from the

mixing surface, thus allowing the operator to concentrate more on creative mixing. On

analogue systems this is the equivalent of the external processing racks. The exception

to this on the XL8 being the graphic EQ for monitor mixing, where fast access is once

again required; this is provided by the Klark Teknik HELIX RAPIDE DN9331 Graphic

Controller.

GUI

Five screens comprise the graphical user interface (GUI) of the XL8 Control Centre.

Figure 3: GUI screens

Input bay GUI

Input fast zone contains a bank

of eight input channels (left)

and an input channel strip (far

right).

Mix bay GUIs

Option of two displays: (2a)

dashboard screen showing all

meters; (2b) output channel

screen with, in most cases, 16

mix fast strips. Both displays

have an output channel strip on

the far right.

Output bay GUIs

Default display is the effects

screen (3a), but this can be

changed to any of the GUI menu

screens, such as input channels,

groups, automation (3b),

monitors etc.

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