Manual

109 PRO X User Manual
VCA fast strips
The VCA groups section contains 10 VCA fast strips. Each strip contains an LCD select button, a solo routing section and a fader. The solo routing section activates solo
routing and selects which monitor section (A or B) the signals are routed to. The GUI has additional controls.
VCA fast strips on the control surface and GUI
Item Control Function
1 LCD select button Selects the VCA group and is also used for group membership management. For more information, see
“Navigating the input channels” in chapter 7.
2 mute safe LED Illuminates to show that mute safe is on.
3 fader safe LED Illuminates to show that the VCA control group fader has been removed from scene recall.
4 vca control group fader Adds its level control on top of the local channel fader controls of the group members.
5 SOLO button Activates signal routing from all assigned channels to the monitor A section of the control centre. It is
used to monitor the VCA master faders by creating a mix on the solo buses, which consists of all input
channels and audio mix groups that are assigned to control from corresponding VCA masters.
6 MUTE switch This is, technically, not a mute but a fader minus innity (-∞) switch that overrides the VCA group
master (without moving its physical position). The VCA group mutes can be stored and recalled as
part of the scene automation. When on, it mutes all post-fader signals from channels that have been
assigned to the VCA group master (regardless of local press, scene mute and SIP mute, which aect
only the mute status indicator while channel is muted by VCA). However, it does not update the mute
status indicator on the channel (only channel outputs). On removal of the VCA mute, the channel
outputs are updated to the current state of the channel mute status indicator.
The VCA control group mute has been removed from scene recall and auto-mute action. When
mute safe is active, all channel mute activation methods, other than by local press, are ignored.
De-activating the mute safe condition re-evaluates and applies the current status of auto-mute and
SIP mute.
7 Area B button (GUI only) Changes input channel selection from default (area A) to those input channels set to area B mode —
in the input bays.
8 unfold button (GUI only) Assigns the VCA group to the control surface, unfolding the group members to the input bays.
9 VCA/POP group ID Fixed and user-congured name of group.
10 User (GUI only) User mode can be used to reorder channels in a VCA/POP group. They appear from left to right.
The full function is described on the next page.
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