Manual

34 PRO X User Manual
Saving your work
We recommend that you save your work regularly while carrying out the
procedures included in this chapter. Not only is this good practice during
normal operation, but in this instance it may save you from losing some
set-ups that could prove useful later on. To do this, create a new show,
and then continue reading through the remainder of this section, following the
instructions carefully. Save your work at convenient points.
Saving a show versus storing a scene
It is important to understand the dierences between saving a show and storing
a scene.
• Storing a scene saves the current settings of the system to the show le.
Scene data is never updated unless you manually store a scene. The show le
remains unsaved in RAM.
Although the state of the control centre is copied every ve seconds, it is
not stored in a scene. Instead, it is placed in the NVRAM (non-volatile
random access memory) of the control centre’s memory, which is a type
of RAM that doesn't lose its data when the power goes o. If the control
centre loses power accidentally, these settings are loaded so that audio
parameters are identical, thus avoiding audio level jumps. When power is
lost, the showle loaded (if any) will not subsequently be restored,
and any unsaved changes to it will be lost.
• Saving a show copies the show le onto the internal solid-state disk of the
control centre. This provides you with a ‘permanent’ copy, provided you shut
down the system properly as detailed in the following section.
Shutting down the control centre properly
When switching o the control centre, we recommend that you use the
shutdown option of the GUI menu.
By using shutdown, the cached copy of the show data, which is maintained by
the system, is automatically stored. Shutdown then uses the current showle,
NVRAM data and cache les to restore the control centre to exactly the same state
as at power down; even to the point of loading the unsaved show and placing you
at the correct scene, with non-stored scene data at the control surface.
If you don’t use the Shutdown option the audio parameters are still restored,
but the show and show status (saved/unsaved) cannot be restored automatically.
You must manually reload the show, and any unsaved changes will be lost.