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54 PRO X User Manual
Common device elements
The device images have certain common elements in their layout,
as shown below.
A typical device
Item Description
1 Unit type.
2 Unit ID number.
3
Unit name and PRO Series Live Audio System-assigned
unit number.
4
‘Spanner’ button, opens the device conguration window (see
“Conguring the devices” in chapter 9).
5 Patch connector.
6
Patch connector area. (The line I/O device shows the three
module card slots, A, B and C.)
7 Module slot reference.
Patching tooltips
Patching uses two types of tooltip — standard and list — to convey useful
patching information about the patch connectors. A tooltip is a transitory object,
in the form of a text box, that only appears while the GUI’s pointer is in the
proximity of a patch connector.
Standard tooltip
The standard tooltip is the default type that appears during all patching
operations (unless the list tooltip is selected). The following diagram shows,
typically, the type of information provided by a standard tooltip.
Typical standard tooltip
Item Description
1
Patch connector information panel, contains information on
the selected patch connector, such as, name, ID, device name,
device ID etc. Depending on the device type, a signal level
meter appears if the channel is passing audio.
2
Routing information panel, contains patching information on
the selected patch connector. (If this panel is blank, the patch
connector is not patched.)
3 The patch connector that the tooltip belongs to.
List tooltip
If you are carrying out a sequence operation, you can use the list tooltip to help in
selecting the destinations in the To section. This tooltip, which has a distinctive
translucent orange background, displays a list of the sources still to be patched.
The list is in order of selection, with the rst in the queue being at the bottom.
You can only use the list tooltip for sequence operations.
Typical list tooltip
Item Description
1
ID of the patch connector belonging to the tooltip. If selected,
this patch connector will be patched to the source patch
connector at the bottom of the list.
2
List of selected sources still to be patched. Contains channel
and device ID information.
3
This source patch connector is the one waiting to be patched.
Once patched, this will disappear from the list and the one
immediately above will take its place.
>> To select the list tooltip
Press LIST. (Pressing LIST again will change the tooltip back to the standard type.)
About the patching procedure
Although patching can be thought of as routing/rerouting the control centre’s
incoming, internal and outgoing signals, in the context of the Patching screen,
patching also encompasses the setting up and conguration of the stage and
FOH rack I/O devices. The patching procedure is initially carried out after system
installation and comprises:
• Device conguration Congure the devices by adjusting their parameters
(see below).
• Snake selection Congure the control centre according to the type
of ‘snake’ you are using for the X and Y networks (see “Conguring the
snake type”). This is important, as the control centre will not work
unless the snake type is correctly congured.
• Setting up the I/O rack devices Set up the system devices, such as line
I/O, DN9696 and generic AES50, in the I/O tabs in the From and To sections
of the Patching screen (see “Setting up the I/O rack devices”).
• Patching Carry out all of the required routing, for example, mics to input
channels (see “How to patch”).
Conguring the devices
You have the option to congure the devices from the Patching screen.
Parameters, such as gain and +48V phantom voltage, can be adjusted or
switched on/o, respectively, via a device-specic conguration window.
These conguration settings can be independent of channel data, as (until
patched) they only control the physical unit. If a device is subsequently patched
to one or more channels, the channel(s) control the device, and vice-versa.
The device conguration area also allows control of audio parameters when the
device is used as a direct connection to another device. For example, FOH to stage
via a digital snake, instead of through the DSP. In this case the settings are also
saved in the show le and can be automated, even though the signals are not
routed through the control centre DSP.