Operator Manual

Solo hierarchy 105
PRO2 Live Audio System
Owner’s Manual
Solo hierarchy
The solo system add-mode hierarchy works as follows:
• The highest level of solos will be the inputs and returns. When active, these will
override and inhibit the remaining solo sources, namely auxes, matrices and
masters.
• Within the constraints of the two-level solo hierarchy, only one source can be active
on any channel at any instant:
• Input channels: Input channel <--> Aux AFL <--> Direct out <--> Side chain
listen
• Return channels: Return channel <--> Direct in
• Aux buses: Aux bus <--> Direct in <--> Side chain listen
• Matrix outputs: Matrix bus <--> Direct in <--> Side chain listen
• Master outputs: Master bus <--> Direct in <--> Side chain listen
An additional constraint is placed on the side chain listen. This is due to the nature
of the DSP, where only one side chain listen can be active on the console at any
time, regardless of whatever else is active in the same solo hierarchy level.
• If an input channel solo is active via a VCA master solo, soloing the input temporarily
overrides the VCA master solo.
Solo in place (SIP)
Operating a solo button cuts all channels from the main mix except soloed ones; this is
called “solo in place” or “SIP”. SIP allows you to check the contribution from soloed
channels at the actual levels they occur in the mix, that is, taking into account the main
fader setting. If solo buttons cut the main output (main mix) they must only be used in
rehearsals.
>> To activate SIP
1 Press the solo in place switch. A window will open containing the message
“Activate SIP ?”.
2 Click OK.
Solo modes
There two available solo modes (see “Solo system” on page 112) as follows:
• Normal Solo A and B are treated as a single 4-channel solo bus, with the ADD,
CLEAR and PFL controls in the monitor section linked together.
• Broadcast Switches all of the channels to solo B, selects the stereo masters for the
solo A output and unlinks the ADD, CLEAR and PFL controls in the monitor section.
This allows the main program material to be monitored at the same time as
something soloed on the solo B bus.