User manual HYFAX EXPERT DIGITAL SOUND CONTROL CONSOLE

[. . . ] 23 Introduction The HYFAX "EXPERT" Digital Sound Control Console is a new generation of a fully digital mixing system that can be used and operated in a very similar way like a traditional analog console. The EXPERT system reflects the long experience and know-how of the HYFAX engineers, achieved in designing audio equipment for dedicated use in halls and theatres and their deep understanding of hall acoustics. It also contains the feedback from our customers and many SR professionals. The EXPERT system has eliminated complicated operations often found with other recently developed digital console designs, and enables it's user for a real-time, on-the-fly adjustment through an intuitive operation -essential for SR use. [. . . ] See also "Isolated Copy and Paste" (page 26) on how to use the ISO switches. You can also use the ISO switch in the channel fader block as a temporary ISO master. If you press and hold it for more than one second, you can turn on or off all other ISO switches in the same channel strip. You cannot turn off an ISO switch controlled from a "real" Isolate Master (ISOLATE MAS) switch. 94 You can use the CPY, MEM and ISO switches when copying the current settings of an input channel to one or more channels at a time. Here are two examples on how to use these switches. Copying Ch. 1 settings to Ch. 2 to 5: Ch. 2 to 3 will receive all settings from Ch. 1, Ch. 4 receives all settings except for EQ, and Ch. 5 receives all settings except for dynamics (NOISE GATE and COMP/LIM). In this case, Ch. 4 EQ and Ch. 5 dynamics will keep their local settings. Copying Ch. 1 settings excluding EQ to Ch. 2 to 5: Ch. 2 to 4 will receive partial Ch. 1 settings keeping their local EQ settings. Ch. 5 receives partial Ch. 1 settings keeping the local EQ and dynamics settings. 95 You can use an Isolate Master switch to master select or deselect a specific ISO switch in all channel strips. 96 Moving Channels Left or Right While setting multiple input channels, you would arrange or swap them repeatedly, set several channels to stereo mode and finally, you may find several channel strips empty here and there. In such cases, you can conveniently use a function called Directional Move. If you have a channel strip layout as illustrated above, maybe you think it's more convenient if you "push" Ch. 4 to 7 to the right and make two empty strips in front of you, to reassign two more (or stereo paired) input channels. Or, you may want to fill the empty strip between Ch. 9 and 4 by moving Ch. 4 to 7 to the left. Directional Move function lets you do it very easily. 1) Determine which input channel should be the "start point" for the move. Here we select Ch. 4 - the channel strip assigned to Ch. 4 in the "initial layout" above. In the following steps, we specify "how many channels including Ch. 4 should be moved in which direction" and actually move them to obtain the "changed layout" above. 97 2) Locate the L/R Shift switches in the CH INS block of the "start point" strip. 3) Press the L Shift switch ( ). If you want to move the "start point" channel to the right, press the R Shift switch ( ). In either case, the shift switch you pressed starts blinking in green, while the same shift switches in other channel strips start blinking in red. 4) Determine the "end point" channel for the move. While shift switches gorgeously blinking on the panel, press the blinking shift switch in the "end point" strip. The moment you press it, all input channels between the start and end points will be moved by one strip in the direction specified in step 3 (start and end points and in-between empty places are all included in the move). If you cancel the directional move, press the "no blinking" shift switch in the "start point" channel strip. 98 Moved successfully?Reassignment of input channels by the directional move will be done as it turns either clockwise or counterclockwise in 24 channel strips on the panel. Depending on how many channels are moved at a time, you may have new empty strips or find some input channels recalled in unexpected strips. With any result, current input channel settings will never be lost or overwritten. So, repeat this function until you are familiar with it. If you create a convenient layout, it's recommended to store it using Panel Memo or Scene Memory. 99 Other Input Modules In addition to the HA preamp modules, you have other input modules that deliver audio sources, such as ANN for the announcer's microphone, STAFF for the staff microphone used by stage directors during rehearsal, AIR for stereo air microphones placed over audience seats (often used as program source for listening to the scene in foyers, wardrobes, restrooms etc. ), and TALKBACK for the talkback microphone for you, the SR operator. Plus the OSCILLATOR, the pink noise generator used to check SR speakers. As an SR operator, you are familiar with the functions of these modules, as they can often be found on a traditional SR console. So in this section, we mainly explain how to operate them. In the layout shown, these modules are placed right under the Matrix output section, but as it is a modular system, you are free to place these modules anywhere you like on the control surface in the master section. Each module has been designed for ease of operation and maximum performance, and will offer you a perfect signal routing, as you are used from your analog console. 100 101 ANN, STAFF and AIR Modules These three input modules are o similar design like the preamps of the HA modules. The big difference from the HA module is the limited signal routing; HA signals are first sent to AUX or PGM buses, and then routed to the Matrix section, while input signals from ANN, STAFF and AIR modules are sent to their dedicated buses, and then directly routed to the Matrix section. [. . . ] In addition, you can also manually generate an output signal for other RL signals, using the EXT CONTROL-RL switches. Press the RL key, and the following dialog box will appear in the center screen, where you now can specify a relay output port (terminal) that outputs a pulse signal when this scene is cued as the current scene. Select a desired relay output port (1 to 8) using the corresponding numeric key, and change the "-" mark to one of RL terminals (A to H) on the external I/O option. This specifies which device is controlled from this scene. For devices you want to control using the EXT CONTROL-RL switches, leave the "-" mark as it is. 169 TITLE= Scene 1 A= 1-1 N= 2 2-1 Comment Wait Time Relay Out 0:00:00:0 0:00:00:0 0:00:00:0 0:00:00:0 12345678 Data= - - - - - - - [ENT] [ESC] Press the RL key again while the dialog box is open to display the second page, where you can globally specify which relay output port handles what kind of RL signals. These settings are shared with the EXT CONTROL-RL switches. TITLE= Scene 1 A= 1-1 N= 2 2-1 Comment Wait Time Relay Out No. [. . . ]