D Control Flashcards Arp 1 Final

Front 1

What are the 7 Hardware components of the D-control?

Back 1

Console
CPU
Sync I/O
Midi I/O
Digi PREs
192 I/O
X-MON

Front 2

What does X mon do? 11 things.

Back 2

*Monitor Level Control/Dimming
*Monitor Switching
*Individual Monitor Channel muting/ soloing
*Control Room Talkback
*Cue Level Control 3 mixes
*Cue source selection
*Control Room Headphone level/source selection
*Listen Mic level Control
*SLS level control

Front 3

What channels on a D-control do you find the stereo L&R?

Back 3

CH 1 AND CH 5

Front 4

Fully utilized Xmon requires how many outputs?

Back 4

14 outputs

Front 5

What is the order of operations for the local send assignments?
4 steps.

Back 5

*Press the Sends display button on the track.
*Press Select on the encoder slot you wish to use.
*A menu will take over bucket, choose bus or interface.
*Choose the desired bus, and it will be displayed on the encoder.

Front 6

What is the order of operations for the local insert assignments?
5 steps.

Back 6

*Press the Inserts display button on the track.
*Press Select on the encoder slot you wish to use.
*A menu will take over bucket, choose TDM or RTAS.
*Choose the desired plug in type, ie: Dyn, Reverb, EQ.
*CHoose the desired plugin and it will be displayed on the encoder.

Front 7

What do you do to manipulate a Send or control?

Back 7

Press Select on the encoder

Front 8

How do you get the parameters of the insert to be displayed on the Ch.Strip?

Back 8

Press Select on the encoder.

Front 9

How do you Return an Encoder to the normal view?

Back 9

Press the Sends/Inserts Button in the Ch. Strip Mode Control.

Front 10

How do you Change or remove a Send/Insert?

Back 10

*Press and Hold the Select button on the encoder until the bucket menu returns.
*Use the BMP button to go BACK and navigate to higher levels of the menu as needed.
*At the top level menu select "- -" to remove the send or insert.

Front 11

How do you insert the default processor on an encoder?

Back 11

*While holding the Dyn or EQ buttons, press the desired encoder Select button.
*You can select you default processors in the preferences-mixing menu.

Front 12

How do you Flip? and What does it do?

Back 12

Hitting the flip button "flips" that row of encoders down to the faders.
Hit the flip button in the global strip controls next to the row of encoders you wish to flip.

Front 13

What is Flop? and How do you do it?

Back 13

CTRL+Flip=Flop
Flop takes the desired row of encoders and brings the to the nearest 6th row of encoders.

Front 14

How do you make a Send/Insert/Input/Output inactive/active?

Back 14

Use the Make Inactive buttons in the Global Strip Controls.

Front 15

Where is the only place to change track I/O assignments?

Back 15

The Global Assign Cluster

Front 16

What is in the Global Cluster?

Back 16

Do to selected
Do to All
Set to Default
Suspend Groups

Front 17

What key combination does Do To Selected mimic?

Back 17

Option+Shift+Click

Front 18

What key combination does Do To All mimic?

Back 18

Option+Click

Front 19

What is the easiest way of removing Inserts?

Back 19

Set to Default

Front 20

How do you Ripple Faders across the board?

Back 20

Hold a Nudge Button while scrolling with the jog wheel.

Front 21

How do you return the faders to normal justification?

Back 21

Hit the Home Button.

Front 22

What are the steps in creating a Cue mix?
8 steps

Back 22

*Create a send to output Stereo Cue across all relevant channels by using Do To All/ Do To Selected.
*Make the send Pre-Fader
*Select the Ch.s using the Ch. Select buttons.
*In the Soft Keys under Automation press Action until Copy to Send appears in the display.
*Select Copy to Send and the destination ie: Send A.
*Use the row flip to bring the send levels to the faders across the board.
*Adjust the cue master level so that the amplifiers LEDs are intermittently flickering green.
*Adjust mix with Headphones plugged into the desk.
*Unflip Faders

Front 23

What are the steps in setting up the remote Preamps?
5 steps

Back 23

*Patch Mic Line into Pre Input on the patchbay.
*Check preamps MIDI Channel assignment (1&2).
*Open MIDI Studio/AMS window and ensure the preamps are connected to port 1.
*Open peripherals window and check that the preamps are assigned to their proper channels under the Mic Preamps Tab.
*Open I/O setup and make sure the logic patch for each preamp is in [lace under the mic preamps tab.

Front 24

What are the steps to setting up the inline console mode?
7 steps.

Back 24

*Add an Aux and Audio track
*Set the Aux to fed by the mic input and output to a bus.
*Set the audio track to be fed by the bus and output to the main stereo feed.
*View the mic pre settings on the Aux track and adjust levels, 48V, etc.
*On the audio track press the Input veiw and press the Select button on the bottom encoder labeled "Notrack"
*Rotate the encoder to the aux tack or hit the channel select button on the aux track, the aux track mic pre controls will now be visible on the audio track.
*With the Aux track selected hide this track using the Show/Hide Soft keys.

Front 25

What are the four displays available in Custom Faders?

Back 25

Custom, Groups, Masters, Plug-ins.

Front 26

How many custom fader banks can you have?

Back 26

48

Front 27

What are the steps in setting up a custom fader bank?

Back 27

*Press Custom.
*Then choose a bank in bank select.
*Press edit.
*Press select on tracks to add or remove the from the custom fader bank.
*Press edit twice to name the group.

Front 28

How do you add a single track to multiple custom faders in a single bank?

Back 28

*Press Edit.
*Hold Shift while hitting the Select button on the track you wish to add.

Front 29

What are the three ways to recall Custom Fader Banks?

Back 29

Bank Select.

Bank Select Soft Key.

Press and Hold Custom.

Front 30

What are 3 ways to create a custom fader group above #12?

Back 30

Hold Shift while pressing Bank/Cycle at the bottom of the CF switch cluster.

Cycle through groups with the banks select soft key

Press and Hold the Custom switch in the CF switch cluster The encoder bucket will show all 48 CFG assignments.

Front 31

How can you modify mix edit groups with the custom fader banks?

Back 31

*Engage the groups switch in the CF Cluster.
*Pick mix/edit group in the bank select soft key.
*Engage edit in the bank select and Select tracks to add or remove them.

Front 32

How do you display VCAs on the Custom faders?

Back 32

Bank select in the soft keys then Masters and pick VCA.

Front 33

What do you do to assign a VCA to a group?

Back 33

After creating your Mix/Edit groups, Enter Assign output mode and assign the M/E group as the output on the VCA track.
The members of the group will be displayed on the encoders.

Front 34

What does the VCA control in a group?

Back 34

Mute, Solo, Rec arm, Auto input, and volume.

Front 35

How do you engage Plug In mode so that it's parameters will be displayed in the CF section?

Back 35

*Focus a track into the center section.
*Press Plug-in on the CF Switches.
*Press Bank Cycle to see other processors on that track.

Front 36

How do you Flip Rows of the Plug-in mode display down to the faders?

Back 36

Press the Flip button in the CF switches.

Front 37

How do you MAP plug in parameters to the CFs?

Back 37

*With the plug-in focused press map.
*Then use the Ch Select buttons to identify where you want the parameter mapped to.
*With the Select switch engaged on the Ch touch the encoder that you want mapped to that Fader.

Front 38

How do you map parameters of a Ch. strip to the Custom Faders?

Back 38

*With a custom Fader Group loaded, press and hold map until it blinks.
*Touch any encoder in the column of the custom fader and it will be mapped to the fader.