V6 User Manual 1.00.book - Studio General

Monitor ! WindowScopePyramix has a dedicated Monitor section. This extremely powerful tool offers comprehensive monitoring facilitiesincluding summing and downmixing for all supported formats. External Machine Inputs, comprehesive Talkback,Foldback and External Metering are also supported depending on your system specification.The Monitor presents monitor outputs of all buses present in the current Mixer as sources. It is also possible toconfigure external sources both for recorder returns and for talkback. Sources can be summed for monitoringwithout affecting the Mixer bus outputs. This is useful, for example, when you need to listen to a guide track whilerecording.You do not have to use the Monitor and disabling it will save DSP power but, with complex Mixers and routing,the Monitor helps to keep things logical.The monitor is also used to output the audio signal from the audition function of the Media Manager and Librariesas an unformatted input. (I.e. Routed to LRC in a Surround 5.1 Speaker Set and to LR in a Stereo one)By default the Monitor window is hidden. It can be opened with View > Monitor or theView Toolbar.icon in theMonitor Main Monitor ! WindowThe Monitor has four pages: a Main Monitor ! page in normal operation, a Configure page for setting up and twofurther pages for configuring Externals (machines) and Talkback.Monitor ! pageThe Monitor ! window is divided vertically into three sections.Sources, left-hand section:The button top-left of the title bar enables/disables the Monitor and lights yellow when enabled. This allows DSPpower to be saved when comprehensive monitoring control is not required. Below the Enable Monitoring buttonis a tree view of all buses used in the mixer. Clicking on the + and - boxes shows and hides branches in theusual way. Click on any complete bus or any available stem or any bus/stem channel to select it for monitoring.Selection is exclusive unless the Ctrl key held is down. Then selection is cumulative and clicking adds or subtractsSources according to their current state.Buses / Externals buttonMonitor : Monitor ! Window 11 - 197