User manual SOUNDCRAFT VI4 V4.0 QUICKSTART GUIDE

[. . . ] V4. 0 Software Quick Start Guide to the New Features Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 1 INTRODUCTION TO V4. 0 The V4. 0 software for the Vi4 and 6 consoles contains some major new functionality. This guide lists the new functionality and then gives a fast-track guide to using the new features. The V4. 0 software is also pre-loaded on the new Vi2 Control Surface which starts shipping in November (see the separate guide Introduction to the Vi2). For full information there is a User Guide appendix available for download via the soundcraft. com website. [. . . ] This screen shows a group of all the available busses and VCA Masters on the console, with the currently assigned one highlighted in white. The Output fader strip that you are changing is indicated by the white highlight on the long name display at the bottom edge of the Vistonics screen. In this example we are changing the assignment of Strip 4 (`ACOUSTICS'), on Output Fader Page C: Output Fader Page C, Strip 4 The tabs on the top right of the screen allow you to choose either the 32 Output bus masters or the 16 VCA Masters for your selection. You can also choose to have no assignment on a particular fader strip, by touching the `NONE' button. Output Fader Page C, Strip 4 Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 14 Combining Stereo Bus Masters onto a single Master Fader Prior to V4. 0 software, the eight centre-section bus master faders could only control a maximum of 4 stereo busses on one fader page, because the stereo bus masters always used two faders each. The Vi surface however was designed to allow stereo busses to be controlled by single faders, which is why there is a stereo meter above each bus master fader, and Version 4. 0 software now allows this mode of operation. In order to assign a stereo bus master to one fader, it is simply necessary to remove the other fader in the pair from the output fader page, and assign something else to the adjacent fader (eg one fader from another stereo bus). To do this, first set up the bus structure that you require ­ eg busses 1-16 set up as 8 stereo Aux busses ­ then use the Output Fader Page Setup as described in the previous pages, to assign only the odd numbered bus masters to the fader page you require. The screenshot below shows how the assignment would look for Output Fader Page A: Setting up Output Fader Page A like this will give eight stereo Aux masters controlled by single faders. Fader Page B has been assigned as `empty' in this example, but you could assign other things here. Since all of the audio parameters of stereo bus masters are stereo linked, it is not a problem to `drop' the even numbered faders like this. Once you have programmed User-defined Output fader pages in this way, you can still if necessary view the busses in the way they were originally displayed ­ in sequential order ­ by one of the following methods: · Switch to the ALL BUSSES page. The ALL BUSSES page always shows all 32 output busses, regardless of any User-defined setups you have made on the centre-section. Use the new Temporary Output Meter Activation feature to assign sections of the ALL BUSSES page to the right-hand input bay, whilst still keeping input faders on the left of the centre-section. · Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 15 Show file Compatibility with Version 4. 0 software As with Version 3. 0, both forward and backward compatibility with older show files is retained with V4. 0. This means that not only can older shows be loaded onto a desk running V4. 0, but also version 4. 0 shows can be loaded onto a desk that is still running older software. Obviously if you load a V4. 0 Show onto a desk running older software, there will be no User-defined fader pages, and no Crossfade between snapshots, because these features did not exist in the earlier software. The only issue to be aware of is when loading old shows that were saved on preV4. 0 consoles onto a console running V4. 0, when there are User-defined Fader Pages or Crossfade times already set up on the desk. What will happen in this case, since there is no information stored in the old pre-V4. 0 Shows about the Fader Page setup or Crossfade values, is that those values will remain on the console after you have loaded the old Show. You could manually reset these to what you want and then save the old Show to bring it up to `V4. 0 level', but a better way is to load one of the Default shows first, and then load your old Show. Loading the Default show first will clear out the Fader Page setup and any Crossfade values, so that these will not get copied across to your old Show. Show file Size There is no change to the show file size when moving from V3. 0 to V4. 0 software. A basic Show is still approximately 3MB in size with no snapshots stored, and each snapshot will add approx 1. 2MB to the size. Hint: When emailing Shows, always use a zip program to compress the Show folder, which not only reduces its size but also retains the internal folder structure and allows just one file to be emailed. Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 16 Snapshot Crossfade Snapshot Crossfade allows the recall of a desk snapshot to happen over a predefined time interval, rather than immediately. The interval can be set anywhere from 0. 1 to 30 seconds, in 0. 1s increments, using the Crossfade time control. [. . . ] Two adjacent page buttons illuminate when the displayed frequency page is `half way between' two of the fixed pages. Vi V4. 0 Quickstart Guide. doc Page 21 Output Buss Temporary Activation Temporary Activation means temporarily assigning a group of Channels or Bus Masters to the far right-hand fader bay of a Vi2, 4, or 6 console. This function has been available for Input Channels since the start, but is also implemented for Output Busses on V4. 0 or later software. The main point of this feature is that it gives a faster alternative to using the ALL BUSSES fader page, which switches ALL the Input Faders to Buss master mode. To use this feature, touch the meter overview screen in the block of meters corresponding to the Output busses that you want to access. The relevant section of the ALL BUSSES Fader page will then appear on the far right-hand bay on the surface. [. . . ]