Harman Soundcraft Vi1000 - VCA Group Configuration and Control

Vi1000 USER MANUAL
9.2 9.2: MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
9.2 MUTE & VCA GRPS > VCA GROUPS
VCA Groups conguration is started by pressing the MUTE & VCA GROUPS [SETUP] button. When you press a VCA
Master [SOLO/SEL] button you can assign channels to that VCA group with their individual [SOLO/SEL] buttons, and
also access VCA group options - including labelling - in the Master Bay Vistonics. See below for more information.
You can select EITHER output chanels OR input channels to be part of a normal VCA group.
In order to assign VCAs, the VCA masters [SOLO/SEL] buttons have to be made available by selecting the
appropriate Master Bay Fader Pages layer - [VCA] for VCA masters 1-8, or [E] for VCA masters 9-16.
VCA Master level at setup
To avoid unexpected jumps in signal level, the assignment of VCAs should be done with the channel or group faders
and the VCA master, to which assignment is being made, being at or near a nominal operating level. That is, don’t
assign a VCA master to a channel or group if the VCA master is at -40dB while the channel or group is at 0dB. There
are 0dB buttons for VCA masters avilable in VCA group conguration mode.
VCA Group Operation
VCA and 'E'
Buttons Active
Fader Pages buttons for
mapping VCAs to the
Master Bay faders.
The [VCA] button maps VCA masters 1-8 to the eight
Master Bay faders. The [E] button maps VCA masters
9-16 to the eight Master Bay faders.
VCA Masters 1-16 can be assigned to any Output Fader
page from A to E, along with Bus Output faders or input
faders using the User Dened fader page setup. The
VCA page cannot be remapped and always contains
VCA 1-8.
Select VCA
Range
VCA Masters
[ON] Buttons Inactive Active
Master On/Off button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
If a channel that was previously on is turned off by the
action of a VCA Master [ON]/Off button, the channel’s
[ON] button will illuminate in red to distinguish this condi-
tion from a manually 'off' channel.
The VCA Master On/Off switch itself has only 2 states,
and always illuminates red when off, and green when on.
All VCA
Members
OFF (muted)
All VCA
Members ON
VCA Group
Fader Low Range
An offset dB level for
all channels that are
members of the VCA
Group.
• When a VCA master fader is moved, the contributing
channel fader levels remain unchanged.
• If a channel is assigned to more than one VCA Group,
the resultant offset applied to the channel is calculated
as the arithmetic sum of the dB values of each VCA
Master.
• Any VCA master fader reaching –innity dB (fader at
lowet position) will set all member channels to –innity
dB, regardless of other Master fader settings.
• The maximum gain applied to a member channel as the
result of the channel fader setting plus offsets from VCA
Master faders is limited to +10dB.
-innity
VCA Master
Solo/Sel Inactive Active
A master Solo button for
all of the VCA's member
channels.
Depending on the setting of the AUTO button in the
Monitor Setup page (SOLO section), activating a VCA
Solo will result in PFL (if the group only has one member
channel) or AFL (if the group has more than one member
channel).
Otherwise the VCA solo will follow the setting of the PFL/
AFL switch in the Monitor Setup page.
Normal Soloed