178 Chapter 17: Control Groups
PRO Series Live Audio Systems
Owner’s Manual
There are 10 VCA groups. Their controls, such as fader, LCD select button etc., are
housed in fast strips at the bottom of the mix bay. POP groups, however, are fewer in
number (six-off). These only have an LCD each, and are housed in a population
groups section just above the VCAs.
The GUI provides full support for the hardware controls. This is in the VCA Groups
screen of the GUI menu, which also includes an unfold button and a solo area B button
for each group. This screen also provides VCA/POP group configuration and
management functions.
Each VCA/POP group can have a combination of channel types as members, although it
is usual to have only either inputs or outputs. Only the input channels are unfolded to
the control surface (in the input bays).
>> To open the VCA Groups screen
At the GUI, choose home
Control GroupsVCA Groups.
VCA fast strips
The VCA groups section contains 10 VCA fast strips. Each strip contains an LCD select
button, a solo routing section and a fader. The solo routing section activates solo
routing and selects which monitor section (A or B) the signals are routed to. The GUI
has additional controls.
VCA fast strips on the control surface and GUI
Item Control Function
1 LCD select button Selects the VCA group and is also used for group
membership management. For more information,
see “Navigating the input channels” on page 59.
2 mute safe LED Illuminates to show that mute safe is on.
3 fader safe LED Illuminates to show that the VCA control group fader
has been removed from scene recall.
4 vca control group
fader
Adds its level control on top of the local channel fader
controls of the group members.