On-Screen Submasters

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The on-screen submasters can be viewed as either slider controls or a grid similar to the channel display. The fader view will provide access to up to 30 submasters per page. Each submaster is represented by a single slide control, a spin edit box and a flash button. The grid view will display the total number of submasters as set in the system properties (number of submaster pages X submasters per page). Each submaster is represented as a square in the grid that can be selected and modified using the scroll wheel on your mouse.

 

NEO Notes & Tips: Not all submasters can be viewed on screen when in slider mode. If you configure more than 30 submasters per page, then only the first 30 will be visible in this mode.

To switch between the fader view and the grid view click on the button to the top right of this window. Clicking on this will toggle between each of the views.

 

At the top of this window is a series of buttons to change the submaster page. Changing the page in this window will not change the page number on the main window as it is possible to have the on-screen submasters set to a different page than any external hardware you might be using. The page buttons can be modified with a description and test/background colors by right-clicking on the desired button.

 

Fader Mode

Setting a submaster can be done by using your mouse to click-and-drag the slide control, or by typing a value in the edit box below the slider. If you move the slide control, the value in the edit box will change to reflect the new position and changes to the edit box will be reflected in the slide position.

 

The “Flash” button at the bottom of each slider has two modes depending on the setting of the switch in the top right corner of the window. If set to “Momentary”, the submaster will go to 100% as long as the left mouse button is down and will return to its previous level when released. If set to “Latch”, the flash button becomes a toggle alternating the submaster between 100% and its previous level for each click.

 

NEO Notes & Tips: If hardware submasters are being used, you will also see the slide position and edit box value change to reflect the hardware.

Right clicking on a submaster will bring up additional options to help identity each fader.

 

Change Description – Use this option to label the submaster. The label will appear vertically to the left of the slider.

 

Set Description Color – The color of the description can be changed by selecting it from this option.

 

Reset Description Color – Select this option to return the color of the description back to its original color.

 

Lock/Unlock Submaster to all pages - A locked submaster will remain on screen regardless of the page change. This is useful for keeping some operations on screen all the time.

 

When a submaster is locked to all pages, a small yellow padlock will appear in the top right corner of the slider control.

 

Uncheck All – Release all submasters from spin wheel control. See below for details.

 

Spin Wheel - On the right-hand side of this window is a large wheel that can be used to move all or a subset of the submasters on this page at once. You can select what submasters the wheel will operate on by setting or clearing the check marks at the top left of each slider. Click on the wheel and while holding the mouse button down move the mouse up or down to raise or lower the levels. You will see the submasters on that page raise and lower with your mouse movements.

 

 

Grid mode

Setting submasters in the grid mode is similar to setting channels in the channel display. Each submaster is represented by a cell in a two-dimensional grid.

Submasters can be selected or deselected by simply clicking on the desired grid cell. By holding the left mouse button down, you can drag an area of the grid to select multiple submasters. Once selected use the mouse wheel or the spin wheel on the right to change the value.

 

Right click on any of the cells in the grid for additional options.

 

Clear selection – Select this option to unselect all submasters.

 

Select active submasters (all pages) – All of the submasters currently above zero will be selected.

 

Clear selection when changing pages – Check this menu item so that all of the submasters are automatically unselected when the page is changed.

 

Inclusive selection mode - This is a toggle option that will have a small check mark next to it when turned on. If the “inclusive selection” option is active then each selection made will be added to the previous selection. All submasters currently selected will remain selected unless they are in the new selection area. Any selection will toggle the selection state of a submaster.

 

Change Description – Use this option to label the submaster. The label will appear along the top of the fader.

 

Set Description Color – The color of the description can be changed by selecting it from this option.

 

Reset Description Color – Select this option to return the color of the description back to its original color.

 

Set fixed column count – Used to set the number of cells per row. If set to 0, the column count is dynamic and will adjust automatically to fit the width of the window.

Grand Master Faders

To the right of the spin wheel in both fader mode and grid mode are controls for the grand masters.  Each grand master has a fader to control the level and a Dead Black Out (DBO) button.

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