Panasonic Mixing Automation Expansion Software Users Guide

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Chapter  4
CUSTOMVIEWS
When you launch the application, you will see on your Macintosh what is
called the Custom View screen. The Custom View is MAXs most important
viewing screen. It contains all the key information you need about the
currently selected automated mix, including fader and knob positions,
channel on/offs, time code, and more. 
The Custom View screen can display up to 96 modules. These can be fader
modules, EQ modules, etc.  This screen can accommodate any combination of
modules that...

Some Custom Views have been purposefully left blank for you to design.
There are a total of 10 different Custom Views to work with. Look through
them by pressing the left and right arrows on the Macintosh keyboard to
quickly change to the next or previous view.
Alternately, select the Custom View screens from the Windows menu, or you
can use their Command key equivalents.
Though there are 10 different Custom View screens, there is really only one
window per mix. That window can display  any one of 10...

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Custom View
You may open more than one mix at a time. 
Each mix has its own window. 
When more than one mix is open, only the mix in the top most window will
play back when time code is received.
When a Custom View is in the background, the faders, knobs, and time code
will not be displayed.
Many of the Custom Views are already setup, to give you a useful
representation of the various automatable parameters of your mixer. It is
advised that you familiarize yourself with the existing Custom Views,...

EDITING THECUSTOMVIEWS
Editing the Custom Views may help make certain projects easier to work with.
You can make the view display as little or as much information as you need.
You might be working on a post production project with only four channels
of audio. You could create a Custom View with only four channels. This is
easy to look at and work with.
You could be using MAX to turn your mixer into a control surface for a hard
disk recorder. You could create a Custom View with only 8 faders for that...

Before editing the Custom Views, it is recommended that you consider the
feature as an aid to simplifying the mixing process. 
This is especially true if you begin to explore the potential of the Edit Module
begin creating new modules. 
It is better to approach the design of Custom Views and Modules with the
intent of making views with less information, or rather, only information
needed for the mix. It is possible to use these editing features to add
unneeded complexity to the software’s user...

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Custom Views
ABOUT THEEDITCUSTOMVIEWSDIALOGUE
This dialogue box  allows you to name your Custom Views and arrange them
by row. 
The View menu is used to select the Custom View.
The View Name allows you to name the View. Changes made to the View
Name appear in the View Menu, in the Windows menu, and also in the title
bar of the view.
A Custom View has 3 rows of modules.
For each row of modules you may pick the starting channel number, that is,
the left most channel.
You may also select the module type...

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Custom View
SELECTIONPOP-UPMENU
MAX allows you to redefine the arrangement and function of the modules in
the Custom View. There is a little triangle pointing down under each module.
Clicking on this triangle opens the Selection pop-up menu. 
Channel
Select Channel to change the channel of the module occupying this position.
Channel Names (entered and edited in the Names and Labels dialogue in the
Edit Menu) are displayed in the Channel Selection sub menu.
Group Master
If any channels have been turned...

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Custom Views
MIDI
Audio faders can be turned into MIDI faders by selecting MIDI and a
Controller number from the sub menu.
If MIDI faders already exist, they can be selected and placed within the
Custom View.
Module
Select Module to change the module currently occupying the position in the
Custom View.
Selecting New Module opens the Edit Module dialogue, discussed in a later
chapter.
Not used makes the module go away and inserts a “blank panel” in the
Custom View.
Hint: 
• You can also make a blank...

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Custom View
STANDARDFADERMODULEDESCRIPTION
SoftGroup Member Indicator
If the fader is a member of a SoftGroup, the SoftGroup master
fader number is displayed here. 
The indicator is color-coded to help you locate the SoftGroup
master.
Mode Indicator 
This shows the edit mode of the channel; 
Read, Write, Manual or Trim. 
Channel On/Off Buttons
Turns red when the channel is on.
Fader 
Represents the audio level of the channel.
If the fader is a SoftGroup master, the fader turns amber.
If the fader is...

More About Faders
The basic audio fader module has certain special characteristics,
which you should become familiar with. When a long or short
throw fader is controlling audio (and not MIDI), there may be
one or two fader “knobs” shown for each channel.
Level Fader 
This shows the true audio level of a channel at any moment.
This is the fader that automatically moves during playback. 
Phantom Fader 
When time code is being received, and the mix is playing back,
the Phantom fader shows the position of...