"locking" channel selection

High there,

this is my first post, so: my name is Paul and I´m working with an EOS-Console (Software-Version 1.9.6) in the Theater-Basel since this Summer, formerly we had a Transtechnik Prisma NT, so maybe some of my questions are aiming for functions we had on that board.

What I´m searching for right now is the possibility to "lock" my Live-Channel-Selection.

For example: my flexi selection is "show channels" and i don´t want to be able to select any channels that are not in the show right now. If I´m trying to select Channel 1011 and by excident I just hit the keys for channel 111 I don´t want it to appear in my live channels but maybe an error indication.

Is there a possibility to "lock" my selection like that?

 

Thx for every Idea,

Paul

 

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  • hey everybody

    as someone who has "grwon up" with the transtechnik consoles, let me explain the function to you: There was a mask-button "MAS", that would toggle between "open" and "closed". when open you could select all channels and those who weren't already on the screen would be added (for simpleness' sake, lets assume we're in a kind of flexi show-channels). if closed, channels not on the screen would be denied. this way, you had some sort of typo-filter (and filter for other kinds of channel mixups). the closed mask would also be the only way to select a range without bringing previously unused channels inbetween to the screen (the thru / thru-thru command doesn't work there).

    and one last aspect of the old mask functionality: you could record a mask as mask-cue. when stepping through this cue the screen would reformat and show only channels that were recrorded into this mask cue (no intensities, just being there or not being there). typically you would have a mask cue before ever act of an opera to get rid of channels that you only used before. with no zoom in the intensities view, screen real estate was valuable... ;-)

    one of the many small normal-day helpers we ntx-people tend to miss...

    regard from switzerland, ueli

  • Thanks to everybody!

    As you can Imagine (especially with Uelis good description of the NTX funktion) the partitioned control is not exactly what I hoped to find (´cause not that flexible) but still a usefull tool I didn´t know about.

    I think one of the biggest advantages to "lock" and "unlock" the channel selection with only one button is to prevent using wrong channels during live shows, but still beeing able to select one that wasn´t in the show till then, for example when a lamp is breaking during show and you have to improvise.

    Another thing I loved to learn was about the ThruThru command, I´d never heard about before and was really annoyed when I was in "Show-Channels" and  tried to select a range of channels with one part already in the show, another not and by pressing Thru I only got the part already in. Now I have a realistic chance to do it on the first try.

    So, thank you.



    [edited by: Paule at 8:32 AM (GMT -6) on Sat, Oct 1 2011]
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