"locking" channel selection

Paul, at the moment, there isn't a way to lock your channel selection to only what is seen in the current flexi-channel view.   There is a related function to what you are asking for .... which is to use partitioned control.   If you attempt to select channels outside of your partition, the desk prompts you before allowing access.   The issue right now, for your purposes, is that partitions are built manually.  So, once you know what your show channels list is, you have to build a partition specially with those channels (i.e, it is not dynamic based on a condition).  However, I could see that building a more fluid state into your partition could be of use.

It sorta feels like partitions are the correct place for this channel access to reside, rather than a flexi-condition.  But am certainly interested to hear what everyone else thinks.

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Thanks,

a

And after you've placed your selected channels into a partition. You then might want to select your view into partition patched channel mode. I think you hold flexi and it comes up as a soft key, this will put you in partitions flexi mode.

Anne- I feel partitions are a good place for this functionality to remain but it is a bit cumbersome to remember to update everytime a patch change is made during tech- I wonder if it's possible to make a Partition for patched channels that auto-updates?

Matt, the ability to build partitions that are less "hard" and more conditional is on the list.

:-)

a

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

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.