Benutzeranleitung / Produktwartung MC Control des Produzenten Euphonix
Zur Seite of 60
i USER GUIDE MUSIC | A UDIO POST | VIDEO | FILM Document Revision: B ar tist professional contr ol surface.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE ii In the interest of continued product development, Euphonix reserves the ri ght to make improvements to this manual and the product it describes at any ti me, without notice or obligation. MC Mix, MC Control, MC Pro, System 5-MC, and E uCon are trademarks of Euphonix, Inc.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE iii Canada Eur o pean Union Australia Japan This Class B digital apparatus complies wi th Canadian ICES-003 Cet appareil numérique de la clas s.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE iv IMPORTANT SAFETY INSTRUCTIONS The lighting flash with arrowhead symbol within an equilateral triangle, is intended to alert the user to the p.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE v 13) Unplug this apparatus during lightning storms or when unus ed for long periods of time. 14) Refer all servicing to qualif ied service personnel.
.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS vii Table of Contents List of Figures ......................... ............................................................................... xi Chapter 1: Introduction to the Artist .
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS viii 4.5 Knobs ................ ........................................................................ 33 4.5.1 Knob Set Selection . .................. .......................
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS ix 6.4.2 F ootswitch ............................................................. ........ 54 6.4.3 M C Control Display . .................. ...................................
.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE LIST OF FIGURES xi List of Figures 1-1 MC Control and MC Mix ........ .......................................................................... 13 2-1 Foldout leg (left); riser bracket (right) .
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE LIST OF FIGURES xii 6-2 Surfaces tab .. ................................................................................................. 48 6-3 Workstations tab ........................ ........
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTIST 13 Chapter 1: Introduction to the Artist The MC Control and MC Mix comprise the Artist desktop control surfaces. T h ey use a 100 Mbs Ethernet EuCon connection to control audi o/video applications r u n - ning on a workstation computer.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTIST 14 Conventions Used in this User Guide The User Guide refers to a ll functions labeled on the MC Control surface and rear panel with all caps in bold type (i.e., NUDGE X , PA N , SEL , SOLO ).
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 15 Chapter 2: Setup and Installation Euphonix is dedicate d to making your MC Control experience enjoyab le and trou- ble.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 16 Two larger, detached riser br ackets elevate and angle the unit more than the foldout legs. Use mo derate force to snap them in to the bottom panel as shown in Figure 2-1.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 17 To join an MC Control to an MC Mix: 1. On the MC Mix, use a #2 Phillips screwdriv er to remove the two silver scr ew s (Figure 2-3). The screws may be tight, so yo u may have to use some force.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 18 2.2 Installation 1. If you downloaded the late st software from the web, double-click the installer.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 19 6. Plug one end of the Ethernet crossover cable into the Ethernet jack (labeled with ) on the rear panel of the MC Control (F igu re 2 -8 ). Figure 2-8 Ethernet cable and re ar panel jack 7.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 20 9. Press and release the POWER switch on your MC Control. Look at the top-right of your screen and wait up to 60 seconds. A green icon in the menu bar indic ates correct installation.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SETUP AND INSTALLATION 21 Connecting a Footswitch The MC Control has a ¼-in FOOTSWITCH input on the rear panel. The footswitch can be used to punch in a nd out of recording. Plug the footswitch in before pow- ering on the MC Control.
.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE COMMON TASKS 23 Chapter 3: Common Tasks If you completed the steps in Chapter 2: Setup and Installation , you are ready to start learning about you r MC C ont ro l. We recommend performing these simple tu tor ial s o f c omm on tasks in the order pr es en ted .
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE COMMON TASKS 24 Fader Strip 1. Press strip 1’s fader SEL key on your MC Control (Figure 3-2). The corresponding track is selected in your application and highlighted on the Touchscreen. 2. Move strip 1’s fader up and down.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE COMMON TASKS 25 7. Press the BANK X key (Figure 3-2) to shift tracks over four at a time. If tracks 1–4 were assigned to strips 1–4, tracks 5–8 are now assigned to str ips 1–4. NUDGE W and BANK W keys perform similar operations but in the opposite direction.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE COMMON TASKS 26 Transport Keys and Jog Wheel 1. Use the PLAY , STOP , FF , and REW buttons to navigate th e timeline of the edit window of your application.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 27 Chapter 4: Surface Controls Figure 4-1 MC Control surface CFG PAGE BANK HOME NUDGE MIXER END BANK CLOSE NUDGE W O RK S TATIO.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 28 The MC Control has four ch annel strips each with a to uch-sensitive fader, eight touch-sensitive knobs surrounding a 7-in touchscreen, twelve soft keys, trans- port switches, a Jog wheel, and vari ous navigation buttons.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 29 4.3 Fader Strips The MC Control provides four fader strips , each with a touch-sensitive fader, that control tracks in an audio or video application. 4.3.1 Fader The fader controls the track assigned to t his strip.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 30 4.3.3 SOLO The SOLO key lights red when that strip’s tra ck is soloed and is unlit otherwise. 4.3.4 SEL Pressing a fader’s SEL key selects that track in the application and attentions it on the MC Control.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 31 4.4 Navigation Controls Scroll through th e application’s tracks using the BANK and NUDGE keys. HOME and END are shortcuts to the first and last banks, respectively. Figure 4-3 Fader navigation controls 4.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 32 BANK W Moves the window one bank (four tracks) to the left. If strips 1–4 had the bank starting at track 5, they now have th e bank starting with track 1. Pressing BANK W again does nothing because the first bank is already shown.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 33 4.4.5 WORKSTATION The MC Control can co ntrol applications running on a second computer, referred to in this guide as a workstation . Press the WORKSTATION key to attach the MC Control to another workstation.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 34 INSERTS Pressing the INSERTS key displays the inserts knob set for editing plug-ins. The first plug-in is displayed on the knob. Pr essing one of these Kno b Tops displays the first eight plug-in param eters for editing.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 35 4.5.2 Knob Functions Each knob has the fo llowing controls: • Touching the knob’s image on the Touc hscreen toggles the state of its pri- mary parameter, such as EQ Band 1 on/off.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 36 Configuration Pages (CFG) Many knob sets have a configuration pag e to set up that knob set. The configu- ration page for the Inserts knob set, for example, is used to assign plug-ins to a track.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 37 4.6 Soft Keys The MC Control supports Surface Soft Ke ys (discussed in this section) and Touchscreen Soft keys ( Soft Key View on page 43). Undern eath the Touchscreen are 12 soft keys (six per ro w).
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 38 4.7 Jog Wheel and Transport Controls The Jog Wheel controls jog, shuttle, zooming , and ot her functions. Surrounding it are keys that control Jog Whee l functions and transport keys.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 39 4.7.2 Transport Controls REW Press REW to rewind. This function va ries with the application. Implementations include: • Rewind until STOP or another key is pressed. • Rewind a fixed amount.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE SURFACE CONTROLS 40 4.8 CONTROL ROOM/ MONITOR Knob Turn the CONTROL ROOM knob to adjust the volume of the control room. The knob controls either Studio Monitor Expr ess or an application that supports a EuCon monitor section.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TOUCHSCREEN AND CONTROLS 41 Chapter 5: Touchscreen and Controls The MC Control has a wide aspect rati o Touchscreen mounted in its center. Figure 5-1 Touchscreen The Touchscreen always shows the following: Knob Displays: There are four on each side of the Touchscreen.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TOUCHSCREEN AND CONTROLS 42 Menu Bar: Displays the Tracks view, Soft K ey view, or Setup Screens on the Touchscreen.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TOUCHSCREEN AND CONTROLS 43 Mute: A dark grey button shows the track is muted. Sel: The track’s rectangle is hig hlighted in yellow to show it is selected. The last track selected is attentioned.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TOUCHSCREEN AND CONTROLS 44 5.3 Setup Screens Less commonly used functions are fou nd on the following Setup Touchscreens. The Soft Keys navigate th rough th em. The top-right Soft Key is Exit , which re- turns to the Touchscreen last used.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TOUCHSCREEN AND CONTROLS 45 Dim: Dims the control room volume (lit when dim is active). Cut: Mutes the control room volume (lit when cut is active). 5.3.2 Monitor The Monitor Touchscreen se lects the source of the monitor volume knob or mutes monitor A.
.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 47 Chapter 6: EuControl EuControl is launched auto matically upon starting yo ur Mac and runs in the background. EuControl is responsible for finding, linking, and communicating with all MC Controls and MC Mixes on the network.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 48 6.1 Surfaces The Surfaces tab shows all Artist devices on your network and th ose connected to your instance of EuControl. Figure 6-2 Surfaces tab All Surfaces All Surfaces shows all Ar tis t dev ic es on th e network.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 49 Add B Click Add B to add the selected All Surfaces entry to My Surfaces . This connects this Art is t de vic e to your instance of EuControl. You can also click and drag an Art ist dev ice from All Surfaces to My Surfaces.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 50 6.2 Workstations An Art ist dev ice can control applicatio ns running on a second computer, referred to in this guide as a workstation . The Workstations tab establishes the list of workstations that the WORKSTATION key cycles through.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 51 It is possible to put a workstation in the My Workstations list that is already attached to another instance of EuCont rol running on another computer. It c an n o t be attached here until it is unattach ed from the other ins tance of EuControl.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 52 6.3 General This tab controls how the Artist device and application software work together. Figure 6-4 General tab 6.3.1 Workstation tracks knob set changes The workstation is aware of which knobset is selected and displays appropriate controls.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 53 6.3.5 Auto-bank to selected track Selecting a track in the application caus es the MC Control to display the bank containing that track. This keeps the se lected track assigned to the surface.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 54 6.4 Preferences Figure 6-5 Preferences tab 6.4.1 MC Mix display screen dim time Drag the slider to se t the amount of inactive time before the display screens of any MC Mix(es) in your system dims to half intensity.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 55 Operation This category selects what happens when the footswitch is pressed. Choose the option that best suits your application. Record | Record : Pressing the footswitch presses the RECORD button, which punches in to record.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 56 6.5 Assign Figure 6-6 Assign tab This tab manages how tracks are assigned to the MC Control’s strips. By default, tracks are automatically as signed in banks of four. NOTE: When a project is reopened, the first fo ur tracks are assign ed to the strips.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 57 6.5.1 Display application’s track numbers Select this checkbox to display the tr ack number in addition to the name.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE EuControl 58 6.6 Layouts Figure 6-7 Layouts tab The tracks assign ed to the MC Control st rips can be saved as a Layout. A Layout is created from the current strip assignments and can re ceive a name.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE 59 Appendix A: Setting the IP Address Although most MC Control users will ne ver have to set a static Internet Proto- co l (IP) address, the MC Co ntrol does allow it in the rare cases that require it.
professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE 60 Figure 6-9 Network Setup Touchscreen with IP Address and Subnet Mask fields 3. Touch the first box of the IP Address field. Adjust its val ue by turning any of the eight knobs or the Jog Wheel.
Ein wichtiger Punkt beim Kauf des Geräts Euphonix MC Control (oder sogar vor seinem Kauf) ist das durchlesen seiner Bedienungsanleitung. Dies sollten wir wegen ein paar einfacher Gründe machen:
Wenn Sie Euphonix MC Control noch nicht gekauft haben, ist jetzt ein guter Moment, um sich mit den grundliegenden Daten des Produkts bekannt zu machen. Schauen Sie zuerst die ersten Seiten der Anleitung durch, die Sie oben finden. Dort finden Sie die wichtigsten technischen Daten für Euphonix MC Control - auf diese Weise prüfen Sie, ob das Gerät Ihren Wünschen entspricht. Wenn Sie tiefer in die Benutzeranleitung von Euphonix MC Control reinschauen, lernen Sie alle zugänglichen Produktfunktionen kennen, sowie erhalten Informationen über die Nutzung. Die Informationen, die Sie über Euphonix MC Control erhalten, werden Ihnen bestimmt bei der Kaufentscheidung helfen.
Wenn Sie aber schon Euphonix MC Control besitzen, und noch keine Gelegenheit dazu hatten, die Bedienungsanleitung zu lesen, sollten Sie es aufgrund der oben beschriebenen Gründe machen. Sie erfahren dann, ob Sie die zugänglichen Funktionen richtig genutzt haben, aber auch, ob Sie keine Fehler begangen haben, die den Nutzungszeitraum von Euphonix MC Control verkürzen könnten.
Jedoch ist die eine der wichtigsten Rollen, die eine Bedienungsanleitung für den Nutzer spielt, die Hilfe bei der Lösung von Problemen mit Euphonix MC Control. Sie finden dort fast immer Troubleshooting, also die am häufigsten auftauchenden Störungen und Mängel bei Euphonix MC Control gemeinsam mit Hinweisen bezüglich der Arten ihrer Lösung. Sogar wenn es Ihnen nicht gelingen sollte das Problem alleine zu bewältigen, die Anleitung zeigt Ihnen die weitere Vorgehensweise – den Kontakt zur Kundenberatung oder dem naheliegenden Service.
