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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. ©2008 Euphonix, I[...]

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 se B est conforme à la norme NM B-003 du Canada ABN 91 051 557 905[...]

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 presence of uninsulate d “dangerous voltage” within the pro duct’s enclosure that may be of suff icient magnitude to constitute a risk of electri[...]

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. Servicin g is required when the appa- ratus has been damaged in any way, such as power-supply cord or plug is damaged, liquid has been spilled [...]

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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 ................................................................. 13 Chapter 2: Setup and I[...]

professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS viii 4.5 Knobs ................ ........................................................................ 33 4.5.1 Knob Set Selection . .................. ....................... .............. 33 4.5.2 Knob Functions ........ ..................................................[...]

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 . .................. ..................................... 55 6.5 Assign ................ .................................................................[...]

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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) ...................... ........................ ............... 15 2-2 Removing side panels (left); [...]

professional contr ol surface Ar tist Series USER GUIDE LIST OF FIGURES xii 6-2 Surfaces tab .. ................................................................................................. 48 6-3 Workstations tab ........................ .................................................................... 50 6-4 General 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. EuCon is a high-s peed communi[...]

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 ). The Shift key is used in co njunction with other keys to access secondary [...]

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-free so we will periodica lly update the following so ftware and documentation: • EuControl : This software runs your MC Control and communicates t[...]

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. To remove the riser brackets: 1. Slide the side panels off (Figure 2-2 left). Figure 2-2 Removin[...]

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. Figure 2-3 Removing screws from the bottom panel 2. Lift the black plastic[...]

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. Oth er wis e, insert the installation CD into your Macintosh. NOTE : Be sure to eject the installation CD in your Mac if you downloaded the latest software fr om th e [...]

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. Plug the other end of the Ethernet cr ossover cable into an open Ethernet jac[...]

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. If you did not see the green icon : •S e e My Surfaces on page 40 and add the MC C[...]

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. See page 46 for details. Figure 2-10 FOOTSWITCH input on re[...]

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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 . The following important use r in[...]

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. You are now controlling the l evel of your application’s first tr[...]

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. Inserts 1. Add a plug-in on[...]

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. 2. Press the JOG key. 3. Spin the Jog Wheel clo ckwise and counterclockwis e to move forward and backward, respectively, on th e t i m el[...]

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 N APPL ICATION TOP BACK JOG SHUTTLE ZOOM HORIZ ZOOM VERT POWER REC REW F F S T OP P LA Y SOFT KEYS HOME END MC CONTROL M O N I TO R CONTR OL ROOM PAG[...]

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. The MC Control comes with an external DC power suppl[...]

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. It is moto rized, so it reflects changes made in the appli[...]

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. The SEL key lights yellow when the track is selected and is unli[...]

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 4.4.1 BANK and NUDGE The BANK and NUDG E keys change which tracks ar [...]

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. BANK X Moves the window one bank (four tr[...]

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. You must first use EuControl to create a list of workstations tha[...]

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. Pressi ng a plug-in’s Knob Top di spl ays its param[...]

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. When on, a small green LED lights on the lower left. • Pressing the Shift key and to uch[...]

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. The configuration pa ge for the Aux knob set assi gns aux sends to a track. So[...]

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). The bottom of the Touchs creen contains labels for each soft key. Figure [...]

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. Many EuCon applications control far more functions with the Jo g Wheel, such as trimming c[...]

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. • Rewind while the REW key is pressed until it is released. FF Press FF to fa[...]

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. Press the CONTROL ROOM Knob Top key to mute the control room volume.[...]

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. They show the current kno[...]

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. The center of the screen changes to reflect the selected Menu view. 5.1 Tracks View Tracks view shows 32 tracks at a time so it al lows quickly muti ng, soloing, arm- ing, and s[...]

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. TS : Scrolls down/up one line of eight trac ks, if there are more lines of tracks in the project[...]

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. 5.3.1 Control Room The Control Room Touchscree n sele[...]

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. Holding down the Shift key and turning t[...]

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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. EuControl’s configuration tasks are accessed by clicki[...]

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. A device shown in light gray is already connected either to yo[...]

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. Add B is disabled if all Art ist d evic es in All 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. Any workstation run- ni ng EuCon software can[...]

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. This was done to allow multiple use[...]

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. 6.3.2 Open plug-ins on workstation [...]

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. 6.3.6 Display track numbers on surface The track number is included with th e track name[...]

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. 6.4.2 Footswitch The footswitch punches in and out of reco rding.[...]

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. Releasing the foot switch does nothing. Pressing the fo[...]

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. Click in the Assigned To c[...]

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. 6.5.2 Lock to application Transport : Select this checkbox to lock the transport and Jog Wheel controls to the application listed at the top-left of the d ialog ([...]

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. It can then be recalled at a later time. 6.6.1 Recall Highlight a name in the Name column and[...]

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. Normally the MC Control uses Dynami c Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to obtain its IP ad[...]

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. 4. Use this technique to a djust all values of the IP Addres s and the Subnet Mask fields. 5. Tou[...]