Designing control surfaces, Placing objects – Biamp A4 User Manual
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Designing Control Surfaces
Placing Objects
Start the daVinci software program, and
close any unwanted files that may have
opened automatically from a previous
session. Start a
and select either
Audia or Nexia as the type of system to be
controlled. To continue working with a
previously saved file,
that file instead.
NOTE: File extensions are: .dva for Audia
and .dvn for Nexia.
Begin placing control objects into the
. This can be done in three different
ways:
1) Place individual controls from the
. Individual controls must then have Data
Attributes assigned to them via the
. Data Attributes include the Instance ID (or
Instance ID Tag), DSP Block Type, Attribute, and Input/Output for the specific component
being controlled. This information must be available from the Audia or Nexia system design file.
Control Bar
2) Place grouped sets of controls from the
. Controls from the Object Bar represent
typical Audia or Nexia system design components. Therefore, only an Instance ID (or Instance
ID Tag) is required for the group as a whole (all other Data Attributes are pre-assigned). The
Instance ID (or Instance ID Tag) is assigned via the
, by first disabling 1By1. This
information must be available from the Audia or Nexia system design file.
Object Bar
3) Copy component objects from a compiled Audia or Nexia system design file, and paste them
directly into the daVinci Surface. Data Attributes are automatically copied from the system
design component(s) into the resulting daVinci control object(s), and do not require assignment
via the
. The resulting controls will be individual and/or grouped depending upon
the types of component(s) copied.
Note: Preset names can only be copied into daVinci independently of the blocks, by right-clicking
the Preset block in the system design file, selecting Copy Preset Labels, then right-clicking over
the associated control in the daVinci file and selecting Paste Preset Labels.
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