Operation Manual

Soundcraft Vi Series™ User Guide 1112Page 8 - 12
User Dened Output Fader Pages
With previous software versions on the Vi consoles, the Output Faders
in the centre section of the console have only been accessible via 4
‘xed’ fader pages A,B,C,&D, with two xed VCA fader pages under
‘VCA and ‘E’. Version 4.0 software unlocks the page buttons A – E
and allows exible congurations of Output busses and VCA Masters
on any of the pages. (The ‘VCA page remains xed and is dedicated
to VCAs 1-8).
Although most users are quite happy with the xed fader pages on
outputs, because it’s generally easy to nd things when they run in
banks of 8, there are two primary reasons why this new functionality
is useful:
* Being able to combine VCA masters alongside audio bus masters
in the same fader page. This would be useful if you had a VCA that
was controlling several outputs for example.
* Being able to ‘drop’ one side of Stereo bus masters from a Fader
Page in order to allow more Stereo outputs to be controlled at the
same time.
The second of these benets will be particularly useful for monitor
engineers, who will now be able to control up to 8 stereo mixes at
the same time without having to change fader page.