Operation Manual

Soundcraft Vi Series™ User Guide 1112Page 15 - 6
Snapshot Preview Mode
Snapshot Preview mode allows snapshots to be recalled to the console surface
without affecting the audio running in the DSP core, and so provides as useful
way to check what is about to be recalled in a Cue, during a show.
When the desk is in Preview mode, the Control Surface is effectively taken
off-line from the DSP core, so that existing Cues can be recalled or edited, or
new ones created, and there will be no effect on the audio, which will continue
running with the settings that were active at the moment Preview mode was
switched on.
When Preview mode is switched OFF again, the surface will automatically jump back to match the state
that it was in at the moment Preview mode was switched ON – meaning that it will once again be in sync
with the audio.
When the desk is in Preview mode, no control of audio is possible, so the Preview button itself ashes, and
a yellow/black striped strip is displayed across the bottom of all Input bay touch screens as a warning.
If you have made changes to the desk parameters whilst in Preview mode, and you want to keep these,
you must either update an existing snapshot, or create a new one, otherwise the changes will be lost when
you exit Preview mode.
You can also use Preview mode to ‘lock’ the audio before you change to a new Show le – the audio set-
tings will remain as per the old show, and when you switch off the Preview mode the new Show settings
will be applied to the audio.