Control Panel VKEY 100 / external keyboard – AUDIO: INPUT MUTE
In the audio mixer, each input has a separate slider for adjusting this input’s signal level. Audio: Input Mute function allows you to mute (enable Mute to) a single channel selected from the Audio Mixer’s inputs. These are: Line In 1, Line In 2, Camera1, Camera2, Camera3, Camera4, MIC, Media 1, Media 2, and Sound.
For example, let’s use Audio: Input Mute function to enable Mute option for a signal from a Camera1 input.
In order to add the function to a KeyF function key, press a square icon with a plus sign.
A drop-down list of functions will appear: Select command type. To select a function, highlight it with a cursor and double-click it or click on an icon: Add. The function will be added to the bank. In the same manner you can add more functions with different ranges.
To delete a chosen function, you have to move the cursor on it so that it becomes highlighted and press a button with a minus sign (as shown above). The function will be deleted.
After adding Audio Input: Mute, the following options will appear on the right side of the window: Audio Input and Mute.
Audio Input option – from the drop-down list, choose an input to which you want to apply Mute function.
Mute option: when you tick the Enabled On / Off checkbox, it means you want to turn Mute function ON. That is, when the Trigger is activated by pressing the KeyF, the sound on Camera1 channel will be muted.
If the checkbox is not ticked, then pressing KeyF will turn Mute function OFF.
If there are several functions assigned to one KeyF, you can change their order. Select one of them and move it up or down using the cursor
To test operation of a single function, highlight it with the cursor and press Test Command button on the screen. To turn the testing off, press Test Command button again with the cursor.
After pressing Test button for the selected Audio Input: Mute function, the sound will be muted. You can see on the screen that a MUTE checkbox under Camera1 slider in the Audio In settings is automatically ticked.
Run Macro button located on the right side, right next to Test Command button, allows you to test the entire set of functions assigned to the given KeyF’s bank. Pressing Run Macro button should show you how the functions set would work if you pressed a physical function key F on a PC keyboard or on a VKey- 100 control panel.
Example: We want to create a set of functions so that, when you press F1 key on a PC keyboard or on a VKey-100 control panel, the Camera1 sound is muted for 10 seconds.
We start with a function:
Audio: Input Mute – select Camera1 from the drop-down list in the Audio Input field. Tick Enabled On / Off checkbox, enabling the function. When you press plus button, select General Delay from the Select command type drop-down list.
This function allows you to incorporate a pause defined in seconds or frames. We set a 10 seconds delay in the Transition field.
As a third one, add again Audio Input: Mute function from the dropdown list. Set it for Camera1, but this time do not tick the Enabled On / Off checkbox. This means Audio Input: Mute function for Camera1 will be disabled.
The whole sequence triggered with the function key will be as follows:
- Mute the sound of Camera1 channel.
- The mute lasts 10 seconds.
- Turn off mute for this channel.
Example: You can enable Audio Input: Mute for several input channels. Then, after turning on this Trigger, the Mute function will be enabled simultaneously for all the chosen sliders. All selected channels will be muted after pressing a single function key on the keyboard. The image below – muted channels: Media1, Media2, and MIC.
