The Control Room channel is the representation of the bus that is set up as the Main Mix bus on the Outputs tab in the Audio Connections window.
- Activate Control Room Channel
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Allows you to activate/deactivate the Control Room channel.
- Source selectors
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Allow you to select the source for the Control Room channel. The available sources depend on the channels that you added to the Control Room. The signal presence indicators in the upper left corner light up when the source channel is sending data to the Control Room channel.
- Activate Metronome Click
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Activates the metronome click.
- Enable Listen for Output
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Enables the listen bus function for the Control Room output.
- Dim Signal
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Activate this to lower the Control Room level by a fixed amount. This allows for a quick reduction in monitor volume without disturbing the current monitor level. Clicking Dim again returns the monitor level to the previous setting.
- Use Reference Level
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Enable this button to set the Control Room level to the reference level, as specified in the Preferences dialog (VST—Control Room page). The reference level is the level that is used in calibrated mixing environments, such as film dubbing stages.
- Control Room Level
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Allows you to set the volume for the Control Room output. This does not affect the recording input level or the Main Mix level for exporting mixdowns. Ctrl/Cmd-click to set the level to the reference level, as specified in the Preferences dialog (VST—Control Room page).
- Signal meter
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Shows the volume for the Control Room output.
- Monitor selectors
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Allow you to select another monitor source.
- Downmix Preset selectors
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Allow you to select another downmix preset.
- Activate Talkback
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Allows you to activate talkback for communication between the Control Room and the performers in the studio. Click to activate, click and hold for momentary mode.
- Click Level/Click Pan
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Use the Click Level and the Click Pan controls to set the volume and the pan position of the metronome click for the Control Room channel.
- Talk Dim Level
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When Talkback is active, this slider controls how much the output of all the channels in the Control Room is reduced to prevent unwanted feedback.
- AFL/PFL
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Allows you to determine whether the signal of a listen-enabled channel is routed to the Control Room channel after applying the fader and pan settings AFL or before applying the fader and pan settings PFL.
- Listen Level
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Allows you to adjust the volume of listen bus signals that are routed to the Control Room output.
- Listen Dim
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Allows you to adjust the volume of the Main Mix when channels are in listen mode. This keeps listen-enabled channels in context with the Main Mix. If the Listen Dim level is set to the minimum value, you hear the listen-enabled channels only.