Peavey CREST AUDIO tactus Control Surface User manual

tactus™Control Surface
Operating
Manual
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This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC rules and Industry Canada license-exempt RSS Standard(s). Operation is
subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must
accept any interference received, that may cause undesired operation.
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brouillage est susceptible d’en compromettre le fonctionnement.
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pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against
harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio
frequency energy and, if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful
interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a
particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception,
which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on, the user is encouraged to try and correct the
interference by one or more of the following measures.
•Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna.
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tactus.control Surface
Thank you for your purchase of the Crest Audio Tactus hardware control surface. tactus.c ontrol is designed to augment the touch screen
control of the eMotion LV1, “Tactus” mix system. The control surface provides the user with a physical control alternative for faders, knobs
and strategic buttons in the mixer. It is not intended to be a standalone control surface, but used in conjunction with a touch screen to provide
an efficient control interface. The surface provides instant access to Mute group, User assignable buttons and Scene controls reducing the
need to change layers to access these controls. It also has four dynamically assigned encoders that simplify plug-in control. The surface
connects to the computer running LV1 using USB. The size and scope of the control surface was designed to be small so that monitor will still
be in easy reach of the user.
Features:
• 16 Motorized channel faders
• 2 fully assignable Motorized Master faders
• Lighted Mute, Cue and Select buttons for each channel
• Multi-line OLED scribble strip display on each channel
• 8 Lighted Mute group buttons
• 8 Lighted User assignable function buttons with OLED labels
• 4 plugin parameter controls with OLED labels
• Up/Down Layer select buttons
• Layer “Follow” button to follow screen layer selection or select layer independently
• Scene selection and recall buttons
• Solo Clear and Cue level adjust knob
• Precision parameter adjust knob for any screen selected control
Go to www.tactusdigitalmixing.com for more information.
Also see www.waves.com for eMotion LV1 information.
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Connection Fast Start
e Tactus Control surface connects to the computer running the Waves eMotion LV1 application via USB.
WARNING: Do not connect to the USB port on tactus.FOH. It will not work.
Connect the external 19 VDC power supply to the connector adjacent to USB connector.
Turn the power switch on.
In the LV1 SETUP> SYSTEM INVENTORY screen, add the Tactus Control to the controls inventory.
Open the Control panel and select the surface as the Main Device if the only control surface or Secondary De-
vice if the second surface.

Go thru the other settings including which mixer screen (1 or 2) to follow or Stand Alone, and assign controls to
each of the master faders.
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Channel strip:
e controls and display on each channel strip on the control surface changes to reect the controls of the layer
selected. ese can either duplicate the controls on the mixer screen selected layer or the control surface lay-
er can be selected independently. Either way, the display in each channel identies the current function of the
channel.
(1) Channel Fader:
Moves to represent the current fader position of the channel on the selected layer. When the fader is moved,
update messages are sent to update the corresponding fader in LV1. e channel fader normally controls the
channel level but can also control an auxiliary send if the faders have been ipped.
(2) Mute:
e mute button illuminates Red when the channel is muted and is used to control the mute function.
(3) Scribble Strip Display:
e display identies the channel number, bus selected and shows the user supplied channel name.
For example:
Ch 16 reects the controls for mixer channel 16.
AxFp16 is aux 16 send ipped to channel faders.
DCA represents a DCA master.
Mtrx represents a Matrix master.
(4) Cue:
e Cue button illuminates Blue when Cue is activated. is activates the send from this channel to the Cue bus.
(5) Select:
e channel select button illuminates White when the channel is selected. When the channel select button is
pressed, the channel page and channel view mode are updated to provide the user access to its channel specic
controls.
(6) Master Faders 1 and 2:
Unlike the channel faders, the master faders normally do not change function when control layers are changed.
e exception is if “Follow Aux Flip” is selected in control surface options. eir function is dened in the Tac-
tus control panel in the setup> System Inventory screen.
Any faders in the console can be assigned to these faders. For example, these faders can be used to control aux
fed subwoofers or reverb level.

(7) Mute Group Buttons:
e 8 mute group buttons duplicate the mute buttons on the screen. Channels are assigned to mute groups in the
channel view.
(8) User Buttons:
e eight “User” buttons on the master overview screen are duplicated on the surface. is makes these import-
ant controls quickly available at all times. e User button function is identied in the associated display. ese
buttons are lit as appropriate for the assigned function.
e User button assignment is handled in the Setup> U/I Settings screen in LV1.
(9) Plugins Controls:
ere are 4 rotary encoders with switches that are dedicated to control of console plugins. e top line of text
in the display above each knob describes the function of the knob when turned. e second line of the screen
describes the switch function when pressed. When a channel is selected, the knobs default to control of the 8
eects sends. e page Up/Down buttons step through the bus selections.
When a plugin is selected, its parameters become available for adjustment on these knobs.
(10) Page Up/Down:
Use the page Up/Down step thought the available groups of controls.
(11) Scene Controls:
PREV: is button is used to preselect the previously recalled scene for Recall
NEXT: is button is used to preselect the next scene in sequence for Recall
UNDO: is button is used to preselect the console settings before the last for scene Recall for recall.
“Undo the last scene recall”.
RECALL: is button is used to Recall the selected scene.

(12) Layer Controls:
Layer Follow: When the Layer Follow button is lit, the layer on the control surface follows the layer selec
tion on the associated Mixer screen. However, the “ALL” layer is not a valid selection for tactus.control.
When “ALL is selected, tactus.control remains on the previously selected layer.
Up and Down: e up and down buttons can be used to change control layers on tactus control. If the
control surface is following the layer selection of one of mixer layer, the layer selection on the screen will
also change. However, if the control surface is not following the screen, the UP/Down buttons will change
the layer selection on the surface only. “All” cannot be selected using the up/down buttons.
(13) Cue System:
Solo Clear is lit whenever a Cue button is pressed. Pressing Solo Clear, Clears all of the Cue selections in the
console. e Cue encoder adjusts the cue system Master level.
(14) Control Knob:
e control knob is actually one of the most important controls on the tactus.control surface. Whatever control
is selected on one of the mixer screens is selected for control with this knob. Simply touching a knob button or
Aux slider brings immediate control of that function to the control knob. Pressing the control also works for
switch controls.
Dimensions:
With Back supports: W x D x H: 24.6” x 12.6” x 3” (62.5 cm x 32 cm x 7.6 cm)
Without Back supports: W x D x H 24.6” x 12.6” x 1.6” (62.5 cm x 32 cm x 4.1 cm)
Note: this does not include the height of the knobs which extend up to 0.5” (12.7 cm)
above the top surface.
Weight: 9.75 lbs (4.43 kg)
Power Requirements: 19VDC 4.7A
External Power supply
Dimensions: L x W x H: 7 x 2.5 x 1.5
Power supply Input: 100-240VAC 50/60 Hz
Power Supply Output: 19VDC 6.32A
Weight: 9.75 lbs (4.43 kg)
Specifications

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(OJ(L)37/38,13.02.03 and defined in EN 50419: 2005
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is applied only to equipment manufactured after
13 August 2005
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