Control Surface
Around the world, the highest profile broadcast organisations rely on C100 technology to deliver reliable, sonically superb performance for mono, stereo and surround productions. Everything, from the console layout to the quickly manipulable channel layering, and even the console’s colour scheme, is designed to create a confident, pleasant, sustainable working environment for coping with complex or lengthy sessions. While operation is simple, the feature set is comprehensive, providing all of the reset and configuration benefits associated with digital technology.
Hybrid interface, employing Assignable and Dedicated control technology
The ultimate fusion of highly evolved hardware control surface, touchscreen interface and powerful, intuitive software environment, the C100 is an ergonomic masterpiece, enabling a simplicity of operation which belies the processing power and comprehensive feature set within.
The control concepts developed for the C100 are the product of years of design experience and careful consultation with operators. The result is a console which perfectly balances a capacity for highly detailed configuration with an uncluttered, sustainable working environment.
This is attained through a combination of beautifully organized dedicated and assignable hardware controls, and an intuitive central touchscreen:
- Dedicated hardware controls provide constant access to essential ‘on-line’ functions, allowing experienced operators to develop the level of muscle-memory that is required for efficient audio operation, and enabling less experienced operators to build confidence.
- Extensive user-assignable softkeys prevent infrequently accessed functions from crowding the workspace and allow the console to be perfectly adapted to the specific requirements of any project.
- The touchscreen enables settings and projects to be recalled quickly, and keeps all of the powerful signal processing, routing and configuration tools elegantly folded out of the way, while ensuring that hidden processes can still be monitored closely. When requirements do change suddenly, the touchscreen enables you to drill down into the detail of your mix environment extremely quickly for immediate adjustments.
The concept of combining dedicated and assignable controls extends to control surface channel assignments: Multiple layers of channels can be quickly selected in either conventional banks of contiguous signals, or user-defined layouts which can be easily re-arranged, even while on air. This offers the user both a stable layout that enables every signal to be quickly located, and a more versatile layout which ensures that essential signals are kept close, and enables signal-heavy sessions to be handled smoothly, even on more compact console sizes.
- A compact, clear and logical layout, with controls that assist error-free operation, for all levels of user experience.
- A control surface which is familiar and uncluttered even when handling complex 5.1 set ups, belying the processing power and comprehensive feature set within.
- Configurable channel layers, reordered even while on-air.