Yamaha M7CL Managing the SCENE LIST., Editing scenes., Limiting the effects of scene recall., Recall Safe and Focus., Recall Safe; typical use examples.

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M7CL Quick Start Guide Part 3

Managing the SCENE LIST.

Scenes appear in the list next to a position number. Above

the list are [CUT], [COPY], [PASTE], and [INSERT]

option buttons so that you can re-order the scene list. This

also lets you clear un-used scenes. It is important to realize

that the scene number that you stored the scene into is only

a location and not part of the scene name. If you cut and

paste scenes they will change number.

There is an [UNDO] button for the scene management

options, but this is only for one action back.

Editing scenes.

Scene information can be edited by recalling the scene, making the required changes and

then restoring to the same location. Alternatively the session or scene can be opened in

Studio Manager M7CL Editor and changes made on an ofﬂine PC.

Scenes can be locked from being over-written by pressing the grey square in the padlock

icon column. Scene 000 is read only and cannot be over-written.

Limiting the effects of scene recall.

Scene recall is an extremely powerful function to help the sound engineer make many rapid changes to the console

between songs or scenes. However there are many circumstances when the engineer needs some changes but does not

want to implement other changes. M7CL has two different solutions to this limiting of scene recall; Recall Safe and

Focus.

Recall Safe and Focus.

When a scene is stored, all the parameters of all the channels are memorized, regardless of the consoles settings, but

when a scene is recalled with Recall Safe or Focus settings applied, the speciﬁc parameters of channels to be recalled

are limited by those settings, and the parameters remain unchanged by the recall. Recall Safe can be applied to a whole

channel or as Partial Recall Safe be applied to individual parameters.

Recall Safe affects the parameter in all scenes but Focus affects the parameter only when that speciﬁc scene is recalled.

Recall Safe; typical use examples.

1. If a special channel is added to an existing show made up of many scenes. This might be a presenters’ mic or safety

announcement mic. Each time a scene is recalled this mic channel will “disappear” because it is not part of the

newly recalled scene. By placing the mic channel in “Recall Safe” the scene recall does not affect that channel and

the mic will stay as before the scene recall.

2. Another common example is when using a scene for every song in a bands set. During the ﬁrst song the engineer

improves the sound of the bass drum by altering the EQ. When the second song starts the bass drum EQ is recalled

with the original EQ and the engineer must repeat their alterations. This workload accumulates throughout the set as

more channels are altered. By using “Partial Recall Safe” just the EQ of those channels can be removed from scene

recall so that it remains unchanged even when the fader level, sends, on/off etc is being changed.

3. GEQ and rack settings can be recall safed. This is quite desirable so that any system or monitor GEQ applied in

song one, is not undone when song two starts.