Welcome to the Sonicview Learning Center.
This is video number one, and in this video we will show you what we call Channel View,
and the general navigation of the Sonicview. This is a Sonicview 24.
We also have a Sonicview 16. They are identical as far as the operation and the procedures concerned.
The only difference really as far as the procedures is that Sonicview 16 has two screens,
Sonicview 24 has three, and of course it has one extra section of eight more channels on the face of the product.
So this is called Home or channel mode what we call it at Tascam.
Channel mode is made to replicate an analog mixer or a vertical kind of a channel strip
that you would find almost on an analog mixer. So for example channel 17, follow it down:
Gain, the Gate, EQ, the Sends, there are four on this particular screen,
Send/Pan and the panning, and what channel are we on. Follow it down:
Editing knobs, Mute, Solo, Select and the customized LED
where you can put on icons and name it and all that good stuff.
And of course the mechanical fader for channel 17.
Now, there’s several ways to edit and to do things as far as procedure and editing on a Sonicview.
For example, you can use your finger. I just touched the top, the gain knobs.
Notice that there is a white box around all of those and if I touch the the pan here
you’ll notice the white box shifted here which means that this is editing for the panning as far as the knobs go.
Sonicview comes with a pen, and the pen is very handy as well.
You can choose to use the pen, you can use your finger.
I’ll go back to the pans. Notice that the box again is around here, it’s green, it’s green on the knobs.
Turn the knob and right pan left, and if you take any knob in edit mode
and push it in, it goes to coarse mode.
So in fine mode one click is one movement on the screen, push it in,
coarse very fast. So you can get close to where you want and then go to fine.
It’s a great way to do that. It’s the same thing let’s use the pen here with the gains:
red, red. I’ll choose channel 16 here, turn the knob. You can see I’m changing the gain.
I’m doing all of this without going into so-called Edit modes or different screens by the way,
which is one of the values of this Channel Mode which, again, replicates kind of an analog mixer.
If I push in the button, it’s in coarse mode.
So I’ll point to see that move as well, and there are four sends here for every channel.
I can choose number two, you see the white box up here. and I can turn the knob,
and what I’m doing here is channel 18 is going to Mix 2 or the send on Mix 2, and it’s as easy as that.
Let’s go to three, different channel here, number 12. I’m using send on that particular channel as well.
There are also some very simple buttons so for example Mute.
Very simple. Just … you can do group mutes. You can set it up so you can do mutes all simultaneously
or just one at a time. There’s a Solo in-place button, very simple stuff.
And then if I hit Select, it goes into the module, we call the module view of channel 17 in this case.
You hit Select again and it goes back to the channel mode or the Home screen.
And by the way, if you hit Select, you can always hit HOME here.
It’ll take all screens simultaneous and take them to channel mode.
So that’s a quick overview of what we call Channel Mode and the way that the Sonicview can work.
Thank you!