Welcome to the Sonicview Learning Center!
In this video number two we will show you what we call Individual Mode
and how to set up Sonicview the way that you want to work and the way you like to work.
We’ll also show you how to set up custom LEDs on the channel strips.
Let’s do it. So Sonicview has a method where … Let’s go into Edit mode. I will hit SELECT here.
I have selected channel 17 and of course channel 17 comes up on the screen.
EQ has been selected, I can choose any of the other processors, compressor, send, gate.
Let’s keep it on EQ here for channel 17.
So you may want to work on the same channel at once with different processors.
No problem with Sonicview.
Let’s touch FULL SCREEN.
By hitting FULL SCREEN, you’ll see that the other two screens went into their edit modes
but automatically chased or followed the original channel, channel 17.
So I have channel 17 here which happens to be on gate and I have channel 17 here
which we can set on compressor and we still have channel 17 here on EQ.
This is one way you may want to work and your favorite way.
Same channel, 17 in this case different modules, but on the same channel.
Let’s do the opposite. You may want to work on different channels simultaneously
but with EQ on different channels on the screens. No problem.
I will go back and turn FULL SCREEN off.
I’m still on 17 here. If I hit Select, let’s say on channel 15,
it doesn’t chase channel 17, it’s now 15.
If I choose channel 8 here of course channel 8 comes up on this screen.
I can set them all to EQ which they are set.
Let’s turn EQ on here, and EQ was already on here.
So another way to work because of the flexibility of what we call the Individual Mode.
Channel 17 EQ, channel 15 EQ, channel 8 EQ.
You say well how do I go to different channels then with EQ. No problem.
Just hit the Select buttons, hit the select button, hit the select button.
In this case channel 6, 14 and 18 had been chosen.
The question then arises: well Sonicview looks like it’s laid out in groups of eight channels.
It is. So I can hit a Select here, I just hit 19.
But what happens if I want to get 18 and 19 which are in the same group at the same time?
No problem.
You’ll see on the top here that there is an increment forward and an increment backward.
So I will just keep going and touch it a couple times until I get to channel 18.
Channel 19 is already here and so now you have two contiguous channels or channels within the same block
that you can edit. EQ, EQ, EQ.
So that’s how you go increment forward and backwards.
You just use the top forward/backward or if you don’t need to have them contiguous just hit Select.
Let’s talk about the custom LEDs on Sonicview.
There’s a custom LED for every channel and I’ve got channel 19 selected here.
If you wanted to change or alter or make that a custom LED, you simply touch the channel number,
channel 19 in this case.
First thing that comes up is your color selection.
Right now all of the channels are in blue.
And if you want a different color on channel 19, just choose it.
If you would want white, just choose it. If you would want red, choose it.
So you can do the same thing on any of the other channels.
Just touch those and choose the color that you want a channel to be. 15 was already up, there it is.
So why would you want to do that? Well it’s simple.
You may want all of your horns to be red, your vocals to be white,
your drums to be black, your string section to be green.
You can set it up so it’s visually attached to the same family of the same kind of instruments.
In this case let’s say I want four of the channels here 17, 18, 19, 20 to be red. No problem.
Select channel 20, choose red, 18 select, 17 choose red.
You can also name each module.
So you can just use the keypad here and put in a name, hit enter,
And you’ll see name came up here. I named it name.
And each LED can also have a custom icon or an icon from the library, I should say.
So there’s many to choose from like a dynamic mic here appears
and if I’m on 17 I want a dynamic mic there as well, no problem. Let’s go back to 18.
This may be part of a drum kit. I can put a cimbal there.
Let’s go to Others or Keyboard, you can put a keyboard here.
I can choose what they call icons and I can put in some some different stuff.
This may be overhead mics which is the audience, or it may be the big star of the show
or it may be Caution, never ever touch that channel
because that is cannot be touched and nothing could be changed on that channel.
So that’s how you get around on the LEDs. It’s very simple.
Don’t forget that upper left there’s an arrow going backwards.
Now I’m back to the EQ. And if I hit it again I’m back to the Home screen.
And as always you can hit HOME at the button here and all three screens go back to channel view or their home.
Okay, so to learn how to use individual module processors on the Sonicview
we’re going to do that on video number three.