Display Mode - BLITS Instrument

| General Description
| Instrument Description
| Control Bar - left (upper) section: BLITS instrument functions
| Control Bar - right (lower) section

General Description

In display mode, the TouchMonitor shows the instruments and their layout defined in the currently loaded preset.

Touching the screen area of an instrument will put this instrument into focus. This is recognized by a colored frame instead of a grey one. The frame color conforms to the identifier set for the group the focused instrument belongs to.

The Control Bar positioned at the lower screen edge contains several keys. It is displayed permanently if the "Control Bar" option in the "General" section of the "System" menu is set to "permanent". Otherwise, it will be displayed temporarily after touching the screen.

The Control Bar has two sections. The left (upper) section shows the specific keys defined for the focused instrument. This makes it very fast to access a specific function of one of the instruments on screen – just touch the instrument and select the desired function.
The right (lower) section shows general keys.

Please note:
The specific keys that are displayed in the left (upper) Control Bar section can be defined individually for each instrument. To do this, touch the "Edit Instrument" key and select the "Configure Keys" option in the menu. The default value for each key can be set in the menu as well.

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Instrument Description

The BLITS instrument is used for analyzing of BLITS signals and for generating BLITS and Stereo Ident signals. The especially developed analyzer for the BLITS test tone sequence allows a user friendly and comprehensive analysis and display of level, channel allocation, phase, delay and polarity of incoming digital audio signals in 5.1 mode.
With the analyzer mode activated, the BLITS instrument on the screen shows an incoming BLITS signal by the use of green marks on the upper Analyzer line. When the signal has completely been received, the signal quality is displayed on status bars, being green coloured, if anything is alright, but red coloured, if there is any error. In the report below the bars, the different values for each channel are listed and can be analyzed.
With the generator mode activated, the BLITS instrument on the screen shows an outgoing BLITS or Stereo Ident signal by the use of green marks on the upper Generator line.
BLITS (Black & Lane's Ident Tones für Surround) is a tool to allow testing for channel allocation, level and phase of 5.1 surround signals. Developed by Martin Black and Keith Lane from Sky TV in London in 2004, this sequence is widely used in international broadcasting.

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Control Bar - left (upper) section: BLITS instrument functions

For this instrument there are no function keys available

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Control Bar - right (lower) section

The right (lower) section of the Control Bar always contains the following four keys:

• Edit Instrument
This key is used to directly access the menu parameters of the focused instrument. Any edits in the menu are saved to the current preset using the "Save" key.

• Load Preset
This key is used to load one of the presets stored in the unit’s internal memory or on an USB storage medium connected to one of the USB ports.

• Menu
This key is used to enter the Main Menu. This is the starting point for global system configuration, licence handling and preset management.

• Help
This key is used to enter the onscreen help for normal display mode (this text). Depending on the focused instrument, the help page will also describe the individual keys of this instrument.

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