Instruments and Menus | Overview This overview contains all descriptions about instruments and menus being available as context sensitive help texts on a fully equipped unit. The order of descriptions approximately follows the order of the quick start guide. Depending on the activated licences on your unit, the number of available instruments and menus may differ. Please note: In every help text specific characteristics of the different unit types or licences may be described.
| Main Menu
| System Menus
| Preset Menus
| Group Menus
| Loudness Menus
| Instruments (Functions and Menus)
| View Menu
| Licences Menu
• Main Menu The Main Menu is the starting point for the administration of the unit and for the creation and management of presets and its displays.
| > Main Menu |  |  |  |  |
| > Menu Locked |  |  |  |  |
back to top • System Menus The System menu with its five sub-menus provides the options for adapting the unit to your audio system.
| > System/General | > System/Audio | > System/Clock | > System/Nezwork | > System/Special |
| > Additional Infos |  |  |  |  |
| > Menu Lock |  |  |  |  |
| > Identification for Logging |  |  |  |
back to top • Presets Menus The Presets Menus provide the options for creating new presets and for editing and managing existing ones.
| > Internal/External Presets | > Preset Menu |  |  |
back to top • Group Menus The Group Menus provide the options for the fundamental configuration of Audio Groups and Non Audio Groups and for managing instruments.
| > Audio Group | > Non Audio Group |  |  |
| > Routing |  |  |  |  |
| > Edit Instruments |  |  |  |  |
back to top • Loudness Menus The Loudness Menus provide the options for the fundamental allocation of Loudness standards to Audio Groups and for the adjustment of loudness parameters.
| > Loudness |  |  |  |
| > Time & Gate |  |  |  |  |
| > Channel Weighting |  |  |  |  |
| > Label |  |  |  |  |
| > Test Time Control |  |  |  |  |
| > Tolerance Levels |  |  |  |  |
back to top • Instruments (Functions and Menus) All instruments being available on a TouchMonitor (with all licences activated) are listed in alphabetic order and marked with the corresponding icon. Use the links labelled Instrument to find the description of the instrument and its functions in normal operation. Settings, Keys, and other links open the descriptions of the instrument-specific menu options.
|  | AES Status AES Status monitor is used to display various parameters of AES3 digital audio signals in plain text. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Loudness Chart The Loudness Chart instrument is used to display and to analyze the course over time of a loudness measurement directly on the display. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Correlator The Stereo Correlator instrument is used to display the phase relationship between the two channels of a stereo signal (mono compatibility). |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Gain Reduction The Gain Reduction instrument is used to display external gain reduction data like compressor activity of a mixing desk channel. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Routing | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Global Keyboard The Global Keyboard provides definable on-screen keys for simultaneous control of defined functions in multiple instruments, and for preset recall. It also allows external control vial GP IO interface. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Hardware Status The Hardware Status instrument is a control display showing the state of the audio hardware (I/O boards, network). Beside the measured sample rate, it displays type and position of the mounted audio interfaces. |
| > Instrument |  |  | > Analogskalen | > Zusätzliche Grenzwerte |
|  | Loud. Recal. The Loudness Recalculation instrument (Loud. Recal.) is used to choose a timecode-controlled loudness measurement. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Logging The Logging instrument is used to collect data of Loudness and TruePeak measurements and either to store them on a USB memory stick or to send them via IP connection to the LQL - Loudness Quality Logger PC software for analyzing (PC software available for free to registered users). |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Main Limits | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Loudness Numeric The Loudness Numeric instrument (Loud. Num.) is used for the numerical display of the summed Loudness values M, S, or I, the Loudness Range LRA, the maximum values TPmax, Mmax, Smax, and the Integrated test time Itime of a Loudness measurement acc. to EBU R128, ITU BS.1770-4/1771-1, ARIB, ATSC A/85, OP-59, AGCOM, CALM Act, LEQ(M), TASA, SAWA, or specified by customer. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Loudness Sum The Loudness Sum bargraph instrument is used to display the summed Loudness values M, S, and/or I of a Loudness measurement acc. to EBU R128, ITU BS.1770-4/1771-1, ARIB, ATSC A/85, OP-59, AGCOM, CALM Act, LEQ(M), TASA, SAWA, or specified by customer. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | LRA The Loudness Range instrument (LRA) with MagicLRA mode is used to display a graphical representation of Loudness variances. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Moving Coil The Moving Coil instrument provides needle instruments for 2-channel stereo signals with PPM display (British), VU display, Loudness display, and combined PPM and Loudness display (BBC mode). |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Program Meter The Program Meter instrument (PPM) provides bargraph and numerical displays of PPM or TruePeak measurements with a comprehensive set of analog and digital scales. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Digital Scales | > Analog Scales | > Keys |
|  | RTA The Real Time Analyzer instrument (RTA) is used to display the spectral content of the selected input channel(s) using 31, 61 or 122 filter bands. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | SPL Sum The SPL Sum instrument is used to display the summed SPL level of all channels used in an audio group. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Timecode Reader The Timecode Reader instrument is used to decode and to display an SDI-embedded or LTC timecode for the use with Loudness and Logging applications. |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
|  | Vectorscope The Audio Vectorscope is used to display the phase relationship between the two channels of a channel pair (Lissajous display). |
| > Instrument | > Settings | > Keys | > Analog Scales | > Secondary Limits |
back to top • View Menu The View Menu provides the options for the positioning and the scaling of the instruments included in the Audio Groups of a Preset to be displayed on the screen.
| > View Menu |  |  |  |  |
back to top • Licences Menu The Licences Menu shows the activated software modules of the unit. For licences which have not been activated yet, the provides buttons for ordering them.
| > Licences Menu |  |  |  |  |
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