Creating Remote Control Views

Click on the symbol in the tool bar to open the view editor. Alternatively, you can reach this window via the Administration menu. The View Editor appears.

You can see the Userdefined Views-Section on the left. Click Add to create a new view. Click Remove to remove the currently selected view. If a remote view was edited and is not saved yet, this is indicated by a * entry in the Mod. (Modificated) column.

The Edit View section is split in two parts. On the right, there are three tabs: Elements, Properties of View, Structure.

In the center of the Remote View Editor window, the preview area is located.

On the top, click to zoom in and click to zoom out.

Under the zoom elements, the preview area is located. You can:

• Select elements: click on the element you want to select. The element options will be opened in the Properties of-Tab on the right
• Move elements: drag and drop
• Resize elements: drag the button in the bottom right corner area
• Assign elements to panels: drag the element to a free position in the inner of a panel

To change a color, go to the Properties of- Tab and click the color field of the desired color. The color window opens.

The color window with color picker

To choose a predefined or user defined color, click on the predefined or user defined color field and click OK.

To use a user-defined color or define a new user defined color, click define colors » / Farben Definieren ». The color picker opens. Choose a color by clicking or drag & drop the color wheel or enter the color values directly. When you have the right color, click Add colors / Farben Hinzufügen. The color will be added to the first user-defined color field. When adding a second value, the second field will be used and so on. If you want to change or enter to a specific field directly, click inside the user defined field you want to use, select your color and click Add colors / Farben Hinzufügen.

Possible parameters using colors are described below.

In the Elements tab, all available elements are listed. Elements are grouped by the mixers containing it. Click the + icon besides the mixer node to expand it. Now you see all modules assigned to this virtual mixer and all TFT views on the device. You can expand those nodes to see the single elements.

To add elements, just drag the entry in the “All Elements” list on the right to the View Layout Configuration area.

You can add a single element by dragging and dropping. A single element is not a node in the All Elements- ist.

You can drag and drop single elements inside a Panel element. The elements will then be grouped. When moving the panel, the elements it contains will also be moved.

You can add whole modules (MX/RX/SX-Modules). Drag and drop the module node (e.g. 52-2029) to the View Layout Configuration area. The module elements will automatically be grouped and built like the physical layout.

You can add whole console layouts as built in TB8 Configuration. Drag and drop the mixer node in an empty remote view creation area.

The Properties of … tab changes depending on the element selected.

You can set general options of the view. Click the View you want to edit in the Userdefined Views Area on the left. The Tab changes to Properties of view.

You can set the following options:

• Label section
  • Text: Change the Name of the View
  • Position: Set position of the Text inside the view element
• Font section: Not available
• Size section
  • Width: Change the width of the view area
  • Height: Change the height of the view area
  • Autosize: Automatically size the view area, depending on free spaces on the right and on the bottom
• Colors: Define a background-color of the view-area
• Background-Picture section
  • Select: Select a picture as the view area background. Must be a *.JPG or *.JPEG file and have a maximum resolution of 3840×2160 pixels or less
  • Clear Picture: Remove the background picture

Change options of a panel / colored area element.

You can set the following options:

• Label section
  • Text: Change the Name of the View
  • Position: Set position of the Text inside the view element
• Font section: Change Font-Size of defined Text
• Colors: Define a background-color of the colored area/panel
• Style: Select different displaying-styles of the colored area/panel

Change options of a Fader element.

You can set the following options:

• Colors section:
  • Backtground: Define a background-color of the Fader-Element
  • Scala & Text: Define color of scala and font
  • Fader Knob: Define color of the fader-knobs shadow (no preview available)

Change options of a Key element.

You can set the following options:

• Label section
  • Text: Change the Name of the View
  • Position: Set position of the Text inside the view element
• Font section: Change Font-Size of defined Text
• Colors section
  • Text: Define text-color
  • Off-Color: Define background color when key is inactive/off

• Override Button Function section
  • New Function
    • (no override): original key function as defined in TB8-Configuration
    • Access Input / DSP: opens DSP control in a new window. State of console button will not be changed, the state of console button will be shown.

Change options of a Key element.

You can set the following options:

• Colors section
  • Rocker Color: Define color of up/down elements
  • Button Color: Define color of encoder button in the center

Change options for the Analogue Clock element.

You can set the following options:

• Font section: Change Font-Size of the time displayed
• Colors section
  • Background-Color: Define background color
  • Foreground-Color: Define color of current time, date and past seconds on the clock face
  • Clock Face: Define color of clock face
  • Seconds Remaining: Define color of seconds remaining on the clock face
• clock weekday text: Change the naming of the weekdays displayed. Double click the word in your abbreviation column to edit.

Change options for the History R128 element.

You can set the following options:

• Font section: Change Font-Size of the element displayed
• Colors section
  • Background Color: Define background color
  • Font Color: Define font color. The scale color is also defined in the font color.
  • Short Color ⇐ 0 LU: Define color of the graph below and at 0 LU/LUFS
  • Short Color > 0 LU: Define color of the graph above 0 LU/LUFS
  • Momentary Color ⇐ 0 LU: Define color of the graph below and at 0 LU/LUFS
  • Momentary Color > 0 LU: Define color of the graph above 0 LU/LUFS
• Type of R128 Scale: Select the type of displayed R128 metering scale. For more information on R128 metering see TB8 / Level Detects
• time region: Set the time range the element records
• Show “Short”: Set the display type of the short graph
• Show “Momentary”: Set the display type of the momentary graph
• Transparency for “Short”: Set the transparency of the short graph. Recommended for overlapping or display of multiple elements.
• Transparency for “Momentary”: Set the transparency of the momentary graph. Recommended for overlapping or display of multiple elements.
• Start zoomed time range: Set the displayed time range when opening the view. Does not affect measurement.

Change options for the PPM element.

You can set the following options:

• Font section: Change Font-Size of the time displayed
• Colors section
  • Background Color: Define background color
  • Font Color: Define font color
  • Level ⇐ 0dB Color: Define color of the meter bar below and at 0 dB
  • Level > 0dB Color: Define color of the meter above 0 dB
• Scale bar option
  • Red bar over (dB): Define the value which the bar turns red when above (defined in Level > 0dB Color and Level ⇐ 0dB Color
  • Zero offset (dB): Define an offset of the zero level (only for display)
  • Reset to Global Option: Reset to the global default. Default can be defined in: Global Options / Remote View Settings
• Type of Scale: Select the type of displayed PPM scale. For more information on metering see TB8 / Level Detects

Change options for the R128 meter element.

You can set the following options:

• Font section: Change Font-Size of the time displayed
• Colors section
  • Background Color: Define background color
  • Font Color: Define font color
  • Level ⇐ 0 LU Color: Define color of the meter bar below and at 0 LU/LUFS
  • Level > 0 LU Color: Define color of the meter above 0 LU/LUFS
• Type of R128 Scale: Select the type of displayed R128 metering scale. For more information on R128 metering see TB8 / Level Detects

The Structure tab shows a tree that includes all areas (this could be a fader strip for instance) of the currently selected view. If you expand the branches of this tree, you will see which elements are assigned to the several areas. Elements that are not grouped are listed apart.