TouchMonitor Help | Display Mode - AES Status Instrument

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.

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.

The status monitor (AES Status) displays the status bytes of AES3 audio signals as plain text or as binary data. In addition to this it also displays a range of signal status information, including Confidence, Lock, Coding, Parity and activity, which is useful when you need to determine the word width or identify defective bits in the data stream.

Control Bar - left (upper) section: AES Status instrument functions

With the AES Status instrument in focus, the left (upper) section of the Control Bar may contain any or all of the keys described below.

Using the "Configure Keys" option in the AES Status Menu, any key available for the AES Status instrument may be removed from the Control Bar. Only keys set to "On" (default) in the Control Bar section of the "AES Status Key Settings" menu are available in normal display mode with the AES Status instrument in focus.

If more than six keys have been activated, they will be placed on two layers. To toggle between the layers, please use key "More" being displayed on each layer.

This key is only available in "Audio" display mode. If selected, the AES Status instrument will show the active audio bits of the digital signal source.

This key is only available in "Audio" display mode. If selected, the AES Status instrument will show the bit pattern of the digital audio data.

This key is only available in "Channel Status" and "Channel Binary" display modes. It is used to switch the display to the next audio channel. In this way, all audio channels defined in the audio group the instrument belongs to can be displayed one by one.

This key is only available in "Channel Status" and "Channel Binary" display modes. It is used to switch the display to the previous audio channel. In this way, all audio channels defined in the audio group the instrument belongs to can be displayed one by one.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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