TouchMonitor Help | Display Mode - Global Keyboard 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 Global Keyboard instrument can be set to contain up to 10 keys that can be used in various ways.

Each Global Keyboard key set to "Instrument" mode can control functions of several instruments even if they are placed in different Audio Groups. For example, the "Start", "Stop" and "Reset" functions of a Loudness Sum instrument, a LRA instrument and a Radar instrument could be controlled by one set of Start, Stop and Reset keys in the Global Keyboard instead of creating separate keyboards for every single instrument. Also, using the Global Keyboard, instrument keys can be controlled externally using the TouchMonitor's GPIO interface.

Alternatively, each Global Keyboard key set to "Preset" mode can be configured to load a new preset.

Control Bar - left (upper) section: Global Keyboard instrument functions

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: Global Keyboard instrument functions
	Control Bar - right (lower) section