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 SDI Interface instrument has access to the 3G-SDI deembedder interface (option) and the audio streams included in SDI data streams and displays its state on the screen. The interface automatically detects the validity of the applied stream, the frequency (SD/HD/3G) and the contained formats. Audio channels contained in valid audio groups are then deembedded. If single link mode (SD/HD/3G) was used, up to 4 audio groups with 4 audio channels each are available. If dual link mode (3G) was used, up to 8 audio groups with 4 audio channels each are available. With SDI selected as input source, the input routing menu provides these audio channels. Normally, the audio channels contain AES3 signals. Different parameters (e. g. status bytes, audio bit activity) of the routed signals additionally can be monitored with the AES Status instrument. A total of 32 channels can be displayed on the TouchMonitor.
For this instrument there are no function keys available.
The right (lower) section of the Control Bar always contains the following four keys: